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I shouldn't wonder if he becomes a prosperous and most respectable country gentleman, and quite a model to his neighbours." "It doesn't seem to matter much; does it?" said Clarissa, when she told the story to Mary and Patience. "What doesn't matter?" asked Mary. "Whether a man cares for the girl he's going to marry, or doesn't care at all. Ralph Newton cannot care very much for Miss Eardham."
Would you mind calling at eleven to-morrow? Of course I shan't tell Sir George, unless you think he ought to be told." Ralph promised that he would call, though he felt at the moment that Lady Eardham was an interfering old fool. Why should she want to do anything; and why should she give even a hint as to telling Sir George?
"Yes, you did, and I felt it very much, very much indeed." "How did I behave badly?" "If you do not know, I'm sure that I shall not tell you." Ralph did not know; but he went home from his ride an unengaged man, and may perhaps have been thought to behave badly on that occasion also. But Lady Eardham, though she was sometimes despondent and often cross, was gifted with perseverance.
Nobody could say that he had been mercenary, and he hated a mercenary feeling in marriages. Nobody could say that the match was beneath him, and all people were agreed that Augusta Eardham was a very fine girl. As to her style, there could be no doubt about it. There might be some little unpleasantness in communicating the fact to the Underwoods, but that could be done by letter.
"Now, Mr. Newton," she said, "I am going to show you that I put the greatest confidence in you." "So you may," said Ralph, wondering whether one of the girls was to be offered to him, out of hand. At the present moment he was so low in spirits that he would probably have taken either. "I have had a letter," said Lady Eardham, whispering the words into his ear; and then she paused.
He knew the meaning of that picnic as well as does the reader, as well as did Lady Eardham; but it had come to that with him that he was willing to yield. It cannot exactly be said for him that out of all the feminine worth that he had seen, he himself had chosen Gus Eardham as being the most worthy, or even that he had chosen her as being to him the most charming.
He had, of course, "assisted" at his brother's marriage, in which the heavy burden of the ceremony was imposed on the shoulders of a venerable dean, who was related to Lady Eardham, and had since that time been all alone at his parsonage.
I think it my duty to tell your ladyship he's engaged to marry my girl, Maryanne Neefit. Yours most respectful, THOMAS NEEFIT, Breeches-Maker, Conduit Street. "It's a lie," said Ralph. "I'm sure it's a lie," said Lady Eardham, "only I thought it right to show it you." Ralph took Gus Eardham down to dinner, and did his very best to make himself agreeable.
As he entered the room he felt the warmth of the welcoming. The girls, one and all, had ever so many things to say to him. They all hunted, and they all wanted him to look at horses for them. Lady Eardham was more matronly than ever, and at the same time was a little fussy. She would not leave him among the girls, and at last succeeded in getting him off into a corner of the back drawing-room.
"You see what she says, Lady Eardham," said Ralph. "You promised you would before dinner, my dear," said Lady Eardham, "and you ought not to change your mind. If you'll be good-natured enough to come, two of them will go." Of course it was understood that he would come. "Nothing on earth, mamma, shall ever induce me to play bésique again," said Josephine, yawning.
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