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Then his voice began to quaver a little till he stopped short with a cry of despair "I cannot mind the words, I cannot say my prayers. Oh! will nobody say them for me? If mother, as is not in Lon'on, were here, she would do it fast," he ended, flinging out one thin arm and clutching convulsively at the air in a kind of panic-stricken terror. There was another second's dead silence.
James'-square, Lon'on; where her heart was, fur certain. For since she come to the country, never was there such a change in any living lady, young or old quite moped! The general, and his aide-de-camp, and every body, noticing it at dinner even.
'Oh, I see now what you are about, cried Lady Clonbrony; 'you are coming round with your persuasions and prefaces to ask me to give up Lon'on, and go back with you to Ireland, my lord. You may save yourselves the trouble, all of you, for no earthly persuasions shall make me do it.
"You couldn't have said that you would fetch her, if you didn't know where to find her." "I wouldn't stop till I did find her, if the old man would take her back again. She's bad enough, no doubt, but there's others worse nor her." "When did you see her last?" "Over at Pycroft." "And whither did she go from Pycroft, Sam?" "She went to Lon'on, I suppose, Mr. Fenwick."
I min' weel 'at he said the only thing 'at made agen the viouw I tiuk though I spakna o' the partic'lar occasion was,'at naebody ever h'ard tell o' the ghaist o' an alderman, wha they say's some grit Lon'on man, sair gien to the fillin' o' the seck." Again a deep silence descended on the room. The twilight had long fallen, and settled down into the dark.
Observe that you introduced yourself to me as the friend of Lord Dunroe." "Merely to connect myself with the proceedings between you. I 'ave or am about to discard him, but I shaunt go about the bush no longer. I'm a native of Lon'on, w'at is tarmed a cockney haw, haw! and he 'as treated me ill very ill and I am detarmined to retaliate." "How, sir, are you determined to retaliate?"
'Well done, Lon'on! cries I; 'luck to the fine lady: I never thought to wish success to such a kind." Granny, too, cried, "Well done, Lon'on! Luck to the fine lady!" If all Helens were but as pure, and true, and tender as Lady Betty!
D'ye think she's see'd the Baro-nite since she's been in Lon'on, Muster Carbury? 'I think she's a good girl, if you mean that. 'I'm sure she be. I don't want none to tell me that, squoire. Tho', squoire, it's better to me nor a ten pun' note to hear you say so. I allays had a leaning to you, squoire; but I'll more nor lean to you, now.
"What a mercy it maun be," he went on, "to mony a cratur', in sic a whummle an' a rum'le an' a remish as this Lon'on, to ken 'at there is sic a cave howkit oot o' the din, 'at he can gang intill an' say his prayers intill! Man, Peter! I'm jist some feared whiles 'at the verra din i' my lugs mayna 'maist drive the thoucht o' God oot o' me."
"'Twould be difficult, in some cases," thought many present. "'Pon honour, di'monds are cursed expensive things, I know!" said Heathcock. "But, be that as it may," whispered he to the lady, though loud enough to be heard by others, "I've laid a damned round wager, that no woman's diamonds married this winter, under a countess, in Lon'on, shall eclipse Lady Isabel Heathcock's! and Mr.
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