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Updated: June 16, 2025
I thought the pleasure-ground finer than anything so much grander than Lord St. Erme's; but this! Did you keep it to the last to surprise me! 'I forgot it, said Arthur, laughing to see her look shocked. 'It is not in my line. The natives never have any sport out of a show-place. 'It is simply a bore, said Theodora, 'a self-sacrifice to parade.
Erme's absence and neglect to make a prey of the estate. The marriage is to take place immediately, and poor Mr. Jones is in much distress at the dread of being asked to perform the ceremony, without the consent of the young man's family. 'He cannot do it, exclaimed the young lady; 'you had better write and tell him so. 'I am afraid, said Mr.
After that, one was meeting the Mosses for ever; indeed, we had to call on the old fellow to get leave for fishing in that water of Lord St. Erme's. He has a very pretty sort of little place out of the town close to the park, and and somehow the weather was too bright for any sport, and the stream led by their garden. 'I perceive, said John.
I'm come to town about Lord St. Erme's business go back by the mail train. Are you dining at home? Can you give me a dinner? 'Oh, yes! said Violet; but fears came over her of Arthur's not being pleased, especially supposing he should bring back any one with him. And therewith came dismay at finding herself giving no better welcome to her own brother, and she eagerly asked for all at home.
Rather annoyed, Theodora laughed, and turning from the portfolio, asked if she did not also draw? 'A little; but mine are too bad to be looked at. Theodora insisted, and the drawings were produced: all the best had been done under Lord St. Erme's instruction.
The ornaments were shaved off, and she heartily wished them on again. What could be said when Lucy timidly begged to know how she liked the change in St. Erme's face, and whether she shared her regrets for his dear little moustache? Alas! such a sacrifice gave him a claim, and she felt as if each departed hair was a mesh in the net to ensnare her liberty.
'Yes, said Violet; 'Lady Mary Lord St. Erme's aunt. He was Lord St. Erme's guardian. 'Then that is what it is, said Arthur, sententiously. 'Did you not tell me that St. Erme had been examining you about Percy?
Erme's' remarks on it were certain to be brought to her the next day; if a liking or a wish, he was instantly taking measures for its gratification. She might try to keep him at a distance, but where was the use of it when, if his moustached self was safely poetizing in the Black Forest, his double in blue muslin was ever at her elbow? By and by it was no longer a moustached self.
It was there as the dark-eyed Isabel; again as Judith, in the Vision of Fair Women; it slept as the Beauty in the Wood; and even in sweet St. Agnes, she met it refined and purified; so that at last she observed, 'It is strange how like this is to my mother. 'I think it must be, said Lady Lucy; 'for I was quite struck by your likeness to St. Erme's ideal sketches.
Arthur was apt to call the distance from Wrangerton to Lassonthwayte seven miles, instead of five, and soon it grew to nine, with a bad road and a shocking hill. This was after he had discovered from Mr. Hunt that Lord St. Erme's affairs had fallen into a most unsatisfactory state, while the Messrs.
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