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"Ermyntrude is arranging her treasures. Her bedroom looks out on the garden, and she is nailing up pictures, and draping the mantelpiece. She has piles and piles of photographs to arrange. They will keep her busy all day. It's ridiculous to suppose that they would go out the very first morning after their arrival. You know how it is with us when we come home after a few weeks' holiday!
"So do I you," said Win, but did not tell her that she was a sardine. This might be a worse epithet in a foreign language even than Lady Ermyntrude. "I'm for the toy department. What are you?" rapped out the clear little voice that matched the clear little personality a personality which, at the top of its pompadour, did not reach the tip of Win's ear. "Mine is called a two-hour bargain sale "
Poor as she was, there was no one in Surrey whose guidance would be more readily sought upon a question of precedence or of conduct than the Dame Ermyntrude Loring. She sat now with bowed back by the empty fireplace, and looked across at Nigel with all the harsh lines of her old ruddled face softening into love and pride.
"Of course Esme Darlington is still in despair, and Lady Ermyntrude goes about spreading scandal. But it doesn't seem to do much harm. She hasn't any more influence over my husband. He won't hear a word against me. Like a good dog, I suppose, he loves the hand which has beaten him." "You've got a will of iron, I believe," said Dion. She changed the subject.
"Nay, take it not to heart, dear lady!" said Nigel. "We have but to say the word and the King would stop at Waverley, where he and his court would find all that they could wish." "Never!" cried the Lady Ermyntrude. "It would be shame and disgrace to us forever if the King were to pass our door when he has graciously said that he was fain to enter in. Nay, I will do it.
"Even so I wooed your mother, Mary. Wooers were brisk in the olden time. To-morrow is Tuesday, and Tuesday is ever a lucky day. Alas! that the good Dame Ermyntrude is no longer with us to see it done! The old hound must run us down, Nigel, and I hear its bay upon my own heels; but my heart will rejoice that before the end I may call you son. Give me your hand, Mary, and yours, Nigel.
Whether this supposition was well founded or not, it can be said with certainty that Bale had secured at one stroke a footing in society and in politics, for shortly after his marriage to Lady Ermyntrude his father-in-law found him a safe seat in Parliament. Meanwhile Mr.
"There's only two years between them!" Darsie frowned, but continued her narrative in a heightened voice " Was laid in her arms, and her husband suggested `Ermyntrude'; she shuddered, and murmured softly, `Hannah plain Hannah! and plain Hannah she has been ever since!"
You got it without me and my feelings won't stand it!" Lady Ermyntrude and Betty threw themselves on a sofa together, chattering and laughing. Lady Winterbourne came up to Marcella and enquired after her. She was still slowly drawing off her gloves, when the drawing-room door opened again. "Tea, Panton!" said Lady Winterbourne, without turning her head, and in the tone of Lady Macbeth.
Two lay with their legs crossed, as being from the Crusades. Six others rested their feet upon lions, as having died in war. Four only lay with the effigy of their hounds to show that they had passed in peace. Of this famous but impoverished family, doubly impoverished by law and by pestilence, two members were living in the year of grace 1349 Lady Ermyntrude Loring and her grandson Nigel.
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