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'Oh, I never heard anything more charming than your introduction! I beg your pardon, but I laughed last evening till I was worn out, and waked in the night laughing again. It was exhilarating to find that any one laughed at Bayford, and Albinia partook of the mirth with all her heart. 'Never was an address more gratifying to me! she said. 'It was like him! so unlike Bayford!
To poor Miss Lucilla this was a new and alarming feature in the situation. If it was so, then Marion Grimston ought not to be allowed to marry him. If Diane was right and she must be right Mrs. Bayford was mistakenly urging on a match that would bring unhappiness to her niece.
There had been some uncertainty as to the time of his sailing, and Fairmead and Bayford had been told that unless their travellers arrived by the last reasonable train on Friday, they were not to be expected till the same time on Saturday, Maurice having concocted a scheme for crossing by several junction lines, so as to save waiting; but they had not reckoned on the discourtesies of two rival companies whose lines met at the same station, and the southern train was only in time to hear the parting snort of the engine that it professed to catch.
O'More at the bank rather than Andrew Goldsmith. 'Ah! said Genevieve, 'it is he who wants to pull down our dear old house. I shall quarrel with him. 'Genevieve making common cause with the obstructives of Bayford, as if he had not enemies enough! 'What's that light in the sky? exclaimed Sophy, starting up to speak to her father on the driving seat. 'A bonfire, said Mr. Kendal.
The Bayford mind was diverted from the romance of Genevieve, by the enormous fortune of the Vicar's nephew, whose capital was in their mouths and imaginations swelled into his yearly income. Swarms of cards of inquiry were left at the vicarage; and Mrs. Meadows and Lucy enjoyed the reflected dignity of being able to say that Mrs. Kendal was continually there. And so she was, for Mrs.
There had been so much to say which, in the glamour of that glorious afternoon, was more important that no further time was spent on the topic. Derek forgot the meeting till Mrs. Bayford recalled it to him as he sat beside her in the evening. She was one of those small, ill-shapen women whose infirmities are thrown into more conspicuous relief by dress and jewels and décolletage.
I was bringing George and Fanny from a visit to their aunts, and I was sure it must be Mr. Gilbert. 'As prudent as ever, Genevieve. 'It would not have been right, she said, blushing; 'but it was such a treat to see a Bayford face, that I had nearly sprung out of the waiting-room to speak to him at the first impulse. 'My poor little exile! said Albinia. 'No, that is not my name.
The horse chanced to be lame, so that Gilbert could not be met at Hadminster on his return from Oxford, but much earlier than the omnibus usually lumbered into Bayford, he astonished Sophy, who was lying on the sofa in the morning-room, by marching in with a free and easy step, and a loose coat of the most novel device. 'No one else at home? he asked. 'Only grandmamma.
A youth spent in India had not given him ideas of responsibilities beyond his own family, and his principles, though sound, had not expanded the views of duty with which he had started in life. It was a positive pleasure to Albinia to discover that there had been an inefficient clergyman at Bayford before Mr.
Kendal's, because you would think it so wrong and shameful an abuse of your kindness. 'And that's his whole concern? 'So he told me. 'And what advice did you give him? 'I told him Bayford was bent on gossip, and no one heeded it less than my respected brother and sister. 'That was famous of you, Maurice. I was afraid you would have put it upon his honour and the state of his own heart.
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