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All this he did without a scruple of conscience; but then he never contrived active villainy. In this affair of his marriage it had been represented to him as a matter of duty that he ought to put himself in possession of Mrs. Bold's hand and fortune, and at first he had so regarded it. About her he had thought but little.
A Flemish chronicler, a monk at Egmont, describes the character of Philip the Bold's successor in the following words: "A certain King of France, also named Philip, eaten up by the fever of avarice and cupidity." And that was not the only fever inherent in Philip IV., called The Handsome; he was a prey also to that of ambition, and, above all, to that of power.
But I was told that such was not his wish, and he certainly left me with the impression that I had been told the truth." "Well!" said Eleanor, now sufficiently roused on the matter. "I hear Miss Bold's step," said Mr. Slope; "would it be asking too great a favour to beg you to I know you can manage anything with Miss Bold."
Now his diffidence was to be rewarded by his seeing this woman, whose beauty was to his eyes perfect, whose wealth was such as to have deterred him from thinking of her, whose widowhood would have silenced him had he not been so deterred, by his seeing her become the prey of Obadiah Slope! On the morning of Mrs. Bold's departure he got on his horse to ride over to St. Ewold's.
Mrs Bold and my father are the last roses in the very delightful summer you have given us, and desirable as Mrs Bold's society always is, now at least you must be glad to see the last flowers plucked from the tree.
'Do you want any one to stay with you! asked Lance. 'If Cherry would do for Felix said he would take Fulbert and me out for a jolly long walk, to see the icicles at Bold's Hatch. 'No, I want no one. You are better without me. 'I'll stay if you do want it, said Lance, very reluctantly. 'I don't like your not having one bit of Christmas.
That all-powerful organ of the press, the daily Jupiter, launched a leading thunderbolt against the administration of Hiram's Hospital, which made out the warden to be a man unjust, grasping and the responsibility for this attack rested upon John Bold's friend Tom Towers, of the Temple. Bold kept away from the warden's house, but he met Miss Harding one day in the cathedral close.
"Oh yes, the master of the place; the man who takes all the money and does nothing," said Tom Towers, interrupting him. "Well, I don't know about that; but his conduct in the matter has been so excellent, so little selfish, so open, that I cannot proceed in the matter to his detriment." Bold's heart misgave him as to Eleanor as he said this; and yet he felt that what he said was not untrue.
That Eleanor Harding should appeal, on behalf of her father, to Bold's better feelings seemed to Mary quite natural; it seemed quite natural that he should relent, overcome by such filial tears, and by so much beauty; but, to her thinking, it was at any rate equally natural, that having relented, John should put his arm round his mistress's waist, and say: "Now having settled that, let us be man and wife, and all will end happily!"
She handed me his love letter to read as though she were proud of it. And she is proud of it. She is proud of having this slavering, greedy man at her feet. She will throw herself and John Bold's money into his lap; she will ruin her boy, disgrace her father and you, and be a wretched miserable woman.
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