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Pendennis knows no more of this business than the babe unborn, sir," cried the Major, aghast. "No more than Lady Clavering, than Miss Amory does." "Tell that to the marines, Major," replied the valet; "that cock won't fight with me." "Do you doubt my word, you villain?" "No bad language. I don't care one twopence'a'p'ny whether your word's true or not.
Lovely as she is, charming as she is, tender as she is, she is not only capable of trampling on the rights of one who trusted her, but of bruising the heart and breaking the spirit of him to whom she owes all duty, honor, and observance. "If you don't believe this, ask her to her cruel, bewitching face, who and what is her humble servant, and yours. "Henry Ritchie Clavering."
But there had even been a sort of friendship nay, occasionally almost a confidence, between him and Lady Clavering, and he believed that by her he was really liked. Lady Clavering had heard of his engagement, and, of course, congratulated him. "Who told you?" he asked "was it my mother?" "No; I have not seen your mother I don't know when. I think it was my maid told me.
Smirke had one confidante for his passion that most injudicious woman, Madame Fribsby. How she became Madame Fribsby, nobody knows: she had left Clavering to go to a milliner's in London as Miss Fribsby she pretended that she had got the rank in Paris during her residence in that city. But how could the French king, were he ever so much disposed, give her any such title?
Our good-natured Begum was at first so much enraged at this last instance of her husband's duplicity and folly, that she refused to give Sir Francis Clavering any aid in order to meet his debts of honor, and declared that she would separate from him, and leave him to the consequences of his incorrigible weakness and waste.
A countess, a widow, a woman of the world who had seen enough to make her composed under all circumstances, one would say a trained mare, as Doodles had called her she stood before her glass, doubting and trembling like a girl, when she heard that Harry Clavering was waiting for her below.
Jack Stuart's boat had been lost, and his two cousins had gone to their graves beneath the sea! The master of the boat, and Stuart himself, with a boy, had been saved. The other sailors whom they had with them, and the ship's steward, had perished with the Claverings. Stuart, it seemed, had caused tidings of the accident to be sent to the rector of Clavering and to Sir Hugh's bankers.
After the affair with Hobnell, Pen was pronounced to be a murderer as well as a profligate, and his name became a name of terror and a byword in Clavering. But this was not all; he was not the only one of the family about whom the village began to chatter, and his unlucky mother was the next to become a victim to their gossip. "It is all settled," said Mrs. Pybus to Mrs.
We have shown how Mr. Huxter, in writing home to his Clavering friends, mentioned that there was a fashionable club in London of which he was an attendant, and that he was there in the habit of meeting an Irish officer of distinction, who, amongst other news, had given that intelligence regarding Pendennis, which the young surgeon had transmitted to Clavering.
And it was at this period of his life that he formed an attachment for Miss Sophy Huxter, whom, on his father's demise, he married, and took home to his house of the Warren, at a few miles from Clavering. The family had possessed and cultivated an estate there for many years as yeomen and farmers. Mr.
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