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She is amiable in disposition is well educated tolerably good-looking, and, I think, ordinarily intelligent." "Ordinarily intelligent!" "Yes. Certainly there is nothing extraordinary about her." "No, of course not." "Well, brother, what next?" "Why, simply, Mary, I like Margaretta very much. The oftener I see her, the more am I drawn towards her. To tell the plain, homely truth, I love her."
"But it would lose the uptucker a job. To-night I leave you forever. Margaretta, your daughter, wishes never to see you again. Take this crib and the blood you still must shed to keep your old heart warm, and take my curse to choke you on the gallows!"
'I DON'T think, said Mrs Milvey, glancing at the Reverend Frank' and I believe my husband will agree with me when he considers it again that you could possibly keep that orphan clean from snuff. Because his grandmother takes so MANY ounces, and drops it over him. 'But he would not be living with his grandmother then, Margaretta, said Mr Milvey.
And there was Lord Porlock, looking very ungracious, and not talking to anybody about anything. And there was the countess, who for the last week past had done nothing but pat Frank on the back whenever she could catch him. And there were the Ladies Alexandrina, Margaretta, and Selina, smiling at everybody.
The countess herself, with the Ladies Alexandrina and Margaretta, now promised to come, even to this first affair; and for the other, the whole de Courcy family would turn out, count and countess, lords and ladies, Honourable Georges and Honourable Johns.
I'm told that young men of that sort seldom do," said Rosina. "I don't say you're wrong," said Margaretta. "By no means. Indeed I think less of it now than I did when Amelia did the same thing. I shouldn't do it myself, that's all." Her father told her that he supposed she knew her own mind.
The aunt, when Margaretta made known to her that the young man had offered himself, was pained beyond measure, particularly as it was evident that her niece favoured the suitor. "Indeed, Margaretta," said she, earnestly, "he is not worthy of you!" "You judge him harshly, aunt," the niece replied. "I know him to be all that either of us could wish for." "But how do you know, Margaretta?"
"But don't you think, aunt, that my money has some influence in bringing him here?" And Margaretta looked up archly into her aunt's face. "It may have, for aught I can tell. We cannot see the motives of any one. But I should be inclined to think that money would have little influence with Thomas Fielding, were not every thing else in agreement.
What can be wrong?" and Margaretta looked her aunt eagerly and inquiringly in the face. "I am sure, my child, I do not know. Something unusual must detain him, and I only hope that something may be evil neither to him nor yourself." Again there was a deep and painful silence painful at least to one heart, trembling with an undefinable sensation of fear.
He had dark hair, very nicely brushed, small black whiskers, and a small black moustache. His boots were excellently well made, and his hands were very white. He simpered gently as he took hold of Augusta's fingers, and expressed a hope that she had been quite well since last he had the pleasure of seeing her. Then he touched the hands of the Lady Rosina and the Lady Margaretta.
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