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"Forgive me, Percy," she said, unable to suppress her tears "forgive me it is past I have no right that you, so superior to myself, should be sacrificed to my my prejudices you would call them so be it. Is it for your wife to condemn you to be inglorious? No no dear Godolphin fulfil your destiny you are born for high objects. Be active be distinguished and I will ask no more!"
Such a sort of behaviour without any glaring absurdity, either in prodigality or avarice, always gains a man the reputation of reasonable and honest; and this was his character when the Earl of Godolphin sent him envoy to the States, not doubting but he would be faithful to his orders, without giving himself the trouble of criticising on them, which is what all ministers wish in an envoy.
Came Nicholas his servant to announce Master Peter Godolphin, and close upon the lackey's heels came Master Godolphin himself, leaning upon his beribboned cane and carrying his broad Spanish hat.
"You will awake hereafter," said Constance, earnestly. Godolphin shook his head, and replied not. Their way now lay along a green lane that gradually wound round a hill commanding a view of great richness and beauty.
We congeal into philosophy; and are we not then wise in adopting this life of isolation and indifference?" Godolphin, wrapt in reflection, scarcely heeded the voluptuary, but Saville continued: he had grown to that height in loneliness that he even loved talking to himself. "Yes, wise! For this world is so filled with the selfish, that he who is not so labours under a disadvantage.
I hope my husband will never write for the worse part." "And I hope I shall never play to it," Godolphin returned, and he looked hurt at the insinuation of her words. "It isn't a question of all that," Maxwell interposed, with a worried glance at his wife. "Mr. Godolphin has merely suggested something that can be taken into the general account; we needn't decide it now.
It is but a mere series of tricks, this art that seems to you so admirable." Godolphin grew embarrassed. There was in him a sort of hidden pride that could never endure to subject itself to the censure of others. He had no propensity to imitation, and he had a strong susceptibility to the ridiculous.
As for the blow, I confess that I deserved it. A man's mother is more sacred than his father. So we may cry quits on that score. Can we not cry quits on all else? What can it profit us to perpetuate a foolish quarrel that sprang up between our fathers?" "There is more than that between us," answered Master Godolphin. "I'll not have my sister wed a pirate." "A pirate? God's light!
It became the aim of both ministers to ruin each other. The Queen now secretly sided with the Tories, although she had not the courage to quarrel openly with her powerful ministers, or with her former favorite. Nor was "the great breach" made public. But the angry and disappointed Duchess gave vent to her wrath and vengeance in letters to her husband and in speech to Godolphin.
But how can you, Godolphin, with your talents, fritter away life on these baubles?" "You are civil," said Godolphin, impatiently. "Allow me to tell you that it is your objects I consider baubles. Your dull, plodding, wearisome honours; a name in the newspapers a place, perhaps, in the Ministry purchased by a sacrificed youth and a degraded manhood a youth in labour, a manhood in schemes.
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