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At the age of seven years she was provided with a pair by a great-great-aunt, a kind old lady living at Fareham, in Hampshire, where they were still in use. How interesting the little circles looked stamped upon the muddy road, and how nearly down upon one's nose one was at every other step! But even with all her success, Miss Mitford was not out of her troubles. She writes to Mr.
The torpedo experiments against the Resistance were resumed on June 13, when the old ironclad suffered some rough treatment. As the experiment was understood to be the last of the second series, and was fully expected to have a sensational termination, a considerable number of interested spectators were attracted to the scene in Fareham Creek.
Spellbound by that strange spectacle, Fareham stood and gazed, and Angela was afraid to urge him to take the boat on to Fareham House, anxious as she was to span those few hundred yards of distance, to be assured of her sister's safety. They waited thus nearly an hour, the sky ever increasing in brilliancy, and the sounds of voices and tramp of hurrying feet growing with every minute.
I shall have some company, though the drove have gone to the Stewarts' in a hope of getting asked to supper which but a few of them can realise in her mean lodgings. You had better stay. I may have Buckhurst, Sedley, De Malfort, and a few more of the pretty fellows enough to empty your pockets at basset." "Your ladyship is all goodness," said Fareham, quickly. De Malfort's name had decided him.
"'Tis the name you called him last week when his dirty shoes left marks on the stairs. He changes his shoes in my presence," added Papillon, disgustedly. "I saw a hole in his stocking. Monsieur de Malfort calls him Cut-Caper." A month later the Oxford Gazette brought Lady Fareham the welcomest news that she had read for ever so long.
Silence about other people's affairs would best become a young miss who had made herself so notorious. As for the children, Lady Fareham had no doubt that their father, who had ever lavished more affection upon them than he bestowed upon his wife, might be trusted with the care of them, however abominable his conduct might be in other matters.
Nay, surely she needs no protector out-of-doors, when she has Fareham and me within!" "Beauty has always need of defenders." "Not such beauty as Angela's. In the first place, her charms are of no dazzling order; and in the second, she has a coldness of temper and an old-fashioned wisdom which would safeguard her amidst the rabble rout of Comus." "There I believe you are right, Lady Fareham.
She had been kept aloof from that libertine crew; but was she any better than they? Was Fareham, who openly scorned the royal debauchee, was he any better than the King? She remembered how he had talked of Lord Sandwich, making excuses for a perverted love. She had heard him speak of other offenders in the same strain.
Such a confusion of fine ladies and armed men breast-plates and blue scarves fiddles squeaking in the salon, trumpets sounding in the square below!" In a letter of later date Lady Fareham expatiated upon the folly of her sister's spiritual guides. "I am desolated, ma mie, by the absurd restriction which forbids you to profit by my New Year's gift.
Why, here is even plain John Evelyn, that most pious of pedants, pleading for the enlistment of a troop of Gallic substantives and adjectives to eke out our native English!" Fareham told Angela much of his past life during the freedom of that long tete-a-tete, talking to her as if she had indeed been a young sister from whom he had been separated since her childhood.
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