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Laughed at length, letting finer instincts of charity go by the wall, in her enjoyment of neatly turned mockeries and the sense of personal superiority they provoked. For Henrietta's dissection of the weaknesses of absent friends, inevitably amounted to indirect flattery of the friend for whose diversion that process of dissection was carried out. She passed the whole troop in review.
"Far worse of you than of me, however unjustly. You were the immediate cause of the tragedy; I only the remote one. Jansenius is not far-seeing when his feelings are touched. Few men are." "I don't understand you in the least. What tragedy do you mean?" "Henrietta's death. I call it a tragedy conventionally. Seriously, of course, it was commonplace enough." Agatha stopped and faced him.
Unless here Henrietta's mind darted unless she happened to take a fancy to Marshall. Blameless spinsters, of her uncertain age and of many enthusiasms, did not infrequently very warmly take to him in plain English, fell over head and ears in love with him, poor things, though without knowing it, their critical faculty being conspicuous by its absence where their own hearts were concerned.
I daresay you hardly realize the importance of a good temper, Etta, but in my opinion it makes more difference in life than anything else." Henrietta came back three days before Louie's wedding. Louie repented the injury she had done, and on the last night she came into Henrietta's room and apologized. "You know, Etty, I am very sorry, very, very sorry.
The morning sun shone down through the golden autumn foliage of the maple trees that lined the street, and now irradiated Henrietta's figure and then dyed it somberly as she passed with rapid step through open space and shadow. Isabella watched her progress down the quiet road toward the avenue, half a dozen blocks away, whence came the clang of street cars and the rattle of traffic.
Henrietta's rustic training, however, asserted itself, and she gladly took a hand in the preparation of the evening meal. "I've a novel I want to finish reading, Mary," said her sister, "and if you don't mind I'm going to do it. You and Miss Bailey don't need me. I'll go into our room until supper is ready." "What is it, dear?
And, however contemptible these aids may be to a real student, they were evidently the one hope for Henrietta's foggy mind.
After that the count never mentioned Henrietta's name in Szilard's presence again and who knows whether there was not some impediment between these two from which no sacrament could absolve them. Who knows whether it might not after all have been as well for Vamhidy to avoid any meeting whatever with the widow of the late Baron Hátszegi?
It signified brisk news to him, and prospect of glee to propitiate any number of devils. 'You will want a maid to attend on you, he said. She replied: 'I am not used to attendance on me. Henrietta's maid would help. I did not want her. I had no maid at home. I can do for myself. Father and mother liked me to be very independent. He supposed he would have to hear her spelling her words out next.
He carried on his father's collection of books and MSS., and formed what was afterwards known as the Harleian Collection, which was bought by the trustees of the British Museum for £10,000. Henrietta's only daughter, Margaret, married William Bentinck, second Earl of Portland, and thus the estates passed to the Portland family.
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