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It was assumed by some that my views of the state of affairs were the Viceroy's, and thus I felt that I should do him harm by staying with him. We parted perfect friends. The brusqueness of my leaving was unavoidable, inasmuch as my stay would have put me into the possession of secrets of State that considering my decision eventually to leave I ought not to know.
We should have closely questioned some of the men, or those two women, and should have found means to learn whether they were staying here. It may be that it was so, and that they are, even now, concealed in some secret hiding place, hard by."
"Are you staying here?" he asked, and when Foster told him that he was going back as soon as he could, resumed: "If you had been staying, I would have been glad to take you about the town; but, after all, there's nothing much in the way of amusement going on. I might arrange to meet you in the afternoon, but must now finish some letters for the Continental mail."
Fanny, you know, is staying at Oxton, in Surrey, with Lady Castleton, the poor lady is so fond of her, and no one has comforted her like Fanny." "I was not aware that Miss Trevanion was out of town."
In the evening he received a telegram from Clarisse to say that things were going badly and that she, the Growler and the Masher were all staying in Paris. He was much disturbed by this wire and had a less quiet night. What could the news be that had given rise to Clarisse's telegram?
"I have really sometimes been a perverse fellow," he went on, "but I will never again, if I can help it, do or say what you would disapprove." "That is very good of you," said Dorothea, with another open smile. "I shall have a little kingdom then, where I shall give laws. But you will soon go away, out of my rule, I imagine. You will soon be tired of staying at the Grange."
I stood up as he came to me, and held by the railing. "I want you to go up to the house," he said, gently, "there can be no good in your staying here." "I will stay," I cried, everything coming back to me. "I will will see him." "There is no hope, Pauline," he said, in a quick voice, for the boat was very near the bank, "or very little and you must not stay.
To tell the truth, the encounter was not entirely unexpected on my part. The previous Sunday I had seen her in church, and after service it had transpired who she was, this new-comer, and what aunt she was staying with.
"You're quite right about that, Lady Linlithgow." "I hate beauties. My niece, Lizzie Eustace, is a beauty; and I think that, of all the heartless creatures in the world, she is the most heartless." "I know Lady Eustace very well." "Of course you do. She was a Greystock, and you know the Greystocks. And she was down staying with old Lady Fawn at Richmond.
Now Squire Pope, who knew nothing of the price of violins, and had a very inadequate idea of their value, after some haggling on the part of Nick, agreed to sell him the instrument for two dollars and a half, and to see that it was delivered that evening. "Do you know where it is, Nicholas?" he asked. "Why, Phil is staying over at Frank Dunbar's, and I guess he's got it there somewhere.
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