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See Report of Committee on South Australia, p. 78. Evidence of T. F. Elliot, Esq. Answer 733. From the same source, the report of this Parliamentary Committee in 1841, much of the information respecting Southern Australia is derived. To attempt to state accurately what the soil and capabilities of so vast an extent of country may be, would evidently be to attempt an impossibility.
"I am no match-maker, as you well know," said Lady Russell, "being much too well aware of the uncertainty of all human events and calculations. I only mean that if Mr Elliot should some time hence pay his addresses to you, and if you should be disposed to accept him, I think there would be every possibility of your being happy together.
The Duke of Portland, though always described as strongly and fondly attached to him, and Gilbert Elliot, who thought that Burke was right in his views on the Revolution, and right in expressing them, still could not forgive the open catastrophe, and for many months all the old habits of intimacy among them were entirely broken off. Burke did not bend to the storm.
"Stamped like an elephant," asserted Dr. Elliot. "But you were so immersed in your floral designs What kind of a play is it?" She turned upon him the sparkle of golden lights in wine-brown eyes. "It's a fairy bower. I'm going to do a bewitchment." "Upon what victim?" "Upon a newspaper. I'm going to be a fairy godmother sort of witch and save my foster-child by by arointing something out of print."
Meantime the editor of the "Clarion" was being quietly but persistently beset by another sermonizer, less cocksure of text than the Sweet Singer of Policy, but more subtle in influence. This was Miss Esmé Elliot. Already, the half-jocular partnership undertaken at the outset of their acquaintance had developed into a real, if somewhat indeterminate connection.
She had, to be sure, half in earnest, half in jest, maintained a bantering, platonic sort of friendship with George Elliot. She had danced, ridden, sung, and sketched with him; but so had she with twenty other young men; and as to coming to any thing tender with such a quick, brilliant, restless creature, Elliot would as soon have undertaken to sentimentalize over a glass of soda water.
"It's the Vanes' dance. Not going?" "Not asked. Besides, I'm a workingman these days." "So one might infer from your neglect of your friends. Hal, I've had a letter from Esmé Elliot." "Any message?" he asked lightly, but with startled blood. There was no answering lightness in her tones. "Yes. One I hate to give. Hal, she's engaged herself to Will Douglas.
Scott opened the door herself. "John Telfer, I declare!" cried she. "What can possibly have brought you here so late? I hope no accident has happened that you are not gone to the Minister's as usual." "No," said John, "there is no accident; the minister could not have me to read to-night, for the family are all occupied with the arrival of Capt. Elliot.
Then she rose and cried "Enter!" and ere I could speak she had passed into the oratory, and I was alone with Elliot. Elliot gave one low cry, and cast her arms about my neck, hiding her face on my breast, and sobbing as if her heart would break. "I have been mad, I have been bad!" she moaned. "Oh! say hard words to me, and punish me, my love."
It leaves men in the midst of society unbranded as vile, unmarked so that good women may shrink in disgust from them. It gives them a chance to prey upon the weak, as Mr. Van Dam purposed to do, and as he intended to induce Gus Elliot to do, and as multitudes of exquisitely dressed scoundrels are doing daily. If Mr. and Mrs.
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