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Could you it agonizes me to imagine . . . be inviolate? mine above? mine before all men, though I am gone: true to my dust? Tell me. Give me that assurance. True to my name! Oh, I hear them. 'His relict! Buzzings about Lady Patterne. 'The widow. If you knew their talk of widows! Shut your ears, my angel! But if she holds them off and keeps her path, they are forced to respect her.
You need not tell me you have a design in all that you do, Willoughby Patterne." "You smell the autocrat? Yes, he can mould and govern the creatures about him. His toughest rebel is himself! If you see Clara . . . You wish to see her, I think you said?" "Her behaviour to Lady Busshe last night was queer." "If you will. She makes a mouth at porcelain. Toujours la porcelaine!
Even for them a pass of danger is ahead, as we shall see in our sample of one among the highest of them. A clear approach to felicity had long been the portion of Sir Willoughby Patterne in his relations with Laetitia Dale. She belonged to him; he was quite unshackled by her. She was everything that is good in a parasite, nothing that is bad.
To-day he is looking forward to Patterne Port. He is not likely to listen to any proposals to leave to-day." "Goodness!" "I know the depth of that cry!" "You are excluded, Mr. Whitford." "Not a bit of it; I am in with the rest. Say that men are to be exclaimed at. Men have a right to expect you to know your own minds when you close on a bargain.
He said he thought Sir Willoughby an extraordinary man." "Not at all; very common; indigenous," said De Craye. "The art of cutting is one of the branches of a polite education in this country, and you'll have to learn it, if you expect to be looked on as a gentleman and a Patterne, my boy. I begin to see how it is Miss Middleton takes to you so. Follow her directions.
He went down to see my father. My father came here once, and Sir Willoughby wouldn't see him. I know Mr. Whitford does. And Miss Dale told me he did. My mother says she thinks he does it to make up to us for my father's long walk in the rain and the cold he caught coming here to Patterne." "So you see you should not vex him, Crossjay. He is a good friend to your father and to you.
She had not "hit him to the life", or she would have marvelled in acknowledging how sincere he was. At her next sitting by the bedside of Lady Patterne she received a certain measure of insight that might have helped her to fathom him, if only she could have kept her feelings down. The old lady was affectionately confidential in talking of her one subject, her son.
If you are for mischief, you are armed for it. But how much better, when you have won a prize, to settle down and wear it! Lady Patterne will have entire occupation for her flights and whimsies in leading the county.
Sir Willoughby Patterne, in "The Egoist," talks about himself frequently and in detail; but the reader soon learns from the tone and manner of his utterance to discount the high esteem in which he holds himself. By saying one thing directly, the egoist conveys another and a different thing indirectly to the reader.
A real and sunny pleasure befell Laetitia in the establishment of young Crossjay Patterne under her roof; the son of the lieutenant, now captain, of Marines; a boy of twelve with the sprights of twelve boys in him, for whose board and lodgement Vernon provided by arrangement with her father.
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