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Hope, cried Albinia, burning with such indignation, that on some one she must expend it, but a tirade against the artfulness of the little French witch was cut off short by an authoritative 'Don't, mamma! You are unjust! How can she help being loveable! 'He had no business to know whether she was or not. 'You are wrong, mamma. The absurdity was in thinking I ever was so.
If the end of the vacation were a relief on Lucy's account, Albinia would gladly have lengthened it on Gilbert's.
'The regiment should be a very good one, said Mr. Ferrars; 'he would be only too easily drawn in by the bad style of subaltern. 'Put him into the 25th Lancers, said the General, 'and set Fred to look after him. Rattlepate as he is, he can take excellent care of a lad to whom he takes a fancy, and if Albinia asked him, he would do it with all his heart.
When Albinia visited her little boy at night, she found that Gilbert had been talking to him of his eldest brother, and she heard more of Edmund's habits and tastes from the little fellow who had never seen him, than from either the twin-brother or the sister who had loved him so devotedly.
He could not rest without seeing her, and delivering that last message, but he was glad to have the way prepared by his wife, and proposed to call for her when his law business should be over. Albinia sent in her card, and asked whether Miss Durant were at liberty. Genevieve came hurrying to her with outstretched hands: 'Dear Mrs.
What a home it must have been, with Lucy reigning over it in her pert self-sufficiency, Gilbert and Sophy running riot and squabbling, and Maria Meadows coming in on them with her well-meant worries and persecutions! When taken away from the scene of his troubles, his spirits revived; afraid to encounter his own household alone, he had thought Albinia the cure for everything.
Albinia assured her that she was not going away, and restrained her own eager and bewildered feelings to tranquillize her, by prosing on in the lengthy manner which always soothed the poor old lady.
That's all let me see what I can do for you. 'Yes, but yourself, Ulick, said Albinia, as in his haste he took down his handkerchief from his mouth; 'I do believe your lip is cut through! You had better attend to that first.
'O no! answered Albinia, 'it is great fun; and as the horses fidgeted again, 'it feels like a review. 'You had better get out, he said; 'I must try to back the horses till I can turn them without running over any one. Will you go into the house? You did not expect to find Bayford so riotous, he added with a smile, as he assisted Genevieve out.
She offered to fetch rag for his surgery, and he farther begged for some slight bits of wood to serve as splints, he and his brothers had been dog-doctors before. As she hurried into the house, Sophy, who had sunk on a sofa in the drawing-room, looking deadly pale, called out, 'Is he bitten? 'No, no, cried Albinia, hurrying on, 'the dog is all safe. It has only got a broken leg.
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