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The commons were not overawed by the magisterial air of the king's speech. They consisted almost entirely of the same members; they chose the same speaker; and they instantly fell into the same measures, the impeachment of Danby, the repeal of the persecuting statute of Elizabeth, the inquiry into the Popish plot, and the bill of exclusion.
I warn you: or, if you like the phrase better, don't, for the sake of me and mine. 'Yours, fellow! Your wife, whom you have so long held in cruel bondage through her fears for her son, has at last shaken off that chain. James Harper sailed two days ago from Portsmouth for Bombay. I sent her the news two hours since. 'Ha! Is that indeed so? cried Danby, with an irrepressible start of alarm.
Kirby, the ex-dragoon, was scowling at the fellow, who lay upon a little settee reading the newspaper, with an evident desire to kill him. Mrs. Kirby, his wife, held little Danby, poor Dixon's son and heir. Dixon's portrait smiled over the sideboard still, and his wife was up stairs in an agony of fear, with the poor little daughters of this bankrupt, broken family.
He nodded and smiled at them, gave his son a push toward Dexter, and returned to where Lady Danby was seated, with her brow all in wrinkles. "They will soon make friends," said Sir James. "It's Grayson's whim, of course, and really, my dear, this seems to be a decent sort of boy. Very rough, of course, but Eddy will give him polish.
A man feels the need of some relaxation after a four years' bore, and there is nothing like the society of the weaker sex to give the mind repose." "Shocking boy!" said the fond mother with a smile. In a short time the projected call was made. "You will frighten her with all that finery, my handsome mother," remarked Danby as they walked to the carriage.
I know when anybody likes me, and when anybody doesn't. Lady Danby didn't like me, and she give a sneery laugh when she called me a protege, and when you weren't looking that chap made an offer at me with the black cane he carried, that one with a silver top and black tassels." "Did he?" "Didn't he just! I only wish he had. I'd ha' given him such a oner.
If a hundred Sir Jameses had been shouting it would not have stayed Dexter, for he had only one idea in his head just then, and that was to get away. "Put down Master Edgar, and go and fetch that boy back." "Carefully! Oh, pray, put him down carefully," cried Lady Danby passionately. Just then Master Edgar uttered a fresh cry, and his mother wailed loudly.
Colonel Danby reflected that whatever his companion might be, she was not amusing. 'Have you noticed the gentleman opposite? he inquired, stifling another yawn. Lucy timidly looked across. 'It is it is the Dean of Bradford, isn't it? 'Yes; it's a comfort, isn't it, when one can know a man by his clothes! Do you see what his deanship has had for dinner?
He had been drawn, by accompanying his mother in her farewell visits, once more within the vortex of society, and his manly independence and energy, his knowledge of what was to his companions a new world, and his spirit-stirring descriptions of its varied beauty and inexhaustible fertility, made him more the fashion than he had ever been. He had often met Caroline Danby now Mrs.
"What about Lucretia?" asked Danby, with the air of an established friendship which permitted the asking of such questions. "She's ready to the minute," replied Porter. "Can she get the five furlongs?" queried Danby. "She's by Assassin, and some of them were quitters." "She'll quit if she falls dead," replied the other man, quietly. "I've worked her good enough to win, and I'm backing her."
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