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Broadhurst was herself so completely blinded by her own prejudices, as to be incapable of discerning the plain thing that was before her eyes; videlicet, that Lord Colambre preferred Grace Nugent. Lord Colambre made no proposal before the end of the week; but this Mrs.
'And why did not you? that is the very thing I complain of, said Lady Clonbrony. 'But it is all over now. You may set your heart at ease, for they are to be married on Thursday; and poor Mrs. Broadhurst is ready to break her heart, for she was set upon a coronet for her daughter; and you, ungrateful as you are, you don't know how she wished you to be the happy man.
The dinner-party is too long to quote, but it is written in Miss Edgeworth's most racy and delightful vein of fun. The Edgeworth family were much interested, soon after the book appeared, to hear that a real living Miss Broadhurst, an heiress, had appeared upon the scenes, and was, moreover, engaged to be married to Sneyd Edgeworth, one of the eldest sons of the family. In the story, says Mrs.
There were rumors that the dead man's estate had been a comparatively small one. The last paragraph was the important one. Walter P. Broadhurst, of the Marine Bank, had produced two hundred American Traction bonds, which had been placed as security with the Marine Bank for a loan of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, made to Paul Armstrong, just before his California trip.
Miss Broadhurst repeated what she had said. "Girls always think so who have lived in town," said Mrs. Broadhurst: "they are always dreaming of sheep and sheep-hooks; but the first winter in the country cures them: a shepherdess in winter is a sad and sorry sort of personage, except at a masquerade."
They stayed some time in Derbyshire, and every day Lord Clonbrony proposed some pleasant excursion, and contrived that the young people should be left to themselves, as Mrs. Broadhurst used so strenuously to advise; the recollection of whose authoritative maxims fortunately still operated upon Lady Clonbrony, to the great ease and advantage of the lovers.
Beautiful in elegant and dignified simplicity thoughtless of herself yet with a look of thought, and with an air of melancholy, which accorded exactly with his own feelings, and which he believed to arise from the same reflections that had passed in his own mind. 'Miss Broadhurst, Colambre! all the Broadhursts! said his mother, wakening him, as she passed by, to receive them as they entered.
Marrying an heiress accomplishes all this at once; and the young lady is everything we could wish, besides you will meet again at the gala. Indeed, between ourselves, she is the grand object of the gala; all her friends will come EN MASSE, and one should wish that they should see things in proper style. You have seen the young lady in question, Colambre Miss Broadhurst.
You can leave Ansdore any day you choose." "Not when the shearing's on. You don't understand, Martin I can't have all the shearers up and nobody to look after 'em." "What about your looker? or Broadhurst? You don't trust anybody but yourself." "You're just about right I don't." "Don't you trust me?" "Not to shear sheep." Martin laughed ruefully. "You're very sensible, Joanna unshakably so.
Indeed, between ourselves, she is the grand object of the gala all her friends will come en masse, and one should wish that they should see things in proper style. You have seen the young lady in question, Colambre Miss Broadhurst Don't you recollect the young lady I introduced you to last night after the opera?" "The little plain girl, covered with diamonds, who was standing beside Miss Nugent?"
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