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'Not at all not at all, my dear boy, said his father; 'I would rather cramp myself than that you should be cramped, a thousand times over. But it is all my Lady Clonbrony's nonsense. If people would but, as they ought, stay in their own country, live on their own estates, and kill their own mutton, money need never be wanting.
They passed rapidly along the passage to Lady Clonbrony's room. 'Oh, my dear, dear Lady Berryl, come! or I shall die with impatience, cried Lady Clonbrony, in a voice and manner between laughing and crying. 'There, now you have congratulated, are very happy, and very glad, and all that now, for mercy's sake, sit down, Lord Clonbrony! for Heaven's sake, sit down beside me here or anywhere!
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"Not at all, not at all, my dear boy," said his father: "I would rather cramp myself than that you should be cramped, a thousand times over. But it is all my Lady Clonbrony's nonsense. If people would but, as they ought, stay in their own country, live on their own estates, and kill their own mutton, money need never be wanting."
Perhaps his vexation was increased by his consciousness that there was some mixture of truth in their sarcasms. He was sensible that his mother, in some points her manners, for instance was obvious to ridicule and satire. In Lady Clonbrony's address there was a mixture of constraint, affectation, and indecision, unusual in a person of her birth, rank, and knowledge of the world.
Lady Berryl went to Lady Clonbrony's apartment; she was met by Sir Arthur. 'Come, my love! come quick! Lord Colambre is arrived. 'I know it; and does he go to Ireland? Speak instantly, that I may tell Grace Nugent. 'You can tell her nothing yet, my love; for we know nothing. Lord Colambre will not say a word till you come; but I know, by his countenance, that he has good and extraordinary news.
Le Maistre, as she passed Lord Colambre, who was standing motionless in the hall. "I beg a thousand pardons; but I was hunting, high and low, for my lady's numbrella." Lord Colambre did not hear or heed her: his eyes were fixed, and they never moved. Lord Clonbrony was at the open carriage-door, kneeling on the step, and receiving Lady Clonbrony's "more last words" for Mr. Soho.
Who'll listen to that in a court of justice, do you think?" "I don't know, plase your honour; but this I'm sure of, my lord and Miss Nugent, though but a child at the time, God bless her! who was by when my lord wrote it with his pencil, will remember it." "Miss Nugent! what can she know of business? What has she to do with the management of my Lord Clonbrony's estate, pray?"
Lady Clonbrony thought that it would be wise to secure him for her niece before he should make his appearance in the London world, where mothers and daughters would soon make him feel his own consequence. Mr. Berryl, as Lord Colambre's intimate friend, was admitted to the private evening parties at Lady Clonbrony's; and he contributed to render them still more agreeable.
Salisbury drove on rapidly. Lady Clonbrony's ideas had now taken the Salisbury channel. 'You didn't know that Mr. Salisbury was going to Buxton to meet you, did you, Grace? said Lady Clonbrony. 'No, indeed, I did not! said Miss Nugent; 'and I am very sorry for it. 'Young ladies, as Mrs.
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