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While her father had been alive, home to her had been with him, but even then it had no abiding-place; and since then, the charming apartment in Paris or the villa at Cannes with all their comfort and luxury seemed but to mock the word. "No," she mused, "home for me should be England." England and home, surely synonymous terms.
They point out that all the money made in the brig colliers goes into few hands, and is carried away to be spent in London and Torquay, and Cannes, and Paris, by the great coalowners. They say, too, that the new race of seamen are unsocial beings who do no good to any town that the steamers run from.
Judgement was given by the Judicial Committee on the great ecclesiastical cause of 'Essays and Reviews. It was drawn with great care by Lord Westbury, who read it all over with me before it was submitted to the committee. From Lord Brougham Cannes, February 13th. I suffered most severely myself by the same loss, and I have not, after above twenty years, learnt to forget it.
At last, on the Saturday, he received, at the poste restante, a telegram which had been readdressed from the Hotel Franklin and which said: "He got out at Cannes and is going on to San Remo, Hotel Palace des Ambassadeurs. The telegram was dated the day before. "Hang it!" exclaimed Lupin. "They passed through Monte Carlo. One of us ought to have remained at the station.
"Now where is it I have seen that man before?" she pondered. She had certainly met no one in Cannes; she knew few if any Englishmen, yet the face, with its combined hint of cynicism and petulance, was undoubtedly familiar. It stirred some vibration in her memory, recent, and in an indefinable way unpleasant. Where had she seen him? She gave it up.
But in the summer of 1858 he had an alarming attack of bleeding at the lungs, accompanied with a general prostration of strength. In the autumn, his physicians ordered him to the South, and early in November he arrived at Cannes, where he was to spend the winter. But neither change of climate nor tender nursing was sufficient to prevent his disease from progressing.
"You don't look well on it, Bunny," said he. "I never did believe in this Thames Valley. You want a change of air." I wished I might get it. "What you really want is a sea voyage." "And a winter at St. Moritz, or do you recommend Cannes or Cairo? It's all very well, A. J., but you forget what I told you about my funds." "I forget nothing. I merely don't want to hurt your feelings.
"I know." The girl's voice was low and soft. "I am awfully, awfully sorry!" "Thank you. It doesn't of course matter for me. I can make my own life. But for my father it is hard. I should like you to know" he spoke with growing agitation "that when we met at Cannes and at Oxford I had no knowledge no idea of what was happening." She raised her head suddenly, impetuously.
He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous of allowing to escape.
From Lord Brougham Cannes, April 20th. I hope my account of J. Austin will appear in the 'Law Magazine and Review. It is written con amore, though very far from such an article as I could have wished to make it. The letter of Mrs.
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