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"I'm not saying any woman can help men making fools of themselves; but you should have told Braelands that you were all the same as married, being promised so long to Andrew Binnie. And you ought to have told Andrew about the letter." "Everybody can't live in Pittendurie, Christina.
I am to run after a man who does not care for me, and make myself attractive, in the hope that he will condescend to marry me because Mr. Binnie may leave me his money. Do you wonder that it took even Lady Theobald a long time to say that?" "Well," remarked Octavia, "you won't do it, I suppose. I wouldn't worry. She wants you to marry Mr. Barold, I suppose." Lucia started.
Pen is conceited, but much kinder in reality than he has the air of being. Fred Bayham is doing well, and prospering in his mysterious way. "Mr. Binnie is not looking at all well: and Mrs. Mack well, as I know you never attack a lady behind her lovely back, I won't say a word of Mrs. Mack but she has taken possession of Uncle James, and seems to me to weigh upon him somehow.
She did not seem to be very sorry to part with mamma, a want of feeling which that lady bitterly deplored in her subsequent conversation with her friends about Mrs. Clive Newcome. Possibly there were reasons why Rosey should not be very much vexed at quitting mamma; but surely she might have dropped a little tear as she took leave of kind, good old James Binnie. Not she.
I don't eat side dishes; and as for the roast beef of Old England, why, the meat was put on the table and whisked away like Sancho's inauguration feast at Barataria. We did not dine till nine o'clock. "Our dinner, I hope, will be different. Jack Binnie will take care of that. That fellow is full of anecdote and fun.
"I protest I don't know which of you blushes the most," chuckles James Binnie and the truth is, the old man and the young girl had both hung out those signals of amiable distress.
You, Andrew Binnie! that can manage a boat when the north wind is doing its mightiest, are you going to be one of the cony kind, when it comes to a slip of a girl like Sophy? I can not think it, for you know what Solomon said of such 'Oh Son, it is a feeble folk." "I don't come of feeble folk, body nor soul; and as I have said, I will have the whole matter out with Sophy to-morrow."
I believe Sophy is either in his mother's house or else she has gone to London." "Why London?" "Captain Binnie sails continually to London. Really, Archie, there are none so blind as those who won't see." "I will not believe such a thing of Sophy. She is as pure and innocent as a little child." Madame laughed scornfully. "She is as pure and innocent as those baby-faced women usually are.
A nice lad you will be to trust to in a big ship full of men and women and children! A glass of whiskey, and a crack in the public house, set before your promised word and your duty! How will I trust Christina to you? When you make Andrew Binnie a promise, he expects you to keep it. Don't forget that! It may be of some consequence to you if you are wanting his sister for a wife."
Jamie had been fortunate and made money, and Andrew had perfected all his arrangements, so that one morning in early September, the whole village saw "The Falcon" come to anchor in the bay, and Captain Binnie, in his gold-buttoned coat and gold-banded cap, take his place on her bridge, with Jamie, less conspicuously attired, attending him.
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