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Colonel Halkett's arms crossed his chest. Cecilia's eyelids drooped their, lashes. Mr. Culbrett was balancing on the hind-legs of his chair. No one appeared to be speaking but Nevil. It became evident that Nevil was putting a series of questions to his uncle. Mechanical nods were given him in reply. Presently Mr. Romfrey rose, thundering out a word or two, without a gesture. Colonel Halkett rose.
I never saw anything like it. 'That repartee wouldn't have done with a Dutchman or a Torbay trawler, said Stukely Culbrett. 'But let us hear more. 'Is it fair? Miss Halkett murmured anxiously to Mrs. Lespel, who returned a flitting shrug. 'Charming women follow Beauchamp, you know, Palmet proceeded, as he conceived, to confirm and heighten the tale of success.
Culbrett asked him; and several gentlemen fell upon him for an account of the day. Palmet grimaced over a mouthful of his pie. 'Bad! quoth Mr. Lespel; 'I knew it. I know Bevisham. The only chance there is for five thousand pounds in a sack with a hole in it. 'Bad for Beauchamp? Dear me, no'; Palmet corrected the error. 'He is carrying all before him.
I never saw anything like it. 'That repartee wouldn't have done with a Dutchman or a Torbay trawler, said Stukely Culbrett. 'But let us hear more. 'Is it fair? Miss Halkett murmured anxiously to Mrs. Lespel, who returned a flitting shrug. 'Charming women follow Beauchamp, you know, Palmet proceeded, as he conceived, to confirm and heighten the tale of success.
'Look here, Nevil, Stukely Culbrett checked Beauchamp in season: 'I beg to inquire what Dr. Shrapnel means by "the people." We have in our country the nobles and the squires, and after them, as I understand it, the people: that's to say, the middle-class and the working-class fat and lean. I'm quite with Shrapnel when he lashes the fleshpots.
But the habitually and professedly cynical should not deliver themselves at length: for as soon as they miss their customary incision of speech they are apt to aim to recover it in loquacity, and thus it may be that the survey of their ideas becomes disordered. Mr. Culbrett endangered his reputation for epigram in a good cause, it shall be said. These interruptions were torture to Beauchamp.
I do so much wish to respect men, and all my experience tells me the Turks know best how to preserve it for us. Two men in this house would give their wives for pipes, if it came to the choice. We might all go for a cellar of old wine. After forty, men have married their habits, and wives are only an item in the list, and not the most important. With the assistance of Mr. Stukely Culbrett, Mrs.
Culbrett without admiring his wit. 'No, and I see no good in this kind of Steynham talk, Colonel Halkett said, rising. 'We're none of us perfect. Heaven save us from political parsons! Beauchamp was heard to utter, 'Humanity. The colonel left the room with Cecilia, muttering the Steynham tail to that word: 'tomtity, for the solace of an aside repartee. She was on her way to dress for church.
Culbrett, 'Don't frighten the women, satisfied him, though why it should he could not have imagined. Mrs. Lespel quitted the breakfast-table before the setting in of the dangerous five minutes of conversation over its ruins, and spoke to her husband, who contested the necessity for secresy, but yielded to her judgement when it was backed by Stukely Culbrett.
It was good discipline nevertheless, the colonel affirmed, and Cecilia praised the Rev. Mr. Brisk of Urplesdon vicarage as one of our few remaining Protestant clergymen. 'Then he ought to be supported, said Beauchamp. 'In the dissensions of religious bodies it is wise to pat the weaker party on the back I quote Stukely Culbrett. 'I 've heard him, sighed the colonel.
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