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They were very affable, kind, and obliging; and we soon entered into a good deal of familiarity; and I found Miss Darnford a very agreeable person. Her sister was a little more on the reserve; and I afterwards heard, that, about a year before, she would fain have had my master make his addresses to her: but though Sir Simon is reckoned rich, she was not thought sufficient fortune for him.
The ladies said, It was very pretty; and Miss Darnford, That somebody else had more need to be concerned than the versifier. I knew, said my master, I should get no credit by shewing this. But let us read on, Mr. Williams. So Mr. Williams read: III. Then they, to whom we pris'ners were, Said to us, tauntingly, Now let us hear your Hebrew songs, And pleasant melody.
Peters's niece said, Well, Miss Andrews, I hope, before we part, we shall be told the happy day. My good master heard her, and said, You shall, you shall, madam. That's pure, said Miss Darnford. He took me aside, and said softly, Shall I lead them to the alcove, and tell them there, or stay till we go in to dinner? Neither, sir, I think, said I, I fear I shan't stand it.
But I think one may, with pleasure, celebrate an anniversary of one's nuptials; but the day itself Indeed, ladies, I think it is too solemn a business, for the parties of our sex to be very gay upon: it is a quite serious and awful affair: and I am sure, in your own cases, you would be of my mind. Why, then, said Miss Darnford, the more need one has to be as light-hearted and merry as one can.
She was born in the village, and had never been further away from it than Colebrook or perhaps Darnford. She lived for four years with the Smiths.
Miss Darnford told him pleasantly, She would not come, unless he would promise to let her be at his wedding; by which I find Mr. Peters has kept the secret, as my master desired. He was pleased to give me an airing after dinner in the chariot, and renewed his kind assurances to me, and, if possible, is kinder than ever.
Peters on the other; and he placed me between the two young ladies; but very genteelly put Miss Darnford below her younger sister; saying, Come, miss, I put you here, because you shall hedge in this little cuckow; for I take notice, with pleasure, of your goodness to her; and, besides, all you very young ladies should sit together.
A few moments were only allowed to Maria to comment on this narrative, when Darnford left her to her own thoughts, to the "never ending, still beginning," task of weighing his words, recollecting his tones of voice, and feeling them reverberate on her heart. * The introduction of Darnford as the deliverer of Maria in a former instance, appears to have been an after-thought of the author.
Jemima was obliged to be absent, and she, as usual, locked the door on them, to prevent interruption or discovery. The lovers were, at first, embarrassed; but fell insensibly into confidential discourse. Darnford represented, "that they might soon be parted," and wished her "to put it out of the power of fate to separate them."
I shall have enough to do, I reckon, in a while, if I am to answer every one that will envy me! We went in to tea; and all that the ladies could prevail upon my master for, was a dancing match before he left this county: But Miss Darnford said, It should then be at their house; for, truly, if she might not be at the wedding, she would be affronted, and come no more hither, till we had been there.
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