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She ought to make you a good wife, Daniel Granger. There is nothing against her doing so." "God grant she may!" replied Mr. Granger solemnly; "God knows how dearly I love her, and what a new thing this love is to me!" He took heed of his future father-in-law's counsel, and said nothing more about his hopes to Clarissa just yet awhile.
"Clarissa!" he exclaimed; "why, my darling, how lovely you have grown! My dear little Clary! How well I remember the sweet young face, and the tears, and kisses, and the slender little figure in its childish dress, that day your father carried you off to school! My own little Clary, what a happiness to see you! But you never told me you were coming to Paris."
And then he went out to the carriage with my lady, and saw her drive away, with the blinds discreetly lowered as before. "What did she come about, Clarissa?" he asked his daughter, while they were going back to the house. "Only to see me, papa." "Only to see you! She must have had something very important to say to you, I should think, or she would scarcely have come at such a time."
They had earned the right to lunch. They must also earn the right to dine and sleep! Late in the afternoon they came to a small village where a crowd of idlers soon surrounded them. Philidor unpacked Clarissa and recited in a loud tone the now familiar inventory of their artistic achievements and Yvonne, smiling, donned her orchestra, tuned her mandolin and played.
Oliver with an aggrieved air; "you ought to be more reserved, my dear, at your age. A young lady travelling alone cannot be too careful. Indeed, it was very wrong of your father to allow you to make this long journey alone. Your aunt has been quite distressed about it." Clarissa sighed faintly; but was not deeply concerned by the idea of her aunt's distress.
Price, emphatically, to young Medlicot, whom she is patronizing for one night, because he knows somewhat of plays and players; and who, in spite of his allegiance to swimming, simpering Clarissa, would give a fortune to paint that pose. Belvidera need fear no lolling, no sneering, no snapping at her little peculiarities this night.
I thought I perceived that Miss Lavinia would have uncommon satisfaction in superintending two young lovers, like Dora and me; and that Miss Clarissa would have hardly less satisfaction in seeing her superintend us, and in chiming in with her own particular department of the subject whenever that impulse was strong upon her.
So much for Hannah. I don't know what to write, about your answering that man of violence. What can you think of it, that such a family as ours, should have such a rod held over it? For my part, I have not owned that I know you have corresponded. You were once my comfort, Clarissa; you made all my hardships tolerable: But now!
So, on this occasion, when Clarissa Green snatched at the rose-cakes which formed the staple of the feast, Lota looked very sharply at Stella, and said, "Don't let me ever see you do so, Stella, or I shall have to slap your little hands." Stella heeded the warning, and sat upright as a poker and perfectly still. Clarissa was perhaps not so much to blame, for the rose-cakes were delicious.
Verplanck's morning-room. It was a tiny apartment; for when Gulian Verplanck brought his young bride home he had added a room to the wing below, and as it greatly enlarged their bedroom, the happy idea had struck him to throw up a partition, corner-ways, which formed an irregularly shaped room opening on the passage, and gave Clarissa her own cherished den in that great house of square rooms and high ceilings.
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