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Annette naturally was in deep distress, and Fellingham postponed the discussion to the morrow. Even after such a taste of Tinman as that, Annette could not be induced to join in deriding him privately. She looked pained by Mr. Fellingham's cruel jests.
Van Diemen Smith, when there was literally a duel between him and Tinman; for Van Diemen's contribution to the table was champagne, and that had been drunk, but Tinman's sherry remained. Tinman would insist on Fellingham's taking a glass. Fellingham parried him with a sedate gravity of irony that was painfully perceptible to Anisette.
Young Fellingham's appointment to come to Elba had slipped Mr. Tinman's memory. It was annoying to see this intruder. "At all events, he's not with Annette," said Mrs. Cavely. "How long has her father to run on?" "Five months," Tinman replied. "He would have completed his term of service in five months." "And to think of his being a rich man because he deserted," Mrs. Cavely interjected. "Oh!
Young Fellingham's appointment to come to Elba had slipped Mr. Tinman's memory. It was annoying to see this intruder. "At all events, he's not with Annette," said Mrs. Cavely. "How long has her father to run on?" "Five months," Tinman replied. "He would have completed his term of service in five months." "And to think of his being a rich man because he deserted," Mrs. Cavely interjected. "Oh!
You see through me. Anybody could. I can't talk of my botheration without betraying myself. What good am I among you sharp fellows in England?" Language of this kind, by virtue of its unintelligibility, set Mr. Herbert Fellingham's acute speculations at work.
Now, Annette had shyly intimated to her father the nature of Herbert Fellingham's letter, at the same time professing a perfect readiness to submit to his directions; and her father's perplexity was very great, for Annette had rather fervently dramatized the young man's words at the ball at Helmstone, which had pleasantly tickled him, and, besides, he liked the young man.
Annette naturally was in deep distress, and Fellingham postponed the discussion to the morrow. Even after such a taste of Tinman as that, Annette could not be induced to join in deriding him privately. She looked pained by Mr. Fellingham's cruel jests.
Disparity of ages and unsuitableness of dispositions what was it Fellingham said? like two barrel-organs grinding different tunes all day in a house." "I don't want to hear Mr. Fellingham's comparisons," Tinman snapped. "Oh! he's nothing to the girl," said Van Diemen. "She doesn't stomach leaving me." "My dear Philip! why should she leave you? When we have interests in common as one household "
Disparity of ages and unsuitableness of dispositions what was it Fellingham said? like two barrel-organs grinding different tunes all day in a house." "I don't want to hear Mr. Fellingham's comparisons," Tinman snapped. "Oh! he's nothing to the girl," said Van Diemen. "She doesn't stomach leaving me." "My dear Philip! why should she leave you? When we have interests in common as one household "
They're over at Helmstone now. They've been to London." "Are they likely to be back to-day?" "Certain, I should think. Mr. Tinman has to be in London to-morrow." Crickledon looked. He was not the man to look artful, but there was a lighted corner in his look that revived Fellingham's recollections, and the latter burst out: "The Address? I 'd half forgotten it. That's not over yet?
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