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Lady Everingham is one of their set. I don't know what it is exactly; but I think we shall hear more of it. 'A sort of animal magnetism, or unknown tongues, I take it from your description, said his companion. 'Well, I don't know what it is, said Mr. Melton; 'but it has got hold of all the young fellows who have just come out. Beau is a little bit himself.
Their host cantered by the Duchess's side, and along winding roads of easy ascent, leading through beautiful woods, and offering charming landscapes, they reached in due time the Upper Park. 'One sees our host to great advantage in his own house, said Lady Everingham. 'He is scarcely the same person. I have not observed him once blush. He speaks and moves with ease.
Sometimes the countenance of Theresa Sydney flitted over his musing vision; sometimes the merry voice of Lady Everingham haunted his ear. But to be their companion in ride or ramble; to avoid any arrangement which for many hours should deprive him of their presence; was every day with Coningsby a principal object.
Nothing could be more grateful to her; and she was on the point of giving him an approving look, when it was all frightened off by his adding a something too pointed of his hoping soon to have an assistant, a friend, a guide in every plan of utility or charity for Everingham: a somebody that would make Everingham and all about it a dearer object than it had ever been yet.
It was the last day of July, and all the world were at a breakfast given, at a fanciful cottage situate in beautiful gardens on the banks of the Thames, by Lady Everingham.
'I must say, said his Grace, 'that I for one deeply regret that our popular customs have been permitted to fall so into desuetude. 'The Spirit of the Age is against such things, said Lord Everingham. 'And what is the Spirit of the Age? asked Coningsby. 'The Spirit of Utility, said Lord Everingham. 'And you think then that ceremony is not useful? urged Coningsby, mildly.
Its natural beauties, I am sure, are great. Everingham, as it used to be, was perfect in my estimation: such a happy fall of ground, and such timber! What would I not give to see it again?" "Nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it," was his answer; "but I fear there would be some disappointment: you would not find it equal to your present ideas.
The season and duties which brought Mr. Bertram back to Mansfield took Mr. Crawford into Norfolk. Everingham could not do without him in the beginning of September.
"Excessively; but what with the natural advantages of the ground, which pointed out, even to a very young eye, what little remained to be done, and my own consequent resolutions, I had not been of age three months before Everingham was all that it is now. My plan was laid at Westminster, a little altered, perhaps, at Cambridge, and at one-and-twenty executed. I am inclined to envy Mr.
When Coningsby entered the drawing-room, there seemed a somewhat unusual bustle in the room, but as the twilight had descended, it was at first rather difficult to distinguish who was present. He soon perceived that there were strangers. A gentleman of pleasing appearance was near a sofa on which the Duchess and Lady Everingham were seated, and discoursing with some volubility.
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