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Gordon longed for them to get out. A catch was missed in the slips. "Surrey are the worst slip-fielding side in England," announced Gordon fiercely. The Oval crowd, always so ferociously partisan, moved round him uneasily. At last a roar went up, as Hitch knocked the leg stump flying out of the ground. Then Lovelace came in.
But it may turn out for the best. They tell me thou wouldst have married her had she staid. But I know thee better. "Thine heartily, Belford to Lovelace: "June 29. Thou hast heard the news. Bad or good I know not which thou wilt deem it.
When he had fruitlessly withdrawn, Mr. Lovelace pleaded his cause so well, that the man was called in again, and had his suit granted. And Mr. Lovelace privately followed him out, and gave him two guineas, for present relief; the man having declared, that, at the time, he had not five shilling in the world.
But enough of this man; who, by what you repeat from Sir Harry Downeton, has all the insolence of his sex, without any one quality to make that insolence tolerable. I have receive two letters from Mr. Lovelace, since his visit to you; which make three that I have not answered.
During three years Colonel Nicolls humored the people so much that they were well satisfied. At the end of that time he had grown tired of the new country, and asked to be relieved. The people were really sorry when he returned to England and Francis Lovelace took his place. Governor Lovelace did not get along so well.
I challenge you, Madam, to shew me but one of the many letters you have received from her, where I am mentioned. Miss Howe is just; Miss Howe is good, replied she. She writes, she speaks, of every body as they deserve. Devilish severe! And as indelicate as severe, to put a modish man upon hunting backward after his own merits. She would have flung from me: I will not be detained, Mr. Lovelace.
Lovelace had a very good paternal estate; and that, by the evidence of an enemy, all clear.
Again Roxanne and I hugged and choked, but this time I had to conquer the lump and answer him. "Indeed, indeed, Lovelace Peyton, I'm never going to leave you any more, only to go and get the things you want. Can't I go and get the charlotte russe for you now?" "No, Phyllie," he exclaimed, grasping with his strong little fingers my hand that lay on his pillow.
Grandison, like Clarissa, has a much wider range of personage and incident than Pamela, and is again double the length of it. But a few remarks on the characters of Lovelace and Clarissa, which have usually been regarded as Richardson's greatest triumphs, may fitly precede some on his whole character as a novelist.
A great many people were out of town, all who had leisure and money enough to liberate themselves from the approaching evils of an English winter, had departed or were departing, Beau Lovelace had gone to Como, George Lorimer had returned with Duprez to Paris, and Thelma had very few visitors except Lady Winsleigh, who was more often with her now than ever.
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