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And when I ride across the country, at the heels of the hounds, it is only the spangles, and glitter, and theater glare breaking out again. I could despise it in others, but I did think better things of the son of my father's oldest friend! Good-morning, Sir Everard." She turned proudly away. "Stay, Harriet Miss Hunsden! Stop for pity's sake, stop and hear me! I have been presuming impertinent.

Miss Silver, if you see my son before I get up to-day, tell him I wish particularly for his company at breakfast." "Yes, my lady," Miss Silver said, docilely; and my lady did not see the smile that faded with the words. She understood it perfectly. Sir Everard had broken from the maternal apron-string, deserted the standard of Lady Louise, and gone over to "bold, odious" Miss Hunsden.

The sense of the ludicrous overcame her sense of decorum, and again she laughed until the tears stood in her eyes. "Oh, I shall die!" in a faint whisper. "My sides ache. I beg your pardon, Sir Everard; but indeed I can not help it. It is so funny!" "So I perceive. Good-morning, Miss Hunsden." "And now you are angry.

He drove Edward, his valet, to the verge of madness with his whims, and left off at last in sheer desperation and altogether dissatisfied with the result. "I look like a guy, I know," he muttered, angrily, "and that pert little Hunsden is just the sort of girl to make satirical comments on a man if his neck-tie is awry or his hair unbecoming.

"And that is your lace-mender?" said he; "and you reckon you have done a fine, magnanimous thing in offering to marry her? You, a scion of Seacombe, have proved your disdain of social distinctions by taking up with an ouvriere! And I pitied the fellow, thinking his feelings had misled him, and that he had hurt himself by contracting a low match!" "Just let go my collar, Hunsden."

The face is that of one who has made an effort, and a successful and triumphant effort, to wrest some vigorous and valued faculty from insupportable constraint; and when Lucia's faculty got free, I am certain it spread wide pinions and carried her higher than " she hesitated. "Than what?" demanded Hunsden. "Than 'les convenances' permitted you to follow." "I think you grow spiteful impertinent."

Why, you ridiculous thing! you haven't known me two days altogether!" He turned away without speaking a word. "And then you're engaged to Lady Louise! Every one says so, and I am sure it looks like it." "I am not engaged to Lady Louise." He said those words huskily, and he could say no more. Miss Hunsden tried to look grave, but her mouth twitched.

Hunsden, then, was coming to Brussels, and coming I knew not when; coming charged with the expectation of finding me on the summit of prosperity, about to be married, to step into a warm nest, to lie comfortably down by the side of a snug, well-fed little mate.

Captain Hunsden dined here once or twice, and I recollect perfectly how gloomy and morose his manner was. I was quite frightened at him. You were at Eton then, you know." "I know!" impatiently. "I wish to Heaven I had not been. Boy as I was, I should have learned something. Did you never hear the cause of the captain's gloom?"

He talked affably, and even gently, as we went along the street; he had never been so civil to me in his life. We reached the house, entered, ascended the stair; on gaining the lobby, Hunsden turned to mount a narrower stair which led to a higher story; I saw his mind was bent on the attics. "Here, Mr. Hunsden," said I quietly, tapping at Frances' door.