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None moved her; none could come near to touching the happy insensibility of a wife who adored her husband, wrote to him daily, thought of him by the minute. Her former worshippers were numerous at Livia's receptions; Lord Fleetwood, Lord Brailstone, and the rest. Odd to reflect on they were the insubstantial but coveted wealth of the woman fallen upon poverty, ignoble poverty!
But if indeed you are unhappy and would like to chide the innocent, I am full of compassion for the poor gentleman inheriting my legitimate feelings of wrath, and beg merely that he will not pour them out on me with pen and paper, but from his lips and eyes. 'Time pressing, I chatter no more. The destination is Livia's beloved Baden.
Madge followed into the morning room; Ines remained in the hall, where he could have the opening speech with his patron, and where he soon had communication with the butler. This official entered presently to Gower, presenting a loaded forehead. A note addressed to Mrs. Kirby-Levellier at the Countess Livia's house hard by was handed to him for instant despatch.
Henrietta was Livia's guest, her husband having hurried away to Vienna: 'To get money! money! her angry bluntness explained his absence, and dealt its blow at the sudden astounding poverty into which they had fallen. She was compelled to practise an excessive, an incredible economy: 'think of the smallest trifles! so that her Chillon travelled unaccompanied, they were separated.
The courtly Frenchman won the ladies to join him in whipping the cream of the world for five minutes, and passed out before his flavour was exhausted. Brailstone took his lesson and departed, to spy at them from other boxes and heave an inflated shirt-front. Young Cressett, the bottle of effervescence, dashed in, and for him Livia's face was motherly.
She drew forth a letter from a silken work-bag, and raised it, Livia's handwriting. 'I 've written my opinion, he said. 'Not too severe, pray. 'Posted. 'Livia wanted a protector. 'And chose what on earth are you saying!
The courtly Frenchman won the ladies to join him in whipping the cream of the world for five minutes, and passed out before his flavour was exhausted. Brailstone took his lesson and departed, to spy at them from other boxes and heave an inflated shirt-front. Young Cressett, the bottle of effervescence, dashed in, and for him Livia's face was motherly.
Livia put the question, she put it twice rather sternly, and the girl came out with: 'Oh, he meant it! The nature, the pride, the shifty and furious moods of Lord Fleetwood were painted frightful to her. She had conceived her own image of him. Whether to set her down as an enamoured idiot or a creature not a whit less artful than her brother, was Countess Livia's debate.
Following in the government of his family, as in so large a part of his politics, the traditions of the old nobility, Augustus gave his daughter in marriage when very young, she was not yet past seventeen, just as he early gave wives to Livia's two sons, whose guardian he was.
Hence a string of possible events, astounding to mankind, but equally calculable, should one care to give imagination headway. Gower looked signally Captain Abrane's 'fiddler' while he waited at Livia's house door. A studious intimacy with such a lady was rather like the exposure of the silver moon to the astronomer's telescope.
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