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Let me beg of you to exercise more control over your feelings; you are really rude to Miss Assher, and I can see that she is quite hurt. Consider how strange your behaviour must appear to her. She will wonder what can be the cause of it. Come, dear Tina, he added, approaching her, and attempting to take her hand; 'for your own sake let me entreat you to receive her attentions politely.
Gilfil, and telling him how handsome Miss Assher was, but how entirely unlike her mother apparently resembling her father only. 'Aha! said Sir Christopher, as he turned to look at Caterina, 'what do you think of this, Maynard? Did you ever see Tina look so pretty before? Why, that little grey gown has been made out of a bit of my lady's, hasn't it?
'Dear, dear Beatrice, be patient; do not judge me so rashly. Sit down again, sweet, he added in a pleading voice, pressing both her hands between his, and leading her back to the sofa, where he sat down beside her. Miss Assher was not unwilling to be led back or to listen, but she retained her cold and haughty expression. 'Can you not trust me, Beatrice?
Anthony had already been kindly received by Lady Assher as the nephew of her early friend; why should he not go to Bath, where she and her daughter were then residing, follow up the acquaintance, and win a handsome, well-born, and sufficiently wealthy bride? Sir Christopher's wishes were communicated to his nephew, who at once intimated his willingness to comply with them from a sense of duty.
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