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Lady Maria was a goodnatured girl, and meant no harm in repeating her father's words; touched up, it is true, by some of the dislike she herself felt to the intimate alliance proposed, which would make her sister-in-law to the daughter of an "upstart attorney," "not received in the county," "always trying to push his way into the set above him," "claiming connection with the De Wintons of Castle, who, as she well knew, only laughed when he was spoken of, and said they were more rich in relations than they were aware of" "not people papa would ever like her to know, whatever might be the family connection."
He was, I believe, recently a groom or helper in the castle stables: and he enlisted into one of the two troops now quartered in the castle with the knowledge and approbation of Sir Morgan. I know nothing of him more than this, and that he bears the character amongst his fellow troopers of a goodnatured young man.
He carried with him a letter from Hill to the Sheriff of Argyleshire, Sir Colin Campbell of Ardkinglass, a respectable gentleman, who, in the late reign, had suffered severely for his Whig principles. In this letter the Colonel expressed a goodnatured hope that, even out of season, a lost sheep, and so fine a lost sheep, would be gladly received.
Every rich and goodnatured lord was pestered by authors with a mendicancy so importunate, and a flattery so abject, as may in our time seem incredible. The patron to whom a work was inscribed was expected to reward the writer with a purse of gold. The fee paid for the dedication of a book was often much larger than the sum which any publisher would give for the copyright.
'Did you find the cousin? 'Yes, we did. 'Oh! Then what is he like? 'You will see when he comes on Monday. 'Coming oh! And is he so very handsome? 'I can see how pretty a woman your Aunt Louisa must have been. 'News! laughed Virginia; 'when mamma is always preaching to me to be like her! 'Is he goodnatured? asked Louisa.
For had not I, a follower of the Prophet, and therefore a despiser of graven images in every shape or form, come to treat this monstrous and misshapen creature, half man, half beast, as a sort of familiar, even greeting him on my entry with the words with which I might have saluted a living unbeliever, 'May your days be peaceful, spoken in goodnatured jest, of course, and without one thought at the time of the sacrilege of which I was guilty?
She sat up on her heels again and rubbed the end of her nose with the back of her hand as if puzzled for a moment, but she ended quite positively. "Well, she's that sensible an' hard workin' an' goodnatured an' clean that no one could help likin' her whether they'd seen her or not. When I'm goin' home to her on my day out I just jump for joy when I'm crossin' the moor."
Honest little Charlotte told Mrs. Beckett the whole story, and all her eager wishes for to-morrow evening; and Jane sighed and puzzled herself, and knew it would make Martha very angry, but could not help being goodnatured.
To all men not utterly blinded by passion these difficulties appeared insuperable. The most unscrupulous slaves of power showed signs of uneasiness. Dryden muttered that the King would only make matters worse by trying to mend them, and sighed for the golden days of the careless and goodnatured Charles. Even Jeffreys wavered.
"She's always fearfully polite," some one else objected. "I never heard her use a single slang word." "Oh, well, Sally will cure her of that," Rosamond laughed. Eleanor sighed. It was so easy to be goodnatured that she couldn't understand anybody taking the trouble to sulk. "We must be nice to her anyway," she said decidedly. "She's Phyllis's twin, and she's in our class."
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