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She called him 'dear old fellow, and questioned him of his fondness for her, warning him not to be faithless ever to the mistress who loved him. Was not her old Wayland as good a protector as the footman Mrs. Adister pressed her to have at her heels? That he was! Captain Con's behaviour grieved her. And it certainly revived an ancient accusation against his countrymen.
Air had always brought him round; now he could feel he was embarked for recovery: and he told her how the farmer and one of his men had lent a shoulder to present him to his old and surest physician rather like a crippled ghost. M. Adister was upstairs in bed with one of her headaches. Captain Con, then, was attending her, Jane supposed: She spoke of him as the most devoted of husbands.
'By committing the business to you, I fancy I perceive your daughter's disposition to consider your feelings: possibly to a reluctance to do the deed unsanctioned by her father. It would appear so to a cool observer, notwithstanding her inattention to your remonstrances. The reply was: 'Dine here and sleep here. I shall be having more of these letters, Mr. Adister added, profoundly sighing.
Men of the Adister family having taken to themselves brides of a very dusty pedigree from the Principality, there were curious rough heirlooms to be seen about the house, shields on the armoury walls and hunting- horns, and drinking-horns, and spears, and chain-belts bearing clasps of heads of beasts; old gold ornaments, torques, blue-stone necklaces, under glass-cases, were in the library; huge rings that must have given the wearers fearful fists; a shirt of coarse linen with a pale brown spot on the breast, like a fallen beech-leaf; and many sealed parchment-skins, very precious, for an inspection of which, as Patrick was bidden to understand, History humbly knocked at the Earlsfont hall-doors; and the proud muse made her transcripts of them kneeling.
Her uncle's attentiveness incited her to describe the scene, and as it visibly relieved his melancholy, she did it with a few vivid indications of the quaint young Irishman's manner of speech. She concluded: 'At last he begged to see a portrait of her husband. 'Not of her? said Mr. Adister abruptly. 'No; only of her husband. 'Show him her portrait.
Adiante had been to him something beyond a creature beloved; she had with her glorious beauty and great-heartedness been the sole object which had ever inspirited his imagination. He could have thought no man, not the most illustrious, worthy of her. And there she was, voluntarily in the hands of a monster! 'Husband! Mr. Adister broke away from Caroline, muttering: 'Her husband's policy!
Adister: 'I have hardly excused myself to you, madam. Her head was aloft in dumb apostrophe of wearifulness over another of her husband's topics. 'Do not excuse yourself at all, she said. The captain shivered.
He was near to being a permanent cripple from that fall. My brother Edward had one like it in his youth. Soldiers are desperate creatures. 'I think Mr. Adister had his fall when hunting, was it not? said Jane. 'Hunting, my dear. That was rather different from a fall on duty before the enemy, incurred by severe exhaustion after sunstroke!...
She communicated it:'The Princess Nikolas has a son! Captain Con tossed his newspaper to the floor, crying: 'To-day the city'll be a chimney on fire, with the blacks in everybody's faces; but I must go down. It's hen and chicks with the director of a City Company. I must go. Did you say, madam? Patrick inquired. 'A son, said Mrs. Adister.
Adister with features which were the acutest critical summary of the discord caused toll to be paid instantly, and they beheld a flashing of white teeth and heard Italian accents. The monkey saluted militarily, but with painful suggestions of his foregone drilling in the ceremony. 'We are safe nowhere from these intrusions, Mrs.
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