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I have nothing to do with Lord Ongar's papers. Everything of which I knew was sealed up in the count's presence and in mine, and was sent to the lawyers for the executors. I looked at nothing; not at one word in a single letter. What could he have to say to me of Lord Ongar's papers?" "Or he might have written?" "At any rate he should not have come there, Harry.
M. des Rameures remarked it to them. The neighboring country people felt in the Count's language something new as it were, a tender humility; they said that in other years he had been polite, but this year he was angelic.
According to the laws of the list, you may fairly claim that the encounter go on." "Oh, knightly prince, well said! My thanks. We lose time. Squires, my bassinet!" "Yea," renewed Edward, "bring hither the count's bassinet. By the laws, the combat may go on at thine asking, I retract my warderer.
I must confess that time has entirely destroyed that delicacy; yet I do not believe myself worse than other men, my equals in age and inexperience. We returned to the count's apartment, and the day passed off rather gloomily. Towards evening the ladies went away, but the countess gave me a pressing invitation to call upon them in Venice.
Hippolyte bowed low, and stepped back to give place to the valets who came in with the count's costume. One bore a rich habit embroidered with gold, and the other a pair of velvet-shorts, red stockings, and diamond-buckled shoes. "A simpler habit Spanish, without embroidery, and white stockings." White stockings!
Its wearer was frail, slender and short, but the rich robe seemed to have been made for a large and robust woman. About a score of young wretchedly clad female slaves sat around Godegisele upon the leaves that the floor was strewn with, while the count's wife occupied an armed stool over which a silver embroidered carpet was thrown. Several of the girl slaves were handsome.
"Welcome, Sir Count, from the Holy Land!" cried the rest of the servants in the hall. A stable was speedily found for the Count's horse, Streithengst, and it was not before the gallant soldier had seen that true animal well cared for, that he entered the castle itself, and was conducted to his chamber.
Bill Chester tilted back the chair on which he was sitting. Once more he asked himself what on earth the fellow was driving at? Were these remarks a preliminary to the Count's saying that he was not going to Switzerland after all that he was going back to Lacville in order to take care of Sylvia.
However, as I am a heretic, and you no confessor, I shall make no more declarations on this head. The design of the Count's visit is a ball; more pleasure I shall be surfeited." The "phlegm of the country" surprised Lady Mary, who declared that it was not from Austria that one could write with vivacity and by her letters at once disproved her statement.
She took that post in the house of an old judge, where she continued to be solicited by the emissaries of the count's passion, and found a new persecutor in her master, who, after three months' endeavour to corrupt her, offered her marriage. She chose to return to her former obscurity, and escaped from his pursuit, without asking any wages, and privately returned to the Signora Diana.
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