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'A peerage, and such a peerage as yours, is a fine thing, said Henrietta Temple, 'a very fine thing; but I would not grieve, if I were you, for that. I would sooner be an Armine without a coronet than many a brow I wot of with. 'You misconceived a silly phrase, rejoined Ferdinand. 'I was not thinking of the loss of our coronet, though that is only part of the system.
Armine saw a flat expanse of brown and sun-dried earth, completely devoid of grass, and divided roughly into sunken beds containing small orange-trees, mimosas, rose-bushes, poinsettias, and geraniums. It was bounded on three sides by earthen walls and on the fourth side by the Nile. "Is it not beautiful, mees?" said Ibrahim. Mrs. Armine began to laugh.
Besides, he screamed and moaned with absolute and acute pain, which alarmed them much, though Armine was sufficiently himself to be able to assure them that there had been no hurt beyond the strain. It was well that Armine was both rational and unselfish, for nothing seemed to soothe Jock for a moment but his mother's hand and his mother's voice.
Armine could look out upon the pale and vague desolation of the illimitable sands stretching away into the illimitable darkness.
"Jock is a good fellow, but he lives a frivolous, self-indulgent life, and has got infected with the spirit and the language," said Armine, "or he would understand that myself or my own loss is the very last thing I am troubled about. No, indeed, I should never think of that! It is the ruin of these poor people and all I meant to have done for them.
If Armine had really worked diligently all the autumn, he might have easily entered King's College, London; but now he had thrown away his chance. Mr. Ogilvie found him with his books on the table, plunged in utter despondency. "Your mother is not worse?" he asked in alarm. "Oh no; she is very comfortable, and the doctor says she may get up to-morrow." "Then is it the Greek?" said Mr.
He did not know at all how long a time had passed since Mrs. Armine had left him, and when he came on board, he enquired of Hassan whether any message had come for him, any note from the dahabeeyah that lay over there to the south of them, drowned in the quivering gold. "No, my nice gentlemans," was the reply, accompanied by a glance of intense curiosity. Questions immediately followed.
Nature, with the splendid sky and the sweet breeze, seemed to smile upon their passion. Henrietta plucked the most beautiful flowers and placed them in his breast. 'Do you remember the rose at Armine? said Ferdinand, with a fond smile. 'Ah! who would have believed that it would have led to this? said Henrietta, with downcast eyes. 'I am not more in love now than I was then, said Ferdinand.
Jock said he had had an imposition, and was kept in school when "it" happened; John said "he had nothing to do with it;" and Rob and Joe opposed surly negatives to all questions on the subject, Rob adding that Armine was a disgusting little idiot, an expression for which his father took him severely to task.
'I am sure I do not know; but I should think we might get a nice little house somewhere. 'In a suburb! a fitting lodgment for Lady Armine. No! at any rate we will have no witnesses to our fall. 'But could not we try some place near my father's? 'And be patronised by the great family with whom I had the good fortune of being connected.
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