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He went directly to Vicar's Dale to see and consult him, and Ormond thought he was confiding a profound secret to the doctor, when first he spoke to him of his passion for Miss Annaly; but to his surprise, the doctor told him he had seen it long ago, and his wife and daughters had all discovered it, even when they were first with him at Annaly. "Is it possible? and what do you all think?"
Our young hero had need to repeat this prayer the next morning at breakfast, when Sir Herbert, on opening his letters, exclaimed, "My friend, Colonel Albemarle " And Lady Annaly, in a tone of joy, "Colonel Albemarle! I hope he will soon be here." Sir Herbert proceeded: "Cannot obtain leave of absence yet but lives in hopes," said Sir Herbert, reading the letter, and handing it to his mother.
"Not strong, sir he has a hectic colour as I was very sorry to see." "Ay, poor fellow he broke some blood-vessel, I think Marcus told me, when they were in England." "Yes, sir so Lady Annaly told me it was in over-exerting himself to extinguish a fire." "A very fine spirited fellow he is, no doubt," said Sir Ulick; "but, after all, that was rather a foolish thing, in his state of health.
Lady Annaly and her daughter were present, and this was one of the circumstances to which her ladyship had alluded, when she said that some things had occurred that had prepossessed her with a favourable opinion of Ormond's character. Dr.
Though she was not a girl to act in the high-flown heroine style, and, in a fit of pride or revenge, to punish the man she liked, by marrying his rival, whom she did not like; yet Florence Annaly, as Ormond well knew, inherited some of her mother's strength of character; and, in circumstances that deeply touched her heart, might be capable of all her mother's warmth of indignation.
"With whom? boy, is the question you should ask; and in that case the answer is Dunce, can't you guess now? Miss Annaly." "Miss Annaly!" repeated Harry with genuine surprise, and with a quick sense of inferiority and humiliation. "Oh, sir, you would not be so ill-natured as to make a jest of me! I know how ignorant, how uninformed, what a raw boy I am. Marcus has been educated like a gentleman."
In the agony of disappointed love and jealousy, he railed bitterly against the whole sex, and against Florence Annaly in particular. Many were the rash vows he made that he would never think of her more that he would tear her from his heart that he would show her that he was no whining lover, no easy dupe, to be whiffled off and on, the sport of a coquette.
"Nor I neither; but by the time you have lived as long as I have in the world," said Lady Annaly, "you will not be so much surprised as you now seem, my good sir, at hearing people say what you do not understand. I am told that Ireland will be undone by means of a protege of yours, of the name of Tommy Dun not Dun Scotus."
This whole affair about the books had escaped Ormond's memory: he felt himself blush all over when he read the letter again; and sent off a messenger immediately to the agent at Annaly, who had kept the box till it was inquired for. It was too heavy for the boy to carry, and he returned, saying that two men would not carry it, nor four a slight exaggeration!
None of your if friends for me, setting out with a proviso and an excuse to be off; and may be when you'd call upon 'em at your utmost need, 'Oh! I said if you deserve it Lie there like a dog. Now, what kind of a friend is that? If Lady Annaly is that sort, no need to regret her. My compliments to her, and a good journey to England Ireland well rid of her! and so are you, too, my boy!"
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