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Another visitor at Wellington was Jimmy Lufton, who had come down to see the celebration regardless of work and expenses, and ordered Molly a beautiful bouquet of narcissus to be handed to her when she appeared as Rosalind.
We send him to prison for making the mistake." "I hope they won't send Crawley to prison." "I hope so too; but what is a jury to do?" "You think it will go to a jury, then?" "I do," said Lord Lufton. "I don't see how the magistrates can save themselves from committing him. It is one of those cases in which every one concerned would wish to drop it if it were only possible. But it is not possible.
Lady Lufton, who was very staunch, did not like this, and would say of Miss Dunstable that it was impossible to serve both God and Mammon. But Mrs. Proudie was much more objectionable to her.
And then Lady Lufton is so good about the schools." "Ah! yes: but Lady Lufton is not a clergyman, Miss Robarts." It was on Lucy's tongue to say that her ladyship was pretty nearly as bad, but she stopped herself. At this moment Providence sent great relief to Miss Robarts in the shape of Mrs.
"But the truth is this: she and Lord Lufton are getting into the way of being too much together of talking to each other too exclusively. I am sure you must have noticed it, Fanny. It is not that I suspect any evil. I don't think that I am suspicious by nature." "Oh! no," said Fanny. "But they will each of them get wrong ideas about the other, and about themselves.
She would not have minded it, she said, if he had been a Roman Catholic. And whether the punishment might be for six weeks or for two years, what should be done with the family? Where should they be housed? How should they be fed? What should be done with the poor man when he came out of prison? It was a case in which the generous, soft-hearted old Lady Lufton was almost beside herself.
Whether or no a man should have his own private pleasures, I will not now say; but it never can be worth his while to keep his sorrows private. Lady Lufton Is Taken by Surprise Lord Lufton, as he returned to town, found some difficulty in resolving what step he would next take.
"What shall I tell him then? Shall I say yes simply yes?" "Simply yes," said Lucy. "And as to the stern old mother who thought her only son too precious to be parted with at the first word is nothing to be said to her?" "Oh, Lady Lufton!" "No forgiveness to be spoken, no sign of affection to be given? Is she always to be regarded as stern and cross, vexatious and disagreeable?"
"Oh, he is going to the palace, is he? well; he must choose his own friends. Harold Smith one of his party! It's a pity, my dear, he did not see Miss Proudie before he met you, he might have lived to be the bishop's chaplain. Gatherum Castle! You don't mean to tell me that he is going there? Then I tell you fairly, Fanny, that I have done with him." "Oh, Lady Lufton, don't say that," said Mrs.
What if she had been successful, and, after all, the prize had been other than she had expected? She was sometimes prone to think that that prize was not exactly all that she had once hoped. Griselda looked the very thing that Lady Lufton wanted for a queen; but how would a queen reign who trusted only to her looks? In that respect it was perhaps well for her that destiny had interposed.
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