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Father and son, and father and son on such terms as we are, should really communicate oftener together than we do. It has been, perhaps, my fault; it shall not be so again." "My dear sir!" "Nay, nay, it shall be my fault now. Whose it shall be in future, Vivian, time will show.
Imagine the detail of the banquet; which, by the bye, gives me an opportunity of inserting, after the manner of your own Gibbon, 'a dissertation on sherbet. What think you of the art of picturesque writing?" "Admirable!" said Vivian; "von Chronicle himself "
"Use it now hear me now let us waste no time in words here is a pen and ink write, my dearest husband! and be yourself again." "You waste the energy of your mind on me," cried Vivian, breaking from Lady Sarah, and striking his forehead violently; "I am not worthy of such attachment! It is done it cannot be undone: I am a weak, ruined, dishonoured wretch! I tell you, it CANNOT be undone!"
"Oh, the man I had loved as a friend; the man whom I myself helped to make known to Trevanion, Vivian, Vivian!" "Vivian! Ah, the youth I have heard you speak of! But how? Villany to whom, to Trevanion?" "You torture me with your questions. Miss Trevanion is an heiress, Vivian an adventurer. My head swims round; I cannot explain now. Ha!
That man, sir, deserves to be canonised. Eight guineas and a half, sir, and such a result!" "Such a result!" the Prophet whispered back. By this time Madame Sagittarius had apparently ceased to commune with the dead, for her striking face assumed a more normal expression of feminine bitterness as she realised who was before her, and she exclaimed sharply, "Oh, so you've come at last, Mr. Vivian!
But Edith Whalen took a violent dislike to her, as she was apt to do when she saw another girl made much of. "Isn't she terribly crude!" exclaimed Edith with curled lips. "I don't see why she had to be in our class. I know mother wouldn't want me to associate with her." "Bet Baxter seems to like her," said Vivian Long, who was always to be seen at Edith's heels.
His mother's disappointment and anger were expressed in the strongest terms, when she found that Selina declined her invitation; but such are the quick and seemingly perverse turns of the human heart, Vivian grew warm in Selina's defence the moment that his mother became angry with her: he read her letter with tender emotion, for he saw through the whole of it, the strength, as well as the delicacy of her attachment.
These nearer fir-trees, how radiantly their black skeleton forms are tipped with silver; and the old and thickly foliaged oaks bathed in light! and the purple lake reflecting in its lustrous bosom another heaven? la it not a fair scene?" "Beautiful! most beautiful!" "Yet, Vivian, where is the being for whom all this beauty exists? Where is your mighty creature, Man?
Vivian gave him an intense a pleading, almost affecting little smile. "I am greatly touched by your confidence and I shall do everything I can think of to merit it," said the young man. "Ah, mamma's confidence is wonderful!" Angela exclaimed. "There was never anything like mamma's confidence. I am very different; I have no confidence.
Rachael said quickly. "Don't you believe it, my dear!" Mrs. Haviland returned triumphantly. "Carol was very demure, 'Tante' this and 'Tante' that, but I knew right away that something was amiss! 'Oh, I said right out flatly, 'are you alone here, Carol? and she answered very prettily: 'Vivian was to be here, but she hasn't come yet! This was after half-past seven."
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