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'Oh, I see. 'And if I did marry, I should be like him. She turned to him and put her face close to his. 'Unfaithful, she pronounced clearly. 'Oh, well, Henrietta, you would still be you. She stepped backwards, shocked. 'Charles, wouldn't you mind? 'Not so much, he said stolidly, 'as doing without you altogether.
The Huguenots, being first shaken into submission, saw their political liberties torn from them by the stroke of a pen; and even while the Catholics were making merry over this discomfiture the minister was planning to send Henrietta, sister of the king, across the channel to become queen of Protestant England, as wife of Charles I. But the act of supreme audacity was to come.
"I suppose you mean the aristocracy are absent," Henrietta answered; "but I don't think you could have a better proof that if they were absent altogether they wouldn't be missed. It seems to me the place is about as full as it can be. There's no one here, of course, but three or four millions of people. What is it you call them the lower-middle class?
The Musgroves came back to receive their happy boys and girls from school, bringing with them Mrs Harville's little children, to improve the noise of Uppercross, and lessen that of Lyme. Henrietta remained with Louisa; but all the rest of the family were again in their usual quarters.
Leonard even named the old gentleman's name and then Henrietta remembered meeting him at the soirées at Klausenburg. Leonard, however, warned his wife never to mention the matter in the presence of the old gentleman in question, if she should ever meet him, for he had sundry relations with poachers and other people of that sort.
In the meantime he has ordered me to take ice out of sympathy with nature, I suppose; and not to speak a word, out of contradiction to my particular, human, feminine nature. Whereupon I revenge myself, you see, by talking all this nonsense upon paper, and making you the victim. Henrietta desires me to say that she means to go to see you very soon.
'You deserve a better and a brighter fate. I should not be your friend if I could enter into such an engagement. 'The only aim of my life is to make you happy, said Lord Montfort. 'I am sure that I ought to be happy with such a friend, said Henrietta Temple, 'and I am happy. How different is the world to me from what it was before I knew you! Ah, why will you disturb this life of consolation?
Their point of view seemed to be that if anyone had been so lucky as to keep out of the bothers of marriage, the least she could do was to help her unfortunate sisters. Still, they disliked being beholden to Henrietta, and, half intentionally, set their children against her to relieve their feelings. The children were not bad children, but Henrietta found their visits burdensome.
"May I ask," said Miss Hetty, with excusable curiosity, "what was the name of this friend. I begin to feel quite an interest in your little girl," she added, half apologetically. "Her name was Henrietta Henderson," said the stranger. "Why, that is my name," ejaculated Miss Hetty. "And she was named after you," said the stranger, composedly.
'Is any parallel attempted to be drawn in this company between matrimony and hanging? 'The noose, you know, said Mr Folair, a little crest-fallen. 'The noose, sir? retorted Mr Lillyvick. 'Does any man dare to speak to me of a noose, and Henrietta Pe 'Lillyvick, suggested Mr Crummles. And Henrietta Lillyvick in the same breath? said the collector.
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