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For a moment, and a moment only, Emily was undecided. "Show him in," she said. Mirabel's embarrassment was visible the moment he entered the room. For the first time in his life in the presence of a woman the popular preacher was shy.
"Suppose you heard she was engaged to be married?" Francine suggested. Mirabel's manner studiously cold and formal thus far altered on a sudden. He looked with unconcealed anxiety at Francine. "Do you say that seriously?" he asked. "I said 'suppose. I don't exactly know that she is engaged." "What do you know?" "Oh, how interested you are in Emily! She is admired by some people.
She is off with her mistress, this morning, on a visit to Mr. Mirabel's sister." "Does he go with them?" "No; he follows by a later train." "Has Mrs. Ellmother mentioned the address?" "There it is, in her own handwriting." Alban read the address: "Mrs. Delvin, The Clink, Belford, Northumberland." "Turn to the back of that bit of paper," the doctor said. "Mrs.
Without waiting for it to be offered, she took Mirabel's arm, and pressed it to her breast as they slowly walked on. The fear of discovery which had troubled her after she had sent her base letter to the post, vanished at that inspiriting moment. She bent her head near enough to him when he spoke to feel his breath on her face.
The stipulations with her lover in view of marriage, her fine lady's delicacy, and fine lady's easy evasions of indelicacy, coquettish airs, and playing with irresolution, which in a common maid would be bashfulness, until she submits to 'dwindle into a wife, as she says, form a picture that lives in the frame, and is in harmony with Mirabel's description of her: 'Here she comes, i' faith, full sail, with her fan spread, and her streamers out, and a shoal of fools for tenders.
He agreed with the remark; he enlarged on the remark; he was brilliant and familiar, and instructive and amusing and still it was all due to the remark. Alban's temper was once more severely tried. Mirabel's mischievous object had not escaped his penetration. He did his best to put obstacles in the adversary's way and was baffled, time after time, with the readiest ingenuity.
She opened the door, so as to make a draught of air in the room, and called for water. Returning to Mirabel, she loosened his cravat. Mrs. Ellmother came in, just in time to prevent her from committing a common error in the treatment of fainting persons, by raising Mirabel's head. The current of air, and the sprinkling of water over his face, soon produced their customary effect.
All Count Mirabel's efforts were directed to restore the influence of Ferdinand Armine over Henrietta Temple; and with this view he omitted no opportunity of impressing the idea of his absent friend on that lady's susceptible brain.
'The Parliament of Paris often permitted the tenant of a haunted house to break his contract. Ghosts or no ghosts, Mirabel's counsel said, there was a treasure. In his receipt Auguier, to deceive a simple peasant, partially disguised his hand. Auguier's alibi is worthless, he might easily have been at Marseilles and at Pertuis on the same day: the distance is eight leagues.
A kind person, disposed to discharge her duties gravely, upon her marriage with Sir Charles, she settled a little pension upon her father, who occasionally was admitted to the table of his daughter and son-in-law. At first poor Cos's behavior "in the hoight of poloit societee," as he denominated Lady Mirabel's drawing-room table, was harmless, if it was absurd.
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