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James had great hopes that she was going to see him to the best advantage, but still there was a great drawback in the presence of Sydney Calcott.
'I was prompted by common justice and humanity, said Louis. 'My protection was claimed for the poor boy, as the son of an old servant of ours. 'Indeed! I think you must have been imposed on. Mr. Calcott spoke of the family as notorious poachers. 'Find a poor fellow on the wrong side of a hedge, and not a squire but will swear that he is a hardened ruffian!
I am sorry if that fact should cause you any disappointment. I do not see why it should. There are plenty of other men abler than I am who would, I am sure, be charmed to oblige Lady Violet Calcott or any of her friends." "That is not so," she broke in rapidly. "You know that is not so. You know that your genius has placed you in what is really a unique position.
Calcott, still hoping that an apology might retrieve the day, had set forth to argue the matter with James Frost, whom he could not suppose serious in his intentions, but thought he meant to threaten the trustees into acquiescence. The doors had been closed against him, and Mr. Walby feared that now the step was known, it was too late to retract it.
I'd a thought nothing of that; but by-and-by I heard him stamping up and down the study, like one in a frenzy, and I found his cap and gown lying all of a heap in a corner of the hall. Then, Mr. Calcott came to call; and when I went into the study, master had his head down on the table, and wouldn't see no one; he fairly stamped to me to be gone, and bring him no more messages. Mr.
CALCOTT, Candid Disquisition, p. 31, ed. 1769. This proposition I ask to be conceded; the evidences of its truth are, however, abundant, were it necessary to produce them. The craft, generally, will, I presume, assent to it. "The groves were God's first temples.
'You are new to Fitzjocelyn's paradoxes, said Sydney; as if glorying in having made Louis contradict himself. 'The question is, what is lost labour? said Louis. Both Sydney Calcott and Miss Conway looked as if they thought he was arguing on after a defeat. 'Calcott is teaching her his own obtuseness! thought James, in a pet; and he exclaimed, 'Is the aim to make men or winners of prizes?
'Isabel Conway. Never was his love of electrifying more fully gratified! Lord Ormersfield was surprised into an emphatic interjection, and inquiry whether they were all gone mad. 'Not that I am aware of, said Louis. 'Perhaps you have not heard that Mr. Lester is going to retire, and Jem has the school? 'Then, it must be Calcott and the trustees who are out of their senses.
Calcott, standing before the fire, with his hands behind him, as soon as the guest had departed, 'except his cousin at Ormersfield, whom I ever knew to confess that he had been mistaken. That's the difference between them and the rest, not excepting your son Sydney, Mrs. Calcott. Mamma and sisters cried in chorus, that Sydney had no occasion for such confessions.
Mr. Calcott had, for the first time in his life, been over-ridden by an unscrupulous use of his neighbour's rank; and of the youthfulness that inspired hopes of fixing a claim on an untried, inexperienced man. The old Squire was severely hurt and mortified; but he was very magnanimous generously wished James joy, and congratulated Mrs. Frost with all his heart.
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