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It was a case which she did not like to consider Dora blushed no creature was so blind as Mademoiselle, with all her boasted quickness and penetration. From this time forward no more was heard of Madame de Connal's taste for domestic life and retirement she seemed quite convinced, either by her husband, or by Mr. Ormond, or both, that no such thing was practicable at Paris.
England was thoroughly aroused to the merits of Artemus Ward, before he commenced his lectures at Egyptian Hall, and when, in November, he finally appeared, immense crowds were compelled to turn away. At every lecture his fame increased, and when sickness brought his brilliant success to an end, a nation mourned his retirement.
The honeymoon was to be spent in the retirement of Polperro, a Cornish village, the beauty and seclusion of which Perigal never tired of describing. Although not welcoming, she did not offer the least objection to this arrangement, as she saw that it was all that could be done under their present circumstances.
Ida started early one heavenly midsummer morning, with her book and her luncheon in a little basket, to see the old lodge-keeper at Wendover Abbey, who had nursed the elder Wendovers when they were babies in the nurseries at the Abbey, and who had lived in a Gothic cottage at the gate built on purpose for her by the last squire ever since her retirement from active service.
He had been growing old and sluggish in prosperity. He needed a fillip. The wits by which he had once lived so merrily had been getting blunt in their easy retirement. He welcomed the opportunity of matching them once more against the world. He was remorseful as regarded Jill, but the optimist in him, never crushed for long, told him that Jill would be all right.
Reynolds wrote of him: 'He may truly be said in every sense, to have been the father of the present race of artists. Northcote's Reynolds ii.137. Mr. Allen was his landlord and next neighbour in Bolt-court. Ante, iii. 141. Cowper mentions him in Retirement:
Not only might the connection be useful to the girls, but it might be invaluable in covering their retirement from Fairclose. There might be something more about that than her husband had said. At any rate this would silence all tongues and put an end to the vague anxiety that she had long felt.
After what had happened, it was, of course, impossible that Mrs. Linley could remain in her husband's house. She and her little girl, and her mother, were supposed to be living in retirement. They kept the place of their retreat a secret from everybody but Mrs. Linley's legal adviser, who was instructed to forward letters. But one other member of the family remained to be accounted for.
Gouraud received a wound which required the amputation of his leg and his retirement to France, where he later rendered more brilliant and far more effective service.
Her disposition, too, comported with the beauty of her person. She loved retirement, and read only books of the noblest sentiment. The poets were familiar to her; she copied and committed to memory the passages of exquisite beauty. There was one feature in her character which bore a marked influence on her future destinies: it was her love for her sister.
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