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As to the rector, if his suit to Fanny were a fault against Mr. Clavering as Fanny's father, that fault had been already committed. But Mr. Saul would not admit himself that it was a fault. I fancy that he considered himself to have, as a gentleman, a right to address himself to any lady with whom he was thrown into close contact.
Fanny's called several times, but she doesn't care to keep it up. Neither, to tell the honest truth, do I.... Why?" Sir John was twinkling at him in his exasperating way. "Why? Because, my dear fellow, the woman's going about everywhere saying she's given you up." "I don't care," said Mr. Waddington, "what she says. Quite immaterial to me." "You mayn't care, but your friends do, Waddington."
Fanny's spirits lived on it half the morning, deriving some accession of pleasure from its writer being himself to go away.
He bore them to the "greener" in over-brimming palms and the foreigner, unconscious how much he owed to the felicitous coincidence of his visit with Fanny's betrothal, saw fortune visibly within his grasp. He went out, his heart bursting with gratitude, his pocket with four dozen farthings. They took him in and gave him hot soup at a Poor Jews' Shelter, whither his townsman had directed him.
Diana was thinking of moments recalling forgotten fragments of dialogue in the past, which showed her father's opinion of his Barbadoes brother-in-law: "A grasping, ill-bred fellow" "neither gratitude, nor delicacy" "has been the evil genius of his wife, and will be the ruin of his children." She did not believe a word of Fanny's story not a word of it! She turned impetuously.
Polly whispered to Lois, and raised her left hand above her head. But the Fenwick side center intercepted Fanny's pass and, before they knew it, the ball was down at the other end. Evelin failed to guard her forward and, after a high toss, the ball fell into the basket. Dorothy Mead, as official score keeper, drew a 2 slowly on the blackboard.
It would be sunk into a badge of disgrace; for what can be more unbecoming, or more worthless, than the uniform of a lieutenant, who has been a lieutenant a year or two, and sees others made commanders before him? So reasoned Edmund, till his father made him the confidant of a scheme which placed Fanny's chance of seeing the second lieutenant of H.M.S. Thrush in all his glory in another light.
The responsibilities, as well as the honour, due to the mistress of the house, were Fanny's. These could not, she being in health and able to bear them, be assumed by her sister without mutual injury. The honour and responsibility could not be separated without danger and loss.
It was settled that Crawford should cross to Glasgow at once and buy her; the steamer, when bought, was to go from Belfast to Llandudno, where she would pick up Crawford on the sands, and proceed to keep the rendezvous with Agnew at the Tuskar Light on Friday; and, after taking over the Fanny's cargo, would then steam boldly up Belfast Lough and through the Musgrave Channel to the Belfast docks, where he undertook to arrive on the Friday week, the 24th of April, the various proposals which named Larne, Bangor, and Donaghadee as ports of discharge having all been rejected after full discussion.
I suppose it will hold all the knowledge you will want to have put into your head for some time to come. Now show me which is George's desk, and which Fanny's; and now Mary's, a nice row of desks! Now," whispering to her, "can you show me which is Miss Margaret's desk?" The little girl giggled as she answered, that Miss Margaret was too old to be a school-girl.
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