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"Well, besides Diana, she was called Cynthia, Delia, Ancia, Orthia and several other names " "And all of 'em pretty, too!" "And she was passionately fond of hunting." "And didn't like men overmuch, did she?" "Well, it appears not. She changed Actaeon into a stag and had him devoured by her dogs " "Which wasn't very ladylike, Peregrine that was coming it a bit too strong, I think!
As my pen traces these words, I am conscious of the door opening softly, but, pretending absorption in my task, I never so much as lift my head but glance up surreptitiously to behold my aunt Julia, a little pale, her proud, full-lipped mouth not quite so firm as of old, but handsomer, lovelier than ever in her black gown, it seems to me. "O Peregrine, do you really mean to go?" "I do!"
And there was another person at The Cleeve who took into her own hands a considerable share of the management and leading of Sir Peregrine, though, in truth, she made no efforts in that direction. This was Mrs. Orme, the widow of his only child, and the mother of his heir. Mrs. Orme was a younger woman than Mrs.
"On the contrary, though I have seen him frequently, I know him not in the least." "My dear Vereker who does?" "My name is Peregrine!" said I, whereupon came that impulsive hand to rest lightly upon my shoulder again for a moment.
We don't understand French grins here." "Nor does he, nor French courtesies either," said Peregrine. "So much the better!" exclaimed the baronet. Here the little clear voice broke in, "O Mr. Oakshott, if I had but known you were coming, you might have brought me a French doll in the latest fashion."
Peregrine moralizes upon their Behaviour, which is condemned by the Doctor, and defended by the Governor They arrive in safety at Lisle, dine at an Ordinary, visit the Citadel The Physician quarrels with a North Briton, who is put in Arrest.
Libraries were not concerned with children in those days, and I had strange adventures. I remember, in the catalogue, being impressed by the title, "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle." I filled an application blank and the librarian handed me the collected and entirely unexpurgated works of Smollett in one huge volume.
A novel, therefore, is frequently "bread eaten in secret"; and it is not upon Lydia Languish's toilet alone that Tom Jones and Peregrine Pickle are to be found ambushed behind works of a more grave and instructive character. And hence it has happened, that in no branch of composition, not even in poetry itself, have so many writers, and of such varied talents, exerted their powers.
Even as children the very sight of Martha Browning's solemn face" Peregrine drew his countenance down into a portentous length "her horror at the slightest word or sport, her stiff broomstick carriage, all impelled me to the most impish tricks. And now letting alone that pock-marks have seamed her grim face till she is as ugly as Alecto she is a Precisian of the Precisians.
His aphorism about "every one of them" having his price might well have been echoed by Sir Peregrine, so far as the Legislative Council was concerned, with the addition that the price in Upper Canada was sometimes ridiculously low.
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