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Keep your eye on the door, dear Lady Frances I would not miss their entree for millions." In vain eyes and glasses were fixed in expectation of the arrival of these devoted objects of ridicule another, and another, and another came, but not the Percys. The band was now ready, and began to play Count Altenberg entered the room. Quick as grace can venture to move, Mrs.
"Is there any hope of our seeing Miss Caroline Percy?" said Mr. Barclay, with an air of respectful regard, very different from what must have been the feelings of a man who had trifled with a woman, or who had thought that she had trifled with him. Count Altenberg rejoiced that he had come without a moment's delay to Hungerford Castle. "You are really a good creature, my dear," continued Mrs.
In this hope Alfred was mistaken. He found in the great drawing-room only Mrs. Falconer and two other ladies, whose names he never heard, standing round the fire; the unknown ladies were in close and eager converse about Count Altenberg. "He is so handsome so polite so charming!" "He is very rich has immense possessions abroad, has not he?" "Certainly, he has a fine estate in Yorkshire."
That Count Altenberg loved, Mrs. Hungerford had too much penetration to doubt; and it rejoiced her heart, and satisfied all her hopes, to see a prospect of her young friend being united to such a man. Mrs. Mortimer felt as much joy and as much delicacy upon the subject as her mother showed.
A good and great character had opened to her view, and she had been so absorbed in sympathy, that though she had thought of nothing but Count Altenberg, she had never thought of him with any reference to herself. The morning after their return home, Count Altenberg came to the Hills, accompanied by Mr. Temple.
Just as they were leaving the window a momentary light broke through the grey snow-clouds just one of those moments when the eddying wind lays hold of the falling clouds of snow and flings them back again like floating garments of white. Then for a moment there was a glimpse of the distance. The three peaks stood out behind the Altenberg.
With indignation, heightened by grief, contrast, and despairing patriotism, Count Altenberg had remonstrated in vain had refused, as minister, to put his signature to the capitulation had been solicited urgently to concede offers of wealth and dignities pressed upon him: these he rejected with scorn.
When I am dying with impatience to see my cousin make herself ridiculous, as I hear she does more and more every day with that Baron Wilhelmberg Wilhelmberg, I said, not Altenberg Miss Caroline Percy need not have turned her head so quickly. Lady Angelica's man is a German, and yours was a Pole, or Prussian, was not he?
Count Altenberg, young as he was, had seen enough of the world to feel the full value of eulogiums bestowed on those who are poor, and who have no means of serving in any way the interests of their panegyrists. When the carriage came, and the commissioner was sufficiently refitted for conversation, the count repeatedly expressed his earnest wish to become acquainted with that Mr.
At the moment when this was alluded to by Count Altenberg, the commissioner was so dreadfully alarmed that he perspired at every pore; but perceiving that Lord Oldborough expressed no surprise, asked no explanation, never looked towards him with suspicion, nor even raised his eyes, Mr.
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