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She had always been considered pretty, and her manners were gaining the finish that they had once perhaps lacked; in fact, she had found out that Sydney set a high value on social distinction and prestige; and, resolving to please him in this as in everything else, she had set herself of late to soften down any girlish harshness or brusquerie, such as Lady Pynsent used sometimes to complain of in her, and to develop the gracious softness of manner which Sydney liked to see.
"I don't think she'll do that," said Lady Pynsent when her husband appealed in this way to her. "Nan is very difficile. She is more likely to remain unmarried than marry an unsuitable man." "Unmarried!" Sir John threw up his hands. "She must marry! Why, if she doesn't marry, she is just the girl to take up a thousand fads to make herself the laughing-stock of the county!"
She was not so ignorant of the ways of men as to believe that their lives were always free from stain; indeed she knew more than most girls of the weakness and wickedness of mankind, partly because she was well acquainted with many Vanebury working-people, who were her tenants, partly because Lady Pynsent was a woman of the world and did not choose that Nan should go about with her eyes closed, and partly because she read widely and had never been restricted in the choice of books.
Pynsent why he should like to be there so much. He is not a clever man " "He certainly is not a genius, Pynsent," said Pen. "Lady Diana says that he attends Committees all day; that then again he is at the House all night; that he always votes as he is told; that he never speaks; that he will never get on beyond a subordinate place; and as his grandmother tells him, he is choked with red-tape.
But he could only answer as in duty bound "Not angry in the very least, Miss Pynsent." "I am so glad. Because I want to talk to you about Vanebury one day. But I must not stop now, for there are all these people to talk to, you know." "I may ask you to forgive the stupidity of my mistake, then?" said Sydney quickly. "It was not stupid: how could you know who I was?
Pynsent listened as long as the duet lasted, and until Miss Amory began for herself, when he strode away. "What a nice, frank, amiable, well-bred girl that is, Wagg," said Mr. Pynsent to a gentleman who had come over with him from Baymouth "the tall one, I mean, with the ringlets and red lips monstrous red, ain't they?" "What do you think of the girl of the house?" asked Wagg.
About this time took place one of the most singular events in Pitt's life. There was a certain Sir William Pynsent, a Somersetshire baronet of Whig politics, who had been a member of the House of Commons in the days of Queen Anne, and had retired to rural privacy when the Tory party, towards the end of her reign, obtained the ascendency in her councils. His manners were eccentric.
This very week they had run the Government so close that the transfer of three votes would have put them in a minority; and Sir John Pynsent, who was always a sanguine man, had convinced himself that the Liberal party was on the point of breaking up. "They are sure to go to pieces," he said to Campion; "and it would be a strange thing if they did not.
I send you no politics, for here are neither politics nor ministers; Lord Chatham is quiet at Pynsent, in Somersetshire, and his former subalterns do nothing, so that nothing is done. Whatever places or preferments are disposed of, come evidently from Lord , who affects to be invisible; and who, like a woodcock, thinks that if his head is but hid, he is not seen at all.
Pynsent why he should like to be there so much. He is not a clever man " "He certainly is not a genius, Pynsent," said Pen. "Lady Diana says that he attends Committees all day; that then again he is at the House all night; that he always votes as he is told; that he never speaks; that he will never get on beyond a subordinate place, and as his grandmother tells him, he is choked with red-tape.
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