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'That was a very pretty meeting, said Isabel to her husband, when no witness was present but little Fanny. 'What, between his lordship and my uncle? 'You know better. 'My dear, your mother once tried match-making for Fitzjocelyn. Be warned by her example. 'I am doing no such thing. I am only observing what every one sees. 'Don't be so common-place. 'That's all disdain you must condescend.
Jem abstained from, as usual, proposing Fitzjocelyn for his example, but only said that Walter was very susceptible of good impressions. 'And most heartily we thank you for all you have done for him, said Isabel, doubting whether Walter's mother appreciated the full extent of it; 'indeed, we have all a great deal to thank you for.
All the ground Fitzjocelyn had gained in the last six weeks had been lost; and for the future, James would not predict. 'An uncomfortable matter, said Mrs. Ponsonby, chiefly for the sake of reading her daughter's feelings. 'If it were not in poor Louis's mind already, his father and James would plant it there by their contrary efforts. 'Oh! I hope it will come right, said Mary.
Can you believe this tall creature is poor dear Henry's daughter? as Clara hastened to greet her father's playfellow, with an alacrity which piqued Lady Britton into a supercilious aside to Lord Fitzjocelyn that the Hendersons were in poor circumstances, and no one visited them. 'And is no one here whom I know? Not one of the old set, George? asked the old lady, mournfully.
'Worse, said Fitzjocelyn; 'he wanted to threaten that, unless I would oblige him now, there were matters which it was his duty to lay before the trustees. I told him he would do, of course, whatever was his duty; whereupon he thought my Lordship was interested in Mr. Frost. 'Intolerably impertinent! I hope you set him down! 'I told him that neither Mr.
It is necessary for me to know before to-morrow how I am to write to Lord Fitzjocelyn. 'Pshaw! Mary, I've settled that young fellow! 'Papa, I don't think you know
'Oh, that he had killed an infant trout of the value of three farthings! Three giant keepers made oath to it, but I had his own mother's word that he was washing his feet! No one could help laughing, but Fitzjocelyn was far past perceiving any such thing. 'Urge what I would, they fined him. I talked to old Brewster!
But Isabel advanced with outstretched hand and flushing cheek, and her murmured 'Thank you' and confiding pressure drew from him such a grasp as could not easily be forgotten. Clara's heart was all the lighter because she was sure that Fitzjocelyn had forgiven, and, what was more, forgotten.
She replied, that she would never say a word to change his notions of right, and she treated poor Oliver with all the lofty reserve that she had formerly practised upon possible suitors. When Fitzjocelyn came in the afternoon to take leave, before his return to London, Mrs. Frost begged him to use his influence with James. 'Who would have thought it would have so turned out? she said.
'But, Jem, you could be so useful in the parish! and your uncle could not wish you to do anything unhandsome by the trustees 'I wish him to do nothing, ma'am, said Oliver. 'If he is too high and mighty to accept a favour, it is his own loss. We can do without him, if he prefers the Fitzjocelyn patronage. Much good may it do him!
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