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'My brothers all took tricks, said one young lady, who had inherited her mother's delicate beauty, while the rest of the family resembled a singularly unhandsome father which enabled her to speak without very deep resentment. 'So did poor dear papa, said Gilda, 'but that was the one taken in fancy dress, and he would go as Dante. 'Nothing could stand against Gurgoyle, observed Caffyn.
'Do you know that I've just begun to think nothing would give me greater satisfaction now than to hear that the rumour you told me of was an accomplished fact. 'And that Mabel was engaged to Mr. Ashburn? Do you really mean it? cried Gilda, and her face cleared again. 'I really mean it, said Caffyn smiling; and it is just possible that he really did.
She went back to little 'Gilda, who was ailing, and sobbed over the child, whilst the others stood looking on, dimly understanding that with Hirschvogel was going all the warmth of their bodies, all the light of their hearth.
She liked to have a few rising young literary men in her train, with whom she might discuss subjects loftier than ordinary society cares to grasp; but she was careful at the same time that her daughter should not share too frequently in these intellectual privileges, for Gilda Featherstone was very handsome, and literary men are as impressionable as other people.
"What will Santa Claus find for 'Gilda if she be good?" murmured Dorothea over the child's sunny head; for, however hard poverty might pinch, it could never pinch so tightly that Dorothea would not find some wooden toy and some rosy apples to put in her little sister's socks.
Immediately upon this the curtain went up on the last act, and his Excellency held up his hand to command silence. "Madame," said Indiman, as he handed the Countess Gilda to her carriage, "I swear to you that the blunder I have unintentionally committed shall be atoned for. I ask but a hint the slightest of clews." "With pleasure, monsieur.
'I should like all those very much, said Vincent, who could not accept this offer as a perfect substitute, 'but can't you find one of yourself, not even an old one? 'I think I can give you one after all, said Mabel; 'wait a minute. And as she came back after a minute's absence she said, 'Here's one I had promised to Gilda Featherstone, but Gilda can wait and you can't.
He is only a scholar yet, but he is a happy scholar, and promises to be a great man. Sometimes he goes back for a few days to Hall, where the gold ducats have made his father prosperous. In the old house room there is a large white porcelain stove of Munich, the king's gift to Dorothea and 'Gilda.
But of late a coldness had sprung up between Gilda and herself which made it unlikely that any interference would be taken in good part; and besides, there was something invidious in such a course, to which she could not bring herself without feeling more certain than she did that it was necessary and would be of any avail.
Ashburn and I were just discussing somebody's character, said Miss Featherstone, by way of ending an awkward pause. 'Poor somebody! drawled Caffyn, with an easy impertinence which he had induced many girls, and Gilda amongst them, to tolerate, if not admire. 'You need not pity her, said Gilda, indignantly; 'we were defending her. 'Ah! said Caffyn, 'from one another.
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