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Hare been suspicious. "Did he proclaim that Francis Levison? Did you hear it from him?" Mrs. Hare, gentle Mrs. Hare, drew herself up, for the words grated on her feelings and on her pride. Another moment, and she was mild and kind again, for she reflected that the poor, sorrowful governess must have spoken without thought.
Scott, and his perfection of person, manner and conversation, until the entrance of the gentlemen from the dining-room. The host and the member for Lone came in arm in arm, and a little in the rear of the other guests, and lingered behind them. "This most extraordinary young man, this Mr. Scott you have known him some time, my lord?" said Sir Lemuel Levison, in a low tone.
In going down the great upper hall, Miss Levison passed the door of the dark, narrow passage at right angles with the hall, and leading to the tower stairs, where she had seen the apparition of the night before. She shivered and hurried on.
And by her own goings on I found out that it was the announcement of the marriage, that was to come off in two days at Lone Castle, between the young Marquis of Hereward and the daughter and heiress of Sir Lemuel Levison, as had set her on fire. I tried my best to quiet her, and even asked her what it was to her? She said she would soon let 'em all know what it was to her. I begged her to explain.
"No, Miss, they be all busy a dressing of themselves, as I think." "Ah! then go before me and open the door, and tell his lordship that I shall be with him in a moment," said Miss Levison. The girl dropped another courtesy and preceded her mistress down stairs.
There they made such a vigorous stand that the Dutch and Danish horse, though headed by the King in person, recoiled; even the Inniskillens gave way, and the whole wing would have been routed had not a detachment of dragoons, belonging to the regiment of Cunningham and Levison, dismounted and lined the hedges on each side of the ditch through which the fugitives were driven; there they did such execution on the pursuers as soon checked their ardor.
A sudden impulse flashed over her that she would tell him the truth. Not tell him that she loved Francis Levison, or that he had spoken to her as he did; she valued her husband too greatly to draw him into any unpleasantness whose end could not be seen; but own to him that she had once felt a passing fancy for Francis Levison, and preferred not to be subjected to his companionship now.
But this time he stinketh and I'm sorry for any Christus who brings him to life again, to stink livingly for another thirty years: the beastly Lazarus of our idealism." "That may be true for you " "But it's true for nobody else," said Lilly. "All the worse for them. Let them die of the bee-disease." "Not only that," persisted Levison, "but what is your alternative? Is it merely nihilism?"
"Anyhow, there's no immediate danger or hope, if you prefer it of the re-instituting of classic slavery," he said. "Unfortunately no. We are all such fools," said Argyle. "Besides," said Levison, "who would you make slaves of?"
And so the second season passed. Sir Lemuel Levison took his daughter to Scotland, and invited a large company to stay with them at Lone, thinking that, after all, more matches were made in the close daily intercourse of a country house, than in the crowded ball-rooms of a London season.
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