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"A sort of half-price theatre," said Louis with a sneer. "I don't believe they find the looking on such fun as you think," said Marion, who was astonished at herself. "Suppose you try if they wouldn't like to take part and offer your place in the Cantata to Jemima Dobbs." "Well done, Sis!" and Louis applauded softly. Isabelle's lip curled.
Halloo, good Captain van Holp," called out Lambert in Dutch, "what say you to stopping at yonder farmhouse and warming our toes?" "Who is cold?" asked Peter, turning around. "Benjamin Dobbs." "Benjamin Dobbs shall be warmed," and the party was brought to a halt. On the Way to Haarlem
"You won't find that there is any doubt on that head in the City as to Broughton," he said. "I shan't ask in the City, and if I did, I should not believe what people told me. I think there are sillier folks in the City than anywhere else. What did he give for that picture upstairs which the young man painted?" "What, Mrs Dobbs Broughton's portrait?" "You don't call that a portrait, do you?
And so, in such frame of mind, for Harriet's confidence was so great that it could not but infect them, Dobbs Ferry was reached. The girl waved them a lively farewell as she stepped aboard the barge which was to take her across the river. "It won't be a week ere I shall be back, Peggy," she cried. "I don't mind saying now that I have reason for my belief that Sir Guy will do as I wish in this.
Mrs Dobbs Broughton, a very beautiful woman, who certainly was not yet thirty-five, let her worst enemies say what they might, had been painted by Conway Dalrymple as a Grace. There were, of course, three Graces in the picture, but each Grace was Mrs Dobbs Broughton repeated. We all know how Graces stand sometimes; two Graces looking one way, and one the other.
Mrs Dobbs Broughton probably loved her husband in a sensible, humdrum way, feeling him to be a bore, knowing him to be vulgar, aware that he often took a good deal more wine than was good for him, and that he was almost as uneducated as a hog. Yet she loved him, and showed her love by taking care that he should have things for dinner which he liked to eat.
Madalina Demolines had been right when she talked of her friend Maria's principles. Dobbs Broughton had been so far lucky in that jump in the dark which he had made in taking a wife to himself, that he had not fallen upon a really vicious woman, or upon a woman of strong feeling.
"Dobbs heads it, as he did the first one," said Percy; "they've changed their tactics, and will get at Joe on their way home from that confounded meeting. Dave, can't you keep him from that?" and Percy, forgetting himself, peered anxiously over his glasses. "No," said David shortly, "and I sha'n't try." "You're an idiot," cried Percy, in a passion, "a stupid, blind old donkey!
For a second even Inez Catheron quailed before the storm she had raised; then black eyes met blue, with defiant scorn. "Not all the soap-boiler's daughters in London or England shall send me from Catheron Royals! Not all the Miss Dobbs that ever bore that distinguished appellation shall drive me forth. You may go to-morrow if you will. I shall not."
Mr Adolphus Crosbie, secretary to the Board at the General Committee Office, was standing on the rug before the fire. "Who will be there?" Eames had asked of his friend, when the suggestion to go and dine with Dobbs Broughton had been made to him. "Impossible to say," Conway had replied. "A certain horrible fellow of the name of Musselboro, will almost certainly be there.
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