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Lady Montfort into the house, and with much agitation, and in abrupt hurried accents, implored her to withdraw the promise which forbade him to inform his benefactor how and where his time had been spent of late. He burst forth with a declaration of that love with which Sophy had inspired him, and which Lady Montfort could not be but prepared to hear.
Now, it beats my notion all to pieces to see how Mr. Greville could talk so pleasantly and gentlemanly to that dratted Montfort, and he flyin' into his face all the time like a tarrier dog. I'd a punched his head for him, I would if they'd had me up afore the Sessions for saltin' and batterin'. Consequently it's better to be a pictur' framer than a pictur' painter.
A placid and typical Perugino the Virgin and two saints comes next, and then a northern air sweeps in with Van Dyck's Giovanni di Montfort, now darkening into gloom but very fine and commanding. Beneath this is a rich and decorative work of the Veronese school, a portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga, with another evening sky.
She made her father very angry when she said these things, but she repeated them, nevertheless; and she knew that he dared not scold her too severely before the world for fear of that little something called conscience, and knowledge of the reason why he believed in Madame de Montfort so implicitly.
You are Peggy's big brother. You are Cousin Jim!" "That's what they said when they christened me!" said Cousin Jim. It was no time for explanations. Jim Montfort put out a hand like a pine knot, and gave Rita's fingers a huge shake. "Glad to find you, cousin," he said. "I've been looking for you. Now, what's up over there?" He nodded in the direction of the fire.
The elder son, Amaury, was the heir of the county of Montfort, and for some time Simon remained landless, the earldom of Leicester having been forfeited on account of the adherence of the family to the party of Louis the Lion in the wars that followed the signing of Magna Charta.
She was too young, too delicate, too the proposition was monstrous. He appealed to Captain Montfort to support him, to exercise his authority, to persuade this dear child that the noble idea which filled her young and ardent heart was wholly impracticable. Jim Montfort was silent for a time, looking at Rita from under his heavy eyebrows. Presently "You mean it?" he said.
"He never knows his own mind for a week together." "We will take care of his mind," said the prime minister, "but he has travelled a good deal, and knows the public men." "Yes," said Lady Montfort, "and the public men, I fear, know him." "Then he can make a good House of Lords' speech, and we have a first-rate man in the Commons; so it will do."
Lady Montfort lingered in London even after Goodwood. She was rather embarrassed, as she told Endymion, about her future plans.
"Let those look to that who slew him, and made me such as I am," returned Simon, turning from him, and gazing steadfastly down into the camp. Suddenly a gleam of fierce exultation lighted up his face, and again facing Richard he exclaimed, "Yes, go home, tame cringing spaniel, and see whether a Montfort is still in favour below there!
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