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'Captain Baskelett! she exclaimed, leaning to Beauchamp's views on the side of her animosity to Cecil; 'he has been promised by his uncle the use of a set of rooms during the year, when the mistress of the house is not in occupation.
So small did the circumstance appear to Cecilia, notwithstanding her gentle opposition at the time she listened to it, that she never thought of mentioning it to her father, and only remembered it when Captain Baskelett, with Lord Palmet in his company, presented himself at Mount Laurels, and proposed to the colonel to read to him 'a letter from that scoundrelly old Shrapnel to Nevil Beauchamp, upon women, wives, thrones, republics, British loyalty, et caetera, an et caetera that rolled a series of tremendous reverberations down the list of all things held precious by freeborn Englishmen.
This is my uncle Everard! I might have made sure there'd be a blow from him! And Cecil! of all men for a politician! Cecilia, think of it! Cecil Baskelett! I beg Seymour Austin's pardon for having suspected him... Now sounded Captain Baskelett's trumpet. Angry though he was, Beauchamp laughed. 'Isn't it exactly like the baron to spring a mine of this kind?
By-the-by, I should have told you that Captain Beauchamp was one hundred and ninety below Captain Baskelett when the state of the poll was handed to me. The gentleman driving with your father compared the Liberals to a parachute cut away from the balloon. Is he army or navy? 'He is a barrister, and some cousin of Captain Beauchamp. 'I should not have taken him for a Beauchamp, said Mrs.
A taint of personal pique, awakened by the fancied necessity for putting her devotedness to Nevil to proof, asked her if she would then be the official housekeeper to whom Captain Baskelett bowed low with affected respect and impertinent affability, ironically praising her abroad as a wonder among women, that could at one time have played the deuce in the family, had she chosen to do so.
She said, 'I think he would have suited Bevisham better than Captain Baskelett. Of the original, who presented himself at Mount Laurels in the course of the week, she had nothing to say, except that he was very like the photograph, very unlike Nevil Beauchamp. 'Yes, there I'm of your opinion, her father observed. The gentleman was Mr.
Housekeeper? yes, oh yes. 'And handsome housekeepers were doubtful characters, Captain Baskelett prompted him.
I uphold him. 'Then, my lord, I am silent. Silent she remained; but Lord Romfrey was also silent: and silence being a weapon of offence only when it is practised by one out of two, she had to reflect whether in speaking no further she had finished her business. 'Captain Baskelett stays at the Castle? she asked. 'He likes his quarters there. 'Nevil could not go down to Romfrey, my lord.
'Captain Baskelett read it out to us. 'He? Oh! then... She stopped: Then the author of this mischief is clear to me! her divining hatred of Cecil would have said, but her humble position did not warrant such speech.
Housekeeper? yes, oh yes. 'And handsome housekeepers were doubtful characters, Captain Baskelett prompted him.
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