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Alice felt sure that the thing to be told would have some reference to Mr Fitzgerald, and she did not wish to hear Mr Fitzgerald's name from her cousin's lips. "Tell you something; of course I am. I'm going to tell you that, that in writing to you the other day I wrote a fib. But it wasn't that I wished to deceive you; only I couldn't say it all in a letter." "Say all what?"
"Don't I know about your cousin's return, and his marriage with Mademoiselle d'Aubrion? A woman doesn't carry her wits in her pocket." Eugenie blushed, and remained silent for a moment. From this day forth she assumed the impassible countenance for which her father had been so remarkable.
Shocked, and trembling at so rude an accusation, Miss Beaufort was unable to speak. Lost in wonder, and incensed at his cousin's goodness having been the dupe of imposition. Pembroke stood silent, whilst Lady Dundas took up the subject.
That little cranky old gentleman said the other evening while looking at her, 'Miss Rose, a woman, to be happy, should either have no ambition, or an ambition beyond this world. Do ask Dr. Stokes if that is true." After she had been a little longer in town, Rose saw more clearly the workings of that ambition which had undermined her cousin's happiness.
He may be acting with my cousin's husband, who values him immensely, and wants him in the family." "Is he very rich?" "Disgustingly," said I, as I had said to Lady Kilmarny. "Yet you bolted from a good home, where you had every comfort, rather than be pestered to marry him?"
I request you will instantly remove from our presence; as I have no desire, that my cousin's nerves should be again shocked, by either the recollection of the past, or the recurrence of future attrocities; both of which are entailed by your presence." "For that speech, madam," exclaimed Smithers, "you may thank yourself you wear the female garb, or, by heaven!
Do you suppose that before selecting you as your cousin's husband I had not obtained every possible information about you? And what I have learned need not make you quite so supercilious to the police. Besides, as the vulgar saying is, the best of your nose is made of it.
She proposes, therefore, with your permission, to act as our cousin's cicerone to-morrow morning, in the daytime. Shall we say at eleven o'clock, John?" Canon Birch started nervously, and the doctor frowned at him. "At eleven o'clock," said John, in steady tones; and, as he spoke, Sir Timothy entered the hall. "Some tea, Timothy?" said Lady Mary.
"I've come to congratulate Eva," I said. Mrs. Gunton-Cresswell sighed. "I was afraid of this," she said. "The announcement was the more pleasant," I went on, "because James has been a bosom friend of mine." "I'm afraid you are going to be extremely disagreeable about your cousin's engagement," she said. "I am," I answered her. "Very disagreeable.
Nora, standing by the table, and already pierced with remorse, saw her cousin's large eyes fill with tears. Connie sat down with her face averted. But Nora trembling all over perceived that she was crying. The next moment, the newcomer found Nora kneeling beside her, in the depths of humiliation and repentance. "I am a beast! a horrid beast! I always am. Oh, please, please don't cry!"
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