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'We're half-way to the town, mammie out on a moor; and that's Britannia! 'What do you mean? asked her mother. 'It's the girl we saw riding on that gilt car in Lesborough, and she has run away, she was so miserable there. And then Rosalie told her mother the sad story she had just heard. 'Poor thing! poor young thing! said the sick woman.
I cannot imagine forgive me one more injurious to the country, nor one more revolting to myself; and I do positively affirm, that I would sooner feed my poodle on paunch and liver, instead of cream and fricassee, than be an instrument in the hands of men like Lincoln and Lesborough; who talk much, who perform nothing who join ignorance of every principle of legislation to indifference for every benefit to the people: who are full of 'wise saws, but empty of 'modern instances' who level upwards, and trample downwards and would only value the ability you are pleased to impute to me, in the exact proportion that a sportsman values the ferret, that burrows for his pleasure, and destroys for his interest.
'It's to be hoped, he said, with a disagreeable smile on his face, 'that this resuscitation of the vital powers may be continued until we arrive at Lesborough', but the probability is that the moment we arrive on the scene of action, you will be seized with that most unpleasant of all maladies, distaste to your work, and will be compelled once more to resume that most interesting and pathetic occupation of playing the invalid!
Meanwhile, how get on the noble Lords Lesborough and Lincoln? 'sure such a pair were never seen, so justly formed to meet by nature!" "Pooh!" said Vincent, coarsely, "they shall get on well enough, before you get in. Look to yourself, and remember that 'Caesar plays the ingrate."
Christopher Harflete with the promise of the Lesborough lands was one man; Christopher Harflete without them is another in your eyes. Yet, sir, I hold you foolish. I love your daughter and she loves me, and those lands and more may come back, or I, who am no fool, will win others. Soon there will be plenty going up there at Court, where I am known.
I then said "I thank you very sincerely for your proposal: tell me the names of two of your designed party, and I will answer you." "Lord Lincoln and Lord Lesborough." "What!" said I "the Whig, who says in the Upper House, that whatever may be the distresses of the people, they shall not be gratified at the cost of one of the despotic privileges of the aristocracy. Go to! I will have none of him.
I kept dreaming about my mother, and when I woke in the night I thought I heard my mother's voice. At last I determined to run away. I knew they would be very angry; but no money could make me put up with that sort of life; I was thoroughly sick of it. I felt ill and weary, and longed for my mother. And now I'm going home. I ran away the night they left Lesborough.
Rosalie looked at her very sorrowfully; 'I wish you would tell me what's the matter, she said, 'and who you are. 'I'm Britannia, said the girl, without looking up. 'Britannia! repeated Rosalie, in a puzzled voice; 'what do you mean? 'You were at Lesborough, weren't you? said the girl. 'Yes; we've just come from Lesborough. 'Then didn't you see the circus there?
In Vincent's party, with the exception of himself, there was scarcely an individual with the honesty requisite for loving the projects they affected to propose, or the talents that were necessary for carrying them into effect, even were their wishes sincere; nor were either the haughty Lincoln, or his noisy and overbearing companion, Lesborough, at all of a temper to suffer that quiet, yet powerful interference of others, to which Dawton unhesitatingly submitted.
As to Lesborough, he is a fool and a boaster who is always puffing his own vanity with the windiest pair of oratorical bellows that ever were made by air and brass, for the purpose of sound and smoke, 'signifying nothing. Go to! I will have none of him either." "You are right in your judgment of my confreres," answered Vincent; "but we must make use of bad tools for good purposes."
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