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I cannot tell you how I pant for it. For my part, I have seen the world, and I have seen enough of it. After all, the end of all our exertions is to be happy at home; that is the end of everything; don't you think so? 'A happy home is certainly a great blessing, replied Lady Annabel; 'and a rare one. 'But why should it be rare? inquired Lord Cadurcis.
Few persons could be more winning than Cadurcis, when he willed it; and every attempt to please from one whom all emulated to gratify and honour, was sure to be successful. The Countess, who, in spite of politics, was a secret votary of his, was quite prepared to be enchanted. She congratulated herself on forming, as she had long wished, an acquaintance with one so celebrated.
I am sure, even if I had not known you, there were a thousand occasions which would have called your name to my lips, had they been uncontrolled by other considerations. 'Come, Venetia, I am not going to submit to compliments from you, said Lord Cadurcis; 'no blarney. I wish you only to think of me as you did ten years ago. I will not have our hearts polluted by the vulgarity of fame.
'Will you take a seat in my carriage home, Lord Cadurcis? said his leader, for it was notorious that Cadurcis had been mobbed on his arrival. 'Thank you, my lord, said Cadurcis, speaking very audibly, 'I prefer returning as I came. We are really both of us such unpopular personages, that your kindness would scarcely be prudent.
They had walked on to a marble fountain of gigantic proportions and elaborate workmanship, an assemblage of divinities and genii, all spouting water in fantastic attitudes. 'Old days, said Plantagenet, 'are like the old fountain at Cadurcis, dearer to me than all this modern splendour.
A year, no! not a year, not one short year! and all my hopes were blighted! O Venetia! if your future should be like my bitter past! and it might have been, and I might have contributed to the fulfilment! can you wonder that I should look upon Cadurcis with aversion? 'But, mother, dearest mother, we have known Plantagenet from his childhood.
'Now, Venetia! dearest Venetia! she said, ''tis past; we are at home. Venetia leant upon her mother, but made no reply. 'Upstairs, dearest, said Lady Annabel: 'a little exertion, a very little. Leaning on her mother and Lord Cadurcis, Venetia ascended the staircase, and they reached the terrace-room.
'What it is to have a friend like you, Gertrude, said Cadurcis, 'a friend who is neither a Goth, nor a Vandal, nor a Hun, nor a Calmuck, nor a Canadian savage; but a woman of fashion, style, ton, influence in the world! It is impossible that a greater piece of good fortune could have befallen me than having you for a friend.
But in that conduct there was, and he observed it with some degree of mortification, a total absence of the consciousness of being the object of the passionate admiration of another. She treated Lord Cadurcis as a brother she much loved, who had returned to his home after a long absence. She liked to listen to his conversation, to hear of his adventures, to consult over his plans.
Cadurcis, however, was happy, and Lady Annabel was glad to see her so; the Doctor, too, paid her some charming compliments; the good lady was in the highest spirits, for she was always in extremes, and at this moment she would willingly have laid down her life if she had thought the sacrifice could have contributed to the welfare of the Herberts.
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