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I will not add, "but makes a very poor figure by itself," for that Lady Castleton's conversation certainly did not do, perhaps, indeed, because it was not "by itself," and the gold leaf was all the better for being thin, since it could not cover even the surface of the sweet and amiable nature over which it was spread.
It is extraordinary to me," continued Sir Sedley, benevolently going on, that I might have full time to recover myself, "how contagious that disease called 'business' is in our foggy England! But, to be sure, a great name and position, like Castleton's, must be a very heavy affliction to a conscientious mind.
Come, you shall go with me to the Lady Betty Castleton's." "Indeed, you must excuse me, my dear," answered Amelia, "I do not know Lady Betty." "Not know Lady Betty! how, is that possible? but no matter, I will introduce you. She keeps a morning rout; hardly a rout, indeed; a little bit of a drum only four or five tables. Come, take your capuchine; you positively shall go.
Once or twice he had almost determined to go away, but on hinting at the possibility of his having to do so, Julia had given him a look which made him immediately alter his mind, and every day he remained he found a greater difficulty in tearing himself away. The party were assembled in the evening in the drawing-room after Lady Castleton's visit to Downside.
Said I might marry under the family tree if I felt like it. Rather good, eh, for mother? I said I preferred a church. Nothing al fresco for me." "She is quite satisfied, then, that you are not throwing yourself away on Miss Castleton," said Sara, with a deep breath, which he mistook for a sigh. "Oh, trust mother to nose into things. She knows Miss Castleton's pedigree from the ground up.
Castleton's, and elsewhere, according to direction; and immediately found answer in a crowd of invitations.
Mavis and Merle were only too delighted to have the opportunity of taking a peep into Mr. Castleton's den, so followed Beata to the old sail-room down a flight of steps cut in the cliff side. They remembered the place, for Job Helyar used to plait osiers there, and they had come once to buy a basket from him. In its former days it had been nothing but a rough shed.
I could not stay long with my unhappy cousin, but still I stayed long enough to make me think it probable that Lord Castleton's carriage would have left the inn; and when, as I passed the hall, I saw it standing before the open door, I was seized with fear for Roland, his emotions might have ended in some physical attack. Nor were those fears without foundation.
I saw that one of his peculiar outbursts was at hand one of those apparently serious, though, I thought, intentionally humorous sallies, so puzzling coming from a man of Castleton's intellectual attainments, and the mental primum mobile of which I had already been much interested in trying to determine.
By eight o'clock I had obtained Doctor Castleton's consent that Bainbridge and I might visit Peters, and remain as long as we should desire. "I will run out myself, early in the morning," said Castleton, "and do what I can to keep life in the old man. Don't let Bainbridge get into the old fellow any of his newfangled, highfalutin remedies if you do, I will not answer for the consequences.
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