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Updated: June 26, 2025
I had some idea of giving my mind to it, they made such a fuss about it at Everingham; but it requires a devilish deal of history, I believe, and all that sort of thing. 'Ah! that's a bore, said his companion. 'It is difficult to turn to with a new thing when you are not in the habit of it. I never could manage charades. Mr. Ormsby, passing by, stopped.
Would he have persevered, and uprightly, Fanny must have been his reward, and a reward very voluntarily bestowed, within a reasonable period from Edmund's marrying Mary. Had he done as he intended, and as he knew he ought, by going down to Everingham after his return from Portsmouth, he might have been deciding his own happy destiny. But he was pressed to stay for Mrs.
'I am sorry that they have gone by, said Lady Theresa. 'Everything has gone by that is beautiful, said Lord Henry. 'Life is much easier, said Lord Everingham. 'Life easy! said Lord Henry. 'Life appears to me to be a fierce struggle. 'Manners are easy, said Coningsby, 'and life is hard. 'And I wish to see things exactly the reverse, said Lord Henry.
To think that I have been obliged to refuse the Stantons' ball and the dinner-party at Everingham. How dull these long winter evenings will be, Olive!"
They formed into procession, the Duchess distributing rosemary; Buckhurst swaggering with all the majesty of Tamerlane, his mock court irresistibly humorous with their servility; and the sweet voice of Lady Everingham chanting the first verse of the canticle, followed in the second by the rich tones of Lady Theresa: I. Caput Apri defero Reddens laudes Domino.
'But will you advance, will you move? And where will you advance, and how will you move? said Lady Everingham. 'I think we have had quite enough of advancing, said his Lordship. 'I had no idea your Ladyship was a member of the Movement party, he added, with a sarcastic grin.
'The match that has been proclaimed to-day has greatly surprised me, said Lady Wallinger. 'Indeed! said Coningsby: 'I confess I was long prepared for it. And it seems to me the most natural alliance conceivable, and one that every one must approve. 'Lady Everingham seems much surprised at it. 'Ah! Lady Everingham is a brilliant personage, and cannot deign to observe obvious circumstances.
My poor aunt always felt affected if within ten miles of the sea, which the Admiral of course never believed, but I know it was so. I am at your service and Henry's, at an hour's notice. I should like the scheme, and we would make a little circuit, and shew you Everingham in our way, and perhaps you would not mind passing through London, and seeing the inside of St. George's, Hanover Square.
Lady Everingham proposed that they should all ride over on the morrow, and she appealed to her husband for his approbation, instantly given, for though she loved admiration, and he apparently was an iceberg, they were really devoted to each other. Then there was a consultation as to their arrangements. The Duchess would drive over in her pony chair with Theresa.
"I do not defend him. I leave him entirely to your mercy, and when he has got you at Everingham, I do not care how much you lecture him. But this I will say, that his fault, the liking to make girls a little in love with him, is not half so dangerous to a wife's happiness as a tendency to fall in love himself, which he has never been addicted to.
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