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She wheeled round, and looked at him with a curious scrutiny. "Well, this is something new!" she said, as she turned to the mirror again. "I thought it was the fortunate Harry Thornhill who received all kinds of compliments and attentions from his lady adorers; I wasn't aware he ever returned them. But do you think it is quite fair, Mr. Moore?

I was laith to mak' awa wi' the auld dowg, his like wasna atween this and Thornhill, but, 'deed, sir, I could do naething else." I believed him. Fit end for Rab, quick and complete. His teeth and his friends gone, why should he keep the peace and be civil?

Shall I swear that I mean honourably? Lord! I am no Mr. Thornhill! I'll make it as public as you like, he continued eagerly. 'I'll send for a bishop 'Spare me the bishop, Julia rejoined with a faint smile, 'and any farther appeals. They come, I am convinced, my lord, rather from your head than your heart. 'Oh, Lord, no! he cried.

Jenkinson by name, who was awaiting trial for several acts of cheating and roguery. I myself, indeed, had been one of his victims. The fortune of my family, who were lodged in the town, was wholly and distressingly adverse. Olivia was ill, and longed for me to make my submission to Mr. Thornhill by approving his marriage with Miss Wilmot. When I had been confined a fortnight, Mr.

To this the 'Squire assenting, she proceeded to remark, that they who had warm fortunes were always sure of getting good husbands: 'But heaven help, continued she, 'the girls that have none. What signifies beauty, Mr Thornhill? or what signifies all the virtue, and all the qualifications in the world, in this age of self-interest? It is not, what is she? but what has she? is all the cry.

"It's rather fine of you," remarked Miss Thornhill. "It's asinine, if it's true," the professor voiced the other side of it. "You have said yourself or at least you claim to have said " Mr. Magee reminded him, "one girl like that is worth a million suffragettes." "And can make just as much trouble," complained Professor Bolton.

As I did not approve of such disproportioned acquaintances, I winked upon my daughters in order to prevent their compliance; but my hint was counteracted by one from their mother; so that with a chearful air they gave us, a favourite song of Dryden's. Mr Thornhill seemed highly delighted with their performance and choice, and then took up the guitar himself.

So saying, I threw him his pocket-book, which he took up with a smile, and left us astonished at the serenity of his assurance. III. The Elopement The visits of Mr. Thornhill now became more frequent and longer; but all the schemes of Olivia and her mother to bring him to a declaration came to nothing.

Thornhill was one of the males brought out from the bungalow and shot earlier in the afternoon than when the women's time came. Another monument bears this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of the women and children of the 32nd, this monument is raised by twenty men of the same regiment, who were passing through Cawnpore, 21st Nov. 1857."

Upon which, a well drest man, but not Mr Thornhill, stepping out, clasped my daughter round the waist, and forcing her in, bid the postillion drive on, so that they were out of sight in a moment. 'Now, cried I, 'the sum of my misery is made up, nor is it in the power of any thing on earth to give me another pang.