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Erme; and he entered into a description of his sister's doings; her perfect content with their seclusion, and her influence over the dependants.
John laughed. 'No, I give up the hope of a Petruchio. 'But Mr. Wingfield, I thought 'Wingfield! said John, starting. 'No, no, that's not likely. 'Nor Lord St. Erme! 'I hope not. He is fancy-bit, I suppose, but he is not her superior. Life with him would harden rather than tame her. No.
This quiet day, only diversified by a call from Lord St. Erme and Lady Lucy, and by accompanying Mrs. Moss to make some visits to old friends in the town, brought Violet to a fuller comprehension of her own family. Her mother was what she herself might have become but for John.
I know I have seemed to trifle with you; but false shame hindered me from confessing how matters really stood. You ought to rejoice in being freed from such as I am. 'But with time! exclaimed Lord St. Erme, in broken words. 'May I not hope that time and earnest endeavours ? 'Hope nothing, said Theodora. 'Every one would tell you you have had a happy escape. 'And is this all?
The light had been long subdued, and the chamber was dim as dimmest twilight, when suddenly, with a smile, Eunané cried "It is morning already! and there, why, there is Erme." She stretched out her arms as if to greet the one creature she had loved perhaps more dearly than she loved those now beside her.
Nobody ever knew it that offended principle was all his own. In addition to his expenses he was to be conveniently paid, and I found myself able to help him, for the usual fat book, to a plausible arrangement with the usual fat publisher. I naturally inferred that his obvious desire to make a little money was not unconnected with the prospect of a union with Gwendolen Erme.
Erme was allowed to follow us. 'And why did you consent! 'I don't know. Yes, I do, though; but that makes it worse. It was because my perverse temper was vexed at your warning me, said Theodora, looking down, much ashamed. 'Then you never meant to accept him! exclaimed her father. 'No, not exactly that; I thought I might, said she, slowly, and with difficulty.
He'd call it letters, he'd call it life, but it was all one thing. In what he said I now seemed to understand that he spoke equally for Gwendolen, to whom, as soon as Mrs. Erme was sufficiently better to allow her a little leisure, he made a point of introducing me.
Corvick, who had promised a review of it, had not even had time to read it; he had gone to pieces in consequence of news requiring as on precipitate reflexion he judged that he should catch the night- mail to Paris. He had had a telegram from Gwendolen Erme in answer to his letter offering to fly to her aid.
'Ah! if you would follow Emma's advice, and call the baby Osyth, after the first Prioress, you might have a chance from that quarter. It could not be Mr. Fotheringham, the only poet she could think of, and she could only beg to be told. 'There is one whom a Wrangerton woman should not forget. 'Lord St. Erme! You ARE laughing at me, Theodora. He never even saw Johnnie!
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