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Whether you are in jest or earnest, my dear Dunroe, let me advise you to bring the moral courage and energies of a man to the contemplation of your life, in the first place; and in the next, to its improvement.
Norton, was a very foolish and unpleasant affair altogether." "Nothing could be more so, my lord. It was altogether wrong on the part of Dunroe, and so I told him." "Could you not have prevented it, Mr. Norton?" "Ha, ha, ha! very good, Lord Cullamore. Ask me could I prevent or check a flash of lightning.
"Sir, I should feel myself utterly unworthy of the good opinion which I trust I am honored with by your admirable daughter, were I any longer to remain silent upon a subject of the deepest importance to her future happiness. I understand that she is almost immediately about to become the wife of Lord Dunroe.
Norton," replied the Earl, with a slight irony in his manner, "not only for all you have done, but for all you propose to do, as you say." Norton shook his head peremptorily. "Pardon me, my lord, no thanks. I am overpaid by the pleasure of ranking Dunroe among the number of my friends." "You are too kind, indeed, Mr.
When Dunroe left him, which he did after some formal words of encouragement and comfort, to which the old man paid little attention, turning toward the door, which his son on going out had shut, he looked as if his eye followed him beyond the limits of the room, and exclaimed: "Alas! why was I not born above the ordinary range of the domestic affections?
Her objections to this marriage must proceed solely from inexperience. It is true, Lord Dunroe bears a very indifferent character, and if you could get any other nobleman with a better one as a husband for her, it would certainly be more agreeable." "It might, Tom; but I cannot.
"But, Dunroe," she said "John, I mean, won't you soon be able to get up, and to walk about, or, at all events, to take an airing with us in the carriage? Will you not, dear John?" "Yes, I hope so, Emily. By the way, Emily, you have grown quite a woman since I saw you last. It is now better than two years, I think, since then." "How did you like the Continent, John?"
Lucy knows that I am determined she shall marry Lord Dunroe, and I am not aware that she entertains any peculiar objection to him. In the mean time, I will have some conversation with her, in order to ascertain what her present and immediate feeling on the subject is. It is right that I should see my way in this."
Perhaps her ladyship may take a fancy to support the venerable peer against me in recommending the process of John Thrustout. If so, Dunroe, whatever happiness your marriage may bring yourself, it will bring nothing but bitterness and calamity to me.
The gentleman with whom he fought that unfortunate duel was forced into it by Dunroe, in consequence of his having paid some marked attentions to Miss Gourlay, when she and her mother were in Paris, some few months before Lady Gourlay's decease.
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