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Made myself fine with Captain Ferrers's lace band, being lothe to wear my own new scallop, it is so fine; and, after the barber had done with us, to church, where I saw most of the gentry of the parish; among others, Mrs. Hanbury, a proper lady, and Mr. Bernard and his Lady, with her father, my late Lord St. John, who looks now like a very plain grave man. Mr.
It was true: Even Aunt Mary's enemies, and she had some, could not accuse her of the weakness of flattery. So Mrs. Hanbury smiled, and dropped the subject. We have the word of Mr. Cyrus Meeker that Honora did not have to learn to dance. The art came to her naturally. Of Mr.
Don't let our wives starve!" the voices began again, and it was some time before it became possible for the speaker to make himself heard. "Is that really Mr. Hanbury?" Robertson asked one of his neighbors. "Yes, the son." "It seems incredible! He's taking his life in his hands." Gerald Hanbury's first words were lost in the uproar, but gradually the crowd began to listen.
'I wish it hadn't been my sister. But you know what women are. It's better to have nothing at all to do with them. 'But what is it? Frank King said, with some alarm on his face. 'Madge has bolted. 'Madge has bolted? the other repeated, staring at Mr. Tom in a bewildered sort of way. 'Yes. Gone and married that fellow Hanbury. This morning.
But he had paid little attention to books, and felt little respect for authors. One of the coarse jokes of his friend, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, was far more pleasing to him than Thomson's Seasons or Richardson's Pamela.
Gray, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. It was quite natural for us all, as belonging in some sort to the Hanbury family, to disapprove of the other trustee's choice. But when some ill-natured person circulated the report that Mr. Gray was a Moravian Methodist, I remember my lady said, "She could not believe anything so bad, without a great deal of evidence." Before I tell you about Mr.
"If I could lie like that, I wouldn't want a pony." He was forced to draw back a little from the heat of the conflagration he had kindled. "George Hanbury," she cried, "don't you ever speak to me again! Never! Do you understand?" It was thus that George, at some cost, had made a considerable discovery which, for the moment, shook even his scepticism. Honora believed it all herself.
But all the more, for this understood mortification of my lady's, did the whole village and estate of Hanbury assume every outward sign of mourning. The church bells tolled morning and evening. The church itself was draped in black inside. Hatchments were placed everywhere, where hatchments could be put.
She helped him to soothe his wife, promised to stay with her all the afternoon instead of returning to Hanbury, and afterwards offered to remain with her while the Doctor went to attend the funeral.
Hanbury, again, "I realize how you worked to make the child that velvet coat. Do you think you ought to dress her that way?" "I don't see why she shouldn't be as well dressed as the children of my friends, Eleanor." Mrs. Hanbury laid her hand impulsively on Aunt Mary's. "No child I know of dresses half as well," said Mrs. Hanbury. "The trouble you take " "Is rewarded," said Aunt Mary. "Yes," Mrs.
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