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Come and sit by me, Miss Campion, and tell me all about yourself. I want to know how you first came to think of literature as a profession?" This was not the way in which people talked at Angleford. Lettice felt posed for a moment, and then a sense of humor came happily to her relief. "I drifted into it, I am afraid," she answered, composedly. "Drifted? No, I am sure you would never drift.
The broad repetition of the yellow clover is not to be written; acre upon acre, and not one spot of green, as if all the green had been planed away, leaving only the flowers to which the bees come by the thousand from far and near. But one white campion stands in the midst of the lake of yellow. The field is scented as though a hundred hives of honey had been emptied on it.
"I beg pardon," answered a voice behind the urn. They have shut him out. I will be back presently." Cecilia rose and was gone. Mrs. Campion took her place at the tea-urn. "It is quite absurd of Cissy to be so fond of that hideous dog," said Travers, petulantly. "Its hideousness is its beauty," returned Mrs. Campion, laughing. "Mr.
He was still some distance off; but it was possible to make out that he was sallowish in complexion, wore a trimmed beard, and had something of a long throat. Father Campion stared at him a moment, and, as he stared, Marjorie heard Mr. Babington utter a sudden exclamation.
"Your learning is of so shining a quality," quoth Sir Mortimer, with courteous emphasis, "that here and there a flaw cannot mar its curious worth. Smerwick Fort lies in Ireland, señor, not in England. Though verily the best thing I know of Edmund Campion is the courageousness of his end; yet indeed he died not with a halo about his head, nor were miracles wrought with his blood.
Miss Campion, forgive me for speaking so roughly. I ask most earnestly for your friendship and your sympathy; will you not give me these?" Lettice moved onward towards the door. "Do you think that we ought to discuss our personal concerns in such a place as this?" she asked, evading the question in a thoroughly feminine manner. "Why not? But if not here, then in another place.
I must wish you good-morning, madam! but let me impress upon you again, before you go, that he is to be kept perfectly quiet, free from anxiety, and as cheerful as you can manage to make him." Captain Haynes was rather ashamed of the laxity into which Miss Campion had drawn him. He was not accustomed to display so much sympathy with his prisoners, whatever he may have felt in his own mind.
Fulke was in an evil temper, since it was common talk that Campion had had the best of the argument on the eighteenth.
So frozen and hard it seemed to her, that she could not bring herself to acknowledge that certain words spoken to her husband by the stranger had had any effect on her at all. In the old days, as she said to herself, they would have hurt her terribly. "You cruelly deserted her because you wanted to marry a rich woman." She, Nan, was the rich woman for whom Sydney Campion had deserted another.
Campion, one of his domestics, whom he had left at Paris to mind his affairs at Court, told me these particulars by the Count's express orders, and I still remember this passage in one of his letters to Campion: "The men you know are very urgent with me to treat with the enemy, and accuse me of weakness because I fear the examples of Charles de Bourbon and Robert d'Artois."
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