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So he requested to have the tonic strong, and he took one glass of it over the counter. Fifteen minutes after the draught, he came in sight of his house, and beholding it, he could have called it a gentlemanly residence aloud under Lady Camper's windows, his insurgency was of such violence.
Lady Camper's return was the subject of speculation in the neighbourhood, for most people thought she would cease to persecute the General with her preposterous and unwarrantable pen-and-ink sketches when living so closely proximate; and how he would behave was the question. Those who made a hero of him were sure he would treat her with disdain. Others were uncertain.
'To Lady Camper's eye. He admitted it might be that. He had not thought of ascribing the acuteness of his pain to the miserable image he presented in this particular lady's eye.
Mr. Pollington and certain City gentlemen hearing the poor General's renewed soliloquies, were seized with disgust of Lady Camper's conduct, and stoutly advised an application to the Law Courts. Barcop on the weather, and replying in acquiescence: 'It is hot. If your ladyship will only abstain from colours.
Here indeed is the tree lover's paradise. Here you will find primeval woods with decayed leaves and plants underneath, almost a foot in thickness. The massed foliage at noon let in the light in shimmering patches of sunshine and shade, making squares and angles like a Persian rug with flower and fern designs. Here weary travelers may find a camper's heaven.
Lady Camper's brows showed a trifling bewilderment. 'I am speaking of these young people, General Ople. 'I consent to everything beforehand, my dear lady. He should be, I say Mr. Rolles should be provided for. 'So should she, General, so should Elizabeth. 'She shall be, she will, dear madam. What I have, with your permission, if good heaven! Lady Camper, I scarcely know where I am.
So he requested to have the tonic strong, and he took one glass of it over the counter. Fifteen minutes after the draught, he came in sight of his house, and beholding it, he could have called it a gentlemanly residence aloud under Lady Camper's windows, his insurgency was of such violence.
Mr. Pollington and certain City gentlemen hearing the poor General's renewed soliloquies, were seized with disgust of Lady Camper's conduct, and stoutly advised an application to the Law Courts. Barcop on the weather, and replying in acquiescence: 'It is hot. If your ladyship will only abstain from colours.
It was Tom Osby, who came and sat down by the fire, poking tobacco into his pipe with a crooked finger, and smoking on with no glance at the recumbent figure on the camper's bed. Yet the outdoor sense of Tom Osby told him that his companion was not asleep.
'Then I must look to the General to restore it. General Ople immediately bowed his head over Lady Camper's fingers. 'An odd thing to happen to a woman of forty-one! she said to her great people, and they submitted with the best grace in the world, while the General's ears tingled till he felt younger than Reginald.
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