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They tell me he is one of the Avenels, a born Blue; is it possible?" "I have come here on that business. As a peer you cannot, of course, interfere; but I propose, with your leave, to go down myself to Lansmere, and undertake the superintendence of, the election. It would be better, perhaps, if you were not present; it would give us more liberty of action."
I never thought he would make his fortune; but the Avenels are a clever set. Do you remember poor Nora the Rose of Lansmere, as they called her? Ah, no, I think she went up to Lunnun afore your time, sir." "Humph!" said the parson, dryly. "Well, I think you may take away now. It will be dark soon, and I'll just stroll out and look about me." "There's a nice tart coming, sir."
"In the first place, I have met with a relation of of the Avenels." "Indeed! Whom, Richard Avenel?" "Richard Richard who is he? Oh, I remember, the wild lad who went off to America; but that was when I was a mere child." "That Richard Avenel is now a rich, thriving trader, and his marriage is in this newspaper, married to an Honourable Mrs. M'Catchley.
"Do the Avenels still reside in their old house?" "Oh, yes! and are pretty well off, I hear say. John is always poorly, though he still goes now and then to the Odd Fellows, and takes his glass; but his wife comes and fetches him away before he can do himself any harm." "Mrs. Avenel is the same as ever?" "She holds her head higher, I think," said the landlord, smiling.
Oh, strange human heart! no epic ever written achieves the Sublime and the Beautiful which are graven, unread by human eye, in thy secret leaves. Of whom else should he beg? His mother had nothing, Riccabocca was poor, and the stately Violante, who had exclaimed, "Would that I were a man! " he could not endure the thought that she should pity him and despise. The Avenels! No, thrice No.
Well, in this country who should plume himself on birth?" "You did not say so always, Egerton," replied Harley, with a tone of mournful reproach. "And I say so now pertinently to a Mrs. M'Catchley, not to the heir of the L'Estranges. But no more of these these Avenels." "Yes, more of them. I tell you I have met a relation of theirs a nephew of of "
And besides, one of us Avenels ought to be in parliament; and if I have not the time and learning, and so forth, and he has, why, it stands to reason that he should be the man.
Nora had died in giving birth to a child, died delirious. In her delirium she had spoken of shame, of disgrace; there was no holy nuptial ring on her finger. Through all her grief, the first thought of Mrs. Avenel was to save the good name of her lost daughter, the unblemished honour of all the living Avenels.
He no longer opposed Dick Avenel when that gentleman represented how detrimental it would be to his business at Screwstown if he devoted to his country the time and the acumen required by his mill and its steamengine; and how desirable it would be, on all accounts, that Leonard Fairfield should become the parliamentary representative of the Avenels.
Well, in this country who should plume himself on birth?" "You did not say so always, Egerton," replied Harley, with a tone of mournful reproach. "And I say so now pertinently to a Mrs. M'Catchley, not to the heir of the L'Estranges. But no more of these these Avenels." "Yes, more of them. I tell you I have met a relation of theirs a nephew of of "
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