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And Jane Mattock there, imbibing forced doses of Arthur Adister, will find her patriotism dissolving in the natural human current; and she and Philip have a pretty wrangle, and like one another none the worse for not agreeing: patriotically speaking, she's really unrooted by that half-thawed colonel, a creature snow-bound up to his chin; and already she's leaping to be transplanted.
'We 're held together and a trifle intermixed; I fancy it's we with him and with me when we're talking of army or navy, said Patrick. 'But Captain Con's a bit of a politician: a poor business, when there's nothing to be done. 'A very poor business! Mr. Adister rejoined,
For him, he decided that he would have rejoiced at the news. Granting the prince a monster, however, as Mr. Adister unforcedly considered him, it was not so cheering a piece of intelligence that involved him yet closer with that man's rank blood: it curdled his own. The marriage had shocked and stricken him, cleaving, in his love for his daughter, a goodly tree and withering many flowers.
She would have had him, she would, Miss Adister, if she hadn't feared he'd be talked of as Captain Con has been about the neighbourhood, I mean, because he, Patrick added hurriedly, 'he married an heiress and sank his ambition for distinction like a man who has finished his dinner. I'm certain she would. I have it on authority. 'What authority? said Caroline coldly. 'Her own old nurse.
Adister carried on the broken sentence. 'That house will fall! However, you have lost no time this morning. Mr. Patrick O'Donnell. Mr. Camminy bowed busily somewhere in the direction between Patrick and the sideboard. 'Our lawyers have us inside out, like our physicians, Mr. Adister resumed, talking to blunt his impatience for a private discussion with his own.
'The doubt throws a shadow on the wish, said Miss Mattock. 'And can one picture Colonel Adister the secretary of a Laundry Institution, receiving directions from Grace and me! We should have to release him long before the six months' term, when we have resolved to incur the expense of a salaried secretary. Mrs.
A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O'Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire Adister, whose family-seat was where the hills begin to lift and spy into the heart of black mountains.
Adister said; 'not on these hills! and it must be a trial for the wretched men to climb them, that thing on their backs. 'They are as accustomed to it as mountain smugglers bearing packs of contraband, said Philip. 'Con would have argued him out of hearing before he ground a second note, she resumed. 'I have no idea when Con returns from his unexpected visit to Ireland.
Thus did the ingenious Patrick change his ground and gain his argument with the celerity of one who wins a game by playing it without an adversary. Mr. Adister had sprung a new sense in him on the subject of the renunciation of the religion.
A modern steel cuirass, helmet and plume at a corner of the armoury reminded Mr. Adister to say that he had worn the uniform in his day. He cast an odd look at the old shell containing him when he was a brilliant youth. Patrick was marched on to Colonel Arthur's rooms, and to Captain David's, the sailor. Their father talked of his two sons. They appeared to satisfy him.
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