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For instance, I am happy with you." Isabel stopped and looked back. Hardyman's language was becoming a little too explicit. "Surely we have lost Mrs. Drumblade and my aunt," she said. "I don't see them anywhere." "You will see them directly; they are only a long way behind." With this assurance, he returned, in his own obstinate way, to his one object in view.
It was so seldom one met with persons of trained intellect in society. Mrs. Drumblade was already informed of Miss Pink's earlier triumphs in the instruction of youth. Mrs. Drumblade had not been blessed with children herself; but she had nephews and nieces, and she was anxious about their education, especially the nieces. What a sweet, modest girl Miss Isabel was!
Mrs. Drumblade could assume a grave dignity of manner when the occasion called for it. She was grave, she was dignified, when Hardyman performed the ceremonies of introduction. She would not say she was charmed to meet Miss Pink the ordinary slang of society was not for Miss Pink's ears she would say she felt this introduction as a privilege.
Drumblade handed it to him, dexterously crumpled up again as she had found it. "No bad news, dear Alfred, I hope?" she said, in her most affectionate manner. Hardyman snatched the letter from her, without answering, and led Isabel out of the tent. "Read that!" he said, when they were alone. "And tell me at once whether it's true or false." Isabel read the letter.
Drumblade accepted the position thus offered with the most amiable readiness. In her own private mind she placed an interpretation on her brother's motives which did him the grossest injustice. She believed that Hardyman's designs on Isabel contemplated the most profligate result. To assist this purpose, while the girl's nearest relative was supposed to be taking care of her, was Mrs.
If you wished to feast your eyes on luxury you went to the stables. The stud-farm being described, the introduction to Hardyman's sister follows in due course. The Honorable Lavinia Hardyman was, as all persons in society know, married rather late in life to General Drumblade. It is saying a great deal, but it is not saying too much, to describe Mrs.
Drumblade, finding the letter within her reach, coolly possessed herself of it; recognized her mother's handwriting; and read these lines: "I have only now succeeded in persuading your father to let me write to you. For God's sake, break off your marriage at any sacrifice.
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