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Chillingly from turning Papist. I am sure you have taken time enough to do so." Mr. Emlyn, Protestant every inch of him, slightly recoiled from Kenelm's side. "Do you meditate turning " He could not conclude the sentence. "Be not alarmed, my dear sir. I did but own to Mrs.

When we again meet let me hope you will treat me less unkindly. Adieu!" "Stay, sir. A word or two more. You persist in asking your father and Lady Chillingly to consent to your proposal to Miss Mordaunt?" "Certainly I do."

No finer specimen of muscular Christianity. He fought as well as he wrote; eccentric, it is true, but always a gentleman. Call the boy Kenelm!" "A sweet name," said Miss Sibyl: "it breathes of romance." "Sir Kenelm Chillingly! It sounds well, imposing!" said Miss Margaret. "And," remarked Mr.

Travers tried hard to induce him to stay a few days longer, but Kenelm was firm. "The summer is wearing away," said he, "and I have far to go before the flowers fade and the snows fall. On the third night from this I shall sleep on foreign soil." "You are going abroad, then?" asked Mrs. Campion. "Yes." "A sudden resolution, Mr. Chillingly. The other day you talked of visiting the Scotch lakes."

Nay, sometimes in her presence and sometimes when alone, he fell into abstracted consultations with himself, saying, "Kenelm Chillingly, now that thou hast got back into thy proper skin, dost thou not think that thou hadst better remain there?

Thorpe rapped with his nails on the desk, to point the force of his rejoinder: "How do you account for the fact, my Lord" he gave his words a chillingly scornful precision of utterance "that I distinctly mentioned 400,000 vendor's shares of mine, 100,000 of which I promised to turn over to you? Those were the specific terms, were they not? You don't deny it? Then what are you talking about?"

In spite of her laughter, Cecilia felt a certain awe at the solemnity of voice and manner with which Kenelm delivered these oracular sentences, and the whole prediction seemed strangely in unison with her own impressions of the character whose fate was thus shadowed out. "Are you a fortune-teller, Mr. Chillingly?" she asked, falteringly, and after a pause.

I I, Kenelm Chillingly, to be thus thus " Here, in the midst of his boastful soliloquy, the well-remembered brook rushed suddenly upon eye and ear, gleaming and moaning under the wintry moon. Kenelm Chillingly stopped, covered his face with his hands, and burst into a passion of tears. Recovering himself slowly, he went on along the path, every step of which was haunted by the form of Lily.

Still, every emotion that changes life from a stagnant pool into the freshness and play of a running stream is disquieting to the pool. Not only love and its fellow-passions, such as ambition, but the exercise of the reasoning faculty, which is always at work in changing our ideas, is very disquieting. Love, Mr. Chillingly, has its good side as well as its bad. Pass the bottle."

Girls think more about a man when they see the place which he can offer to them as a home, and Exmundham is an attractive place to girls, picturesque and romantic." "A very good idea," cried Sir Peter, heartily. "And I want also to make the acquaintance of Chillingly Gordon. Give me his address." "Here is his card on the chimney-piece, take it; you will always find him at home till two o'clock.