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Charnock and Lord Rathforlane. So you see it was all worldliness after all, Anne." "I suppose it was good-nature," said Anne. "Indignation, I fancy," said Julius. "Now, was he very wicked for it, Anne?" "N no, if dancing be not wrong." "But why should it?" "All the bad people danced in the Bible." "Miriam King David, eh?" "That was part of their religious service."
But Rosamond was rather aghast to find Bally making such love as only an Irishman could do to the prim little widow at Sirenwood, dismayed and a little bit ashamed of her unspoken conviction that Bally, after all his wild freaks and frolics, had come to have an eye to the needs of the Rathforlane property; and what were her feelings when, instead of finding the wild Irishman contemned, she perceived that he was believed in and met fully half way?
"Sobieski is better company than he would meet at Duddingstone, I suspect poor fellow! Lord Rathforlane has been so much excited by hearing of Driver's successes as a coach, as to desire Terry to read with him for the Royal Engineers.
Her father enjoyed the barren honours of the Earldom of Rathforlane, an unimprovable estate in a remote corner of Ireland, burthened with successive families of numerous daughters, so that he was forced to continue in the service, and the marriage had been hastened by the embarkation of the regiment for India only two days later.
"Never quartered there, but on visits at Rathforlane," said Rosamond. "Our ten years at home we have been up and down the world, till at last you see I've ended where I began at Plymouth." "Oh, what a lovely Florentine mosaic!" exclaimed Cecil, who had taken but slight interest in this itinerary. "It is just like a weight at Dunstone." Then opening a miniature-case, "Who is this Mrs.
"Not till Monday, when we dine at Colonel Ross's. He is an old friend of Lord Rathforlane." "Then I am inclined to let it cool. Sometimes advice that has been resented does its work." "You don't think the interference justifiable?" "Not from that quarter." "And can it be needful to attend to it?"
But she had grown into such union with her husband, and had so forgotten the Rathforlane defence, as to learn that it was pleasanter to do as he liked than to try to make him like what she did, and a look of disapproval from him would open her eyes to the flaws in any scheme, however enchanting at first.
"Not that they ever did more than their position required, and Lady Rathforlane is a truly careful mother. Of course some things might startle you stay-at-home people; but in all essentials " "I see what you mean." "And what seems like rattle is habit." "Simple gaiete de coeur!" "So it is better to acquiesce till it subsides of itself.
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