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'Victor conjured up a day when this darling Fredi, a child, stood before a famous picture in the Brera, at Milan; when he and her mother noticed the child's very studious graveness; and they had talked of it; he remarking, that she disapproved of the Patriarch; and Nataly, that she was taken with Hagar's face. He seemed surprised at her not having heard from Dudley. 'How is that? said he.
I was down in the country early this morning, looking over the house, with Taplow, my architect; and he speaks fairly well of the contractors. Yes, down at Lakelands; and saw my first lemon butterfly in a dell of sunshine, out of the wind, and had half a mind to catch it for Fredi, and should have caught it myself, if I had! The truth is, we three are country born and bred; we pine in London.
He names Tuesday next week. 'By all means. 'She? 'Fredi? poor Fredi! ah, my poor girl, yes! No, she knows nothing. Here is the truth of it. she, the legitimate, lives: they say she lives.
Tears lined her eyelids. 'Who would not be, dearest dada! But there is nothing to bear except the honour. 'You like him? You and I always have the same tastes, Fredi. Now there was a reddening of the sun at the mount; all the sky aflame. How could he know that it was not the heart in the face!
Fredi has another heroine now, though she worships her old one still; she never abandons her old ones. You've heard the story over and over! Mr. Fenellan nodded; he had a tenderness for the garrulity of Old Veuve, and for the damsel. Chatter on that subject ran pleasantly with their entertainment. Mr.
'Victor conjured up a day when this darling Fredi, a child, stood before a famous picture in the Brera, at Milan; when he and her mother noticed the child's very studious graveness; and they had talked of it; he remarking, that she disapproved of the Patriarch; and Nataly, that she was taken with Hagar's face. He seemed surprised at her not having heard from Dudley. 'How is that? said he.
'Confirms Fredi, he said, showing it, and praising it as commendable, properly fervid. She made pretence to read, she saw the words. Her short beat of wings was over.
An effort to imagine a reproof, showed him her spirit through her eyes: in her deeds too: she had already done work on the road: Colney Durance, Dartrey Fenellan, anything but sentimentalists either of them, strongly backing her, upholding her. Victor could no longer so naturally name her Fredi. He spoke it hastily, under plea of some humorous tenderness, when he ventured.
And Fredi away, he might be down again for no love of a slippery bit, proved slippery, one might guess, by a predecessor or two. Ta-ta-ta-to and mum! Still, in justice to the little woman, she had been serviceable. She would be still more so, if a member of Parliament now on his back here we are with the murder-eye again!
'Fredi was pleased. 'Yes, she was, dear. 'She is our girl, my love. "I could live and die here!" Live, she may. There's room enough. Nataly saw the door of a covert communication pointed at in that remark. She gathered herself for an effort to do battle. 'She's quite a child, Victor. 'The time begins to run.
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