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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.
In his heart he thoroughly appreciated the moral beauty of Lady Camper's extreme solicitude on behalf of his daughter's provision; but he would have desired a postponement of that and other material questions belonging to a distant future until his own fate was decided. So he said: 'Your ladyship's generosity is very marked. I say it is very marked.
Once a day his walk for constitutional exercise compelled him to pass before Lady Camper's windows, which were not bashfully withdrawn, as he said humorously of Douro Lodge, in the seclusion of half-pay, but bowed out imperiously, militarily, like a generalissimo on horseback, and had full command of the road and levels up to the swelling park-foliage.
Lady Camper's 'adieu' was perfectly beautiful a kind, cordial, intimate, above all, to satisfy his present craving, it was a lady-like adieu the adieu of a delicate and elegant woman, who had hardly left her anchorage by forty to sail into the fifties. Alas! he had her word for it, that she was not less than seventy.
Rolf drew his pistol, fired, then hung the headless body while he made a camper's blaze: an oatcake, the partridge, and river water were his meal. His impulse was to go on at once. His reason, said "go slow." So he waited for fifteen minutes. Then again, beginning with a slow walk, he ere long added to his pace.
'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.
Just then the long mourn of a timber wolf wailed in with the wind. Seldom had he heard the cry of one of those night wanderers. There was nothing like it no sound like it to fix in the lone camper's heart the great solitude and the wild. In the early morning when all was gray and the big, dark pines were shadowy specters, Slone was awakened by the cold.
I say, she hasn't an idea of my sufferings. General Ople delivered his card at Lady Camper's lodgegates and escaped to his residence in a state of prickly heat that required the brushing of his hair with hard brushes for several minutes to comfort and re-establish him.
'To a beautiful valley; and there we met.... 'Her ladyship? 'Yes. 'She always admires you on horseback. 'So you know it, papa, if she should speak of it. 'And I am bound to tell you, my child, said the General, 'that this morning Lady Camper's manner to me was... if I were a fool... I say, this morning I beat a retreat, but apparently she... I see no way out of it, supposing she...
Lady Camper's 'adieu' was perfectly beautiful a kind, cordial, intimate, above all, to satisfy his present craving, it was a lady-like adieu the adieu of a delicate and elegant woman, who had hardly left her anchorage by forty to sail into the fifties. Alas! he had her word for it, that she was not less than seventy.
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