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Folliard, after the baronet had gone, knew not exactly how to dispose of himself. The truth is, the man's heart was an anomaly a series of contradictions, in which one feeling opposed another for a brief space, and then was obliged to make way for a new prejudice equally transitory and evanescent.
"If I were an American, or something of that sort, I'd go up there again." Being, however, a young Irish baronet, as shy of entanglements with his own kind as he was eager for encounters with wild beasts, he very wisely went his way the next morning, and up to this time has never beheld mountain or maiden again.
"A schoolgirl's darling," growled the injudicious Ajax. "Nothing of the sort," retorted Jim. "I mean," he added, "that Thorpe appeals to er mature women. I know for a fact that the wife of a baronet is head over ears in love with him." "I hope he didn't tell you so," said Ajax. "I should think not. First and last he's a gentleman."
Your father, Sir Richard Fanshawe, Knight and Baronet, one of the Masters of the Requests, Secretary of the Latin Tongue, Burgess for the University of Cambridge, and one of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council of England and Ireland, and his Majesty's Ambassador to Portugal and Spain, was the fifth and youngest son.
I'm not drunk. Shut the door; I want to speak to you." Pitt closed the door and came up to the table, where he sat down in the other arm-chair that one placed for the reception of the steward, agent, or confidential visitor who came to transact business with the Baronet and trimmed his nails more vehemently than ever. "Pitt, it's all over with me," the Colonel said after a pause. "I'm done."
Some such-like lie the baronet might have told, I thought; but when I saw him walk abroad with Margery on his arm, pacing back and forth beneath the oaks and bending low to catch her lightest word with grave and courtly deference that none knew better how to feign, I knew wherefore he stayed knew and raged afresh at my own impotence, and for the thought that Margery was wholly at the mercy of this devil.
The baronet in some after-dinner half-hour had allowed this secret of his youth to escape from him, imprudently. "And I went to the house in Cowcross Street with Lord John Fitzjoly." "The last man in all London with whom you ought to associate! But I am not going to argue with you, sir. If you think, and will continue to think, that the slaughtering of vermin is a proper pursuit "
The year after I came into undisputed possession of my estates, the next heir got a writ issued against me of "de inquirendo lunatico," on the ground of the strange and unworthy manner that I, as a baronet with an immense estate, had lived for those last eighteen years.
To own the truth, while striving to find apologies for it, I had been a little contraire, as the French term it, by the indifference of my Lord Chatterino, which, in my secret heart, I was not slow in attributing to the manner in which a peer of the realm of Leaphigh regarded, de haut en bas, a mere baronet of Great Britain or Great Breeches, as the young noble so pertinaciously insisted on terming our illustrious island.
He had the pebble in his hand, and was in act to toss it, when the baronet, breaking silence for the first time, said: "Mr. Pennroyal, I am willing that this should go no further." "Scoundrel and coward!" snarled the other, his deadly fury breaking in a moment through the thin mockery of courtesy; "come up then, and be shot like the cur you are!" There could be no more words.
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