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With both, you know very well that I can manage without either the Cullamore title or property. The Gourlay property is as good if not better. Come, then, cheer up; if the agency of the Cullamore property is gone, we shall have that on the Gourlay side to look to." "Dunroe, my dear fellow," replied Norton, "I am thinking of nothing so selfish.
This is altogether inexplicable, upon principles affecting only the ordinary powers of common humanity. Then she affirmed, prophesied, or what you will, that Lucy and Dunroe will be married willingly and happily!
Patrick but you are Morty O'Flaherty! Confound it, my dear Morty, why didn't you make yourself known at once? it would have relieved both of us." "One of us, you mane," replied Morty, with a wink. "Upon my soul I am glad to free you, Morty. And how are you, man alive? In a snug berth here, I see, with the father of my friend, Lord Dunroe." "Ha!" exclaimed Morty, shrewdly; "is that it?
Now I have seen you blush with my own eyes, Emily; nay, upon my honor, you blush again this moment." "Dunroe," observed his father, "you are teasing your sister; forbear." "But don't you see, my lord," persisted his son, "the absolute necessity for giving her a course of fashionable life, if it were only to remove this constitutional blemish.
'We are going on swimmingly' as Jonah said to the whale, or the whale to Jonah, I cannot say which, is an expression which I have frequently heard, and I took it for granted that it was a scriptural quotation. Your lordship is not aware, besides, that I am afflicted with a very bad memory." "Perfectly aware of it, Dunroe: since I have been forced to observe that you forget every duty of life.
"Haw! My name is Norton, a friend of Lord Dunroe's." "Well, Mr. Norton, if you will have the goodness to mention the business which causes me the honor of your visit, I will thank you; but I beg to assure you, that I am not a man to be pumped either by Lord Dunroe or any of his friends. You compel me to speak very plainly, sir." "Haw!
Next to the hated marriage, however, that which pressed most severely upon her was the recollection of the manly and admirable qualities of him whom she had now forever lost, especially as contrasted with those of Dunroe.
If it were discovered, she is ruined; to blush being, as your lordship knows, contrary to all the laws and statutes of fashion in that case made and provided." "Dunroe," said his father, "I intend you shall spend part of the summer and all the autumn in Ireland, with us." "Oh, yes, John, you must come," said his sister, clapping her snow-white hands in exultation at the thought.
"I have seen Miss Gourlay," replied the other, "and if it were only from motives of humanity, we must try, by every means consistent with honor, to stop or retard her marriage with Dunroe." "But how are we to do so?" "I know not at present; but I shall think of it. This is most unfortunate.
"Well, Dunroe," said the baronet, "what's the news? How did it go off?" "Just as we expected," replied the other. "Vapors, entreaties, and indignation. I give you my honor, she asked me to become her advocate with you, in order to get released from the engagement. That was rather cool, wasn't it?" "And what did you say?" "Why, the truth is, I conducted the affair altogether on a new principle.
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