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You used to go out riding with papa when he was at Colonel Bury's. 'Well, Lucy! exclaimed her sister, 'I did not think even you capable of such a comparison. 'It's all the same, said Lucy tartly, blushing a good deal. Sophy leapt up to look at her, and Albinia trying to be calm and judicious, demanded, 'What is the same as what? 'Why, Algernon and me, was the equally precise reply.
After my Christmas quarter I shall be up in the world again, and then there will be time to think of the woman you spoke of a Connaught woman, did you say? When Albinia reported this dialogue to her husband, he was much moved by this simple self-abnegation.
'Some day you will come to the same good taste, said his father, to lessen the general confusion. 'See a lady instead of a piebald? Never! cried Maurice with indignation, that made the most preoccupied laugh; under cover of which Genevieve effected a retreat. Sophy looked imploringly at Albinia Albinia was moving, but not with alacrity, and Mr.
Had the small flutter of vanity been cured by a glimpse beyond her own corner of the world? But soon Albinia became sensible of an alteration in Gilbert. He had no sooner settled completely into his new employment, than a certain restless dissatisfaction seemed to have possessed him.
His whole conscience in the matter is to have a large sum to put into Gilbert's hands when he comes of age. Why, he upholds those dens of iniquity in Tibbs's Alley on that very ground! 'Poor Gilbert! I am afraid a large sum so collected is not likely to do him much good! and at one-and-twenty ! But that is one notion of faithfulness! Albinia was much happier after that conversation.
'It is no use, said Sophy, moodily; 'I was born to be a misery to myself and every one else. 'What has put such a fancy in your head, my dear? said Albinia, nearly smiling. 'Grandmamma's Betty said so, she used to call me Peter Grievous, and I know it is so. It is of no good to bother yourself about me. It can't be helped, and there's an end of it.
Kendal spoke, telling her that he had resolved that Sophia's admission into the Church should take place as soon as she was equal to the exertion. Albinia asked if she should speak to Mr. Dusautoy, but the manliness of Mr. Kendal's character revolted from putting off a confession upon his wife; so he went to church the next morning, and saw the vicar afterwards. Mr.
Lucy was lively as usual, but rather more excited than Albinia altogether liked; she was doubly particular about her dress; more disdainful of the common herd, and had a general air of exaltation that made Albinia rejoice when the Polysyllable, the horses, the key-bugle, and genre painting disappeared from the Bayford horizon.
Meadows's room, and was not easily withdrawn from thence to a tete-a-tete. Fearful of falsehood, Albinia began by telling her she knew all, and how little she had expected such a requital of trust. Lucy exclaimed that it had not been her fault, she had always wanted to tell, and gradually Albinia drew from her the whole avowal, half shamefaced, half exultant.
Tears fell fast at this precious effusion from the deep, sincere heart, at the moment when Albinia herself was most guilty in her own eyes. Embraces were her only answer, and how fervent! 'And, mamma, whispered Sophy, 'if you could only let me have some small part of teaching little Albinia. A trotting of small feet and a call of mamma was heard.
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