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He likes some people, as he once liked me; but I do not think that he ever loved any human being. He will get over it, and he will simply wish that Hermy may die, that he may marry another wife. Harry, I know him so well!" "Archie will marry now," said Harry. "Yes; if he can get any one to have him. There are very few men who can't get wives, but I can fancy Archie Clavering to be one of them.
Sir Francis Clavering timidly stammered out the Colonel's name to his guest Mr. Welbore Welbore, and his Excellency began drinking wine forthwith and gazing round upon the company, now with the most wonderful frowns, and anon with the blandest smiles, and hiccupped remarks encomiastic of the drink which he was imbibing. "Very singular man.
In the meantime, Harry Clavering and Theodore Burton had met.
"Where's Major Clavering? I'll ask to dismiss the men." "They are dismissing a great many little men, forward, I suspect," said the first-mate, laughing. "I cannot imagine what induced Captain Oughton to give the order: we never shake bedding except when the ship's before the wind." This last very consoling remark made it worse than all; the officers were in an agony.
Now he would have them all, but would not have them from her. Now he would have them all, and would share them with Florence Burton. Ah! if she could have been true to him in those early days in those days when she had feared his poverty would it not have been well now with her also? The measure of her retribution was come full home to her at last! Sir Harry Clavering!
The rings round his eyes were of the colour of bistre; those orbs themselves were like the plovers' eggs whereof Lady Clavering and Blanche had each tasted; the wrinkles in his old face were furrowed in deep gashes; and a silver stubble, like an elderly morning dew was glittering on his chin, and alongside the dyed whiskers now limp and out of curl.
There was a numerous gathering of Claverings in the drawing-room of the great house when the family from the rectory arrived, comprising three generations; for the nurse was in the room holding the heir in her arms. Mrs. Clavering and Fanny of course inspected the child at once, as they were bound to do, while Lady Clavering welcomed Florence Burton.
A commodious billiard-room has been attached to the hotel, and the cellars have been furnished with the choicest wines and spirits, selected, without regard to expense, by C. L. Commercial gentlemen will find the Clavering Arms a most comfortable place of resort: and the scale of charges has been regulated for all, so as to meet the economical spirit of the present times."
"Tricks, Lady Ongar!" "If Harry Clavering be ill, tell me what ails him. Is he in danger?" "His mother, in writing to Florence, says that he is not in danger, but that he is confined to the house. He has been taken by some fever."
He recognised the Chevalier's genius in the magnificence before him. "Lady Clavering is going out for her drive," the Major said. "We shall only have to leave our pasteboards, Arthur." He used the word 'pasteboards, having heard it from some of the ingenuous youth of the nobility about town, and as a modern phrase suited to Pen's tender years.
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