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The peculiarity of Beauchamp was that he knew the slenderness of the thread which was leading him, and foresaw it twisting to a coil unless he should hold firm.
'Yes, yes, I've heard, said Colonel Halkett hastily. He would have liked to be informed of Dr. Shrapnel's particular offence: he mentioned the execrable letter. Mr. Romfrey complacently interjected: 'Drug-vomit! and after an interval: 'Gallows! 'That man has done Nevil Beauchamp a world of mischief, Romfrey. 'We'll hope for a cure, colonel. 'Did the man come across you? 'He did. Mr.
He seemed to be praising an unknown person some gentleman who was rough, but of solid promise and singular strength of character. The house-bell rang. Believing that Beauchamp had now come, she showed a painful ridging of the brows, and Mr. Austin considerately mentioned the name of the person he had in his mind. She readily agreed with him regarding Mr.
Romfrey, with a whimsical shrewd cast of the eye at Beauchamp, who stood alert not to be foiled, arrow-like in look and readiness to repeat his home-shot. Mr. Romfrey wanted to hear more of that unintelligible 'You! of Beauchamp's. But Stukely Culbrett intended that the latter should be foiled, and he continued his diversion from the angry subject. 'We'll drop the sacerdotals, he said.
I shall be extremely glad to have some of your observations upon the places to which you go; but if that takes up too much time, I shall be contented to know that you are not any more within pistol-shot. Lord Beauchamp trains on well, as they say, but il n'a pas le moyen de plaire. J'en suis veritablement touche. Adieu, my dear Lord, pour aujourd'hui.
'Wait, only wait; you will see I am right, he said, and prudently said no more, and did not ask her to speak. She was glad that she had sought the reconciliation from her heart's natural warmth, on hearing some time later that M. de Croisnel was dead, and that Beauchamp meditated starting for France to console his Renee.
Wriothesley's invitation. "It's a thing you will have to do some time or other, Lady Mary," observed Mr. Cottrell, "unless you are setting up as an 'eccentric. By-the-bye, Miss Sylla, of course you will see Beauchamp at Prince's. Tell him I have heard of a park hack worth his looking at. He was wanting one the other day." That settled the question.
Elizabeth Beauchamp, respecting her for her constitutional health and brightness, and regretting for the sake of the country that she had not married to give England men and women resembling her. On the whole he considered her wiser in her prescription for the malady besetting him than his uncle. He knew that action was but a temporary remedy.
They jogged soberly along some couple of miles, when Blanche exclaimed gaily, "Who is for the short cut home? 'Let all who love me follow me." And, putting King Cole at the small fence that bordered the road, she jumped into the big grass-field on the other side. Lionel Beauchamp and Laura Chipchase followed promptly; but Jim, who was a little in advance, said quietly,
The exceeding pallor of Beauchamp's face haunted her in her room. She heard the controversy proceeding below, and an exclamation of Blackburn Tuckham's: 'Immorality of meat-eating? What nonsense are they up to now? Beauchamp was inaudible, save in a word or two. As usual, he was the solitary minority. But how mournfully changed he was!
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