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By the time the primary narrative of the encounter in the inn yard had given ground for fancy and ornament to present it in yet more luscious dress, Lord Ormont's phaeton was a good mile on the road. Morsfield and Captain Cumnock the latter inquisitive of the handkerchief pressed occasionally at his nose trotted on tired steeds along dusty wheel- tracks. Mrs.
'There is room for you, Mr. Weyburn, said Aminta. Mrs. Pagnell puffed. 'I can't think we've room, my dear. I want that bit of seat in front for my feet. Morsfield kicked at his horse's flanks, and between Weyburn and the chariot step, cried: 'Back, sir! His reins were seized; the horse reared, the unexpected occurred. Weyburn shouted 'Off! to the postillion, and jumped in.
Morsfield were at it, like Bull in training and desperado foiled. A French 'maitre d'armes, famed in 'escrime, standing near Captain Chiallo, looked amused in the eyes, behind a mask of professional correctness. He had come on an excursion for the display of his art. Sir John's very sturdy defence was pierced.
Adolphus Morsfield, whom the world would count quite as handsome nay, it boasted him. He enjoyed the reputation of a killer of ladies. Women have odd tastes, Aminta thought, and examined the gentleman's handwriting. It pleased her better. She studied it till the conventional phrases took a fiery hue, and came at her with an invasive rush.
But that Olmer doctor of mine, Causitt, Peter Causitt, shall pay me for being a liar or else an ignoramus when I told him he was to tell me bluntly the nature of my disease. A horseman, in whom they recognized Mr. Morsfield, passed, clattering on the road behind them. 'Some woman here about, Lady Charlotte muttered.
Pagnell; but she dared not speak, she had Morsfield on the mouth. Nor could she deny the excellent quality of the bread and butter, and milk, too, at the sign of the Jolly Cricketers.
She worships, and that is your way of pulling gods to the ground." "Does she understand good English?" "Speaks it." "Can she write?" "I have never had a letter from her." "You tell me Morsfield admires the woman would marry her to-morrow, if he could get her." "He would go through the ceremony Ormont has performed, I do not doubt." "I don't doubt all of you are ready. She doesn't encourage one?"
Morsfield was a kind of Bedlamite to her; amusing in his antics, and requiring to be manoeuvred and eluded while he lived: once dead, just a tombstone, of interest only to his family.
Morsfield pretty well. I'm speaking of my affair. He has been trespassing down on my grounds at Steignton, and I think of taking the prosecution of him into my own hands. Is he in town? 'I 've just left his lame devil Cumnock, my lord, said May, after a slight grimace. 'They generally run in tandem. 'Will you let me know? 'At once, when I hear. 'You will call on me? Before noon?
Pagnell had an engagement at the house of Lady Staines for the next day to meet titles and celebrities, and it precluded her comprehension of the project. She begged to have the journey postponed. She had pledged her word, she said. 'To Mr. Morsfield? said Aminta. Her aunt was astounded.
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