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"You are not quite satisfied with life, today, dear," said Kate; "I fear your book did not end to your satisfaction." "It did end, though," said the lady, "and that is something. What is there in life so difficult as to stop a book? If I wrote one, it would be as long as ten 'Sir Charles Grandisons, and then I never should end it, because I should die.
I have heard that Sir Ratcliffe Armine has not a thousand a year he can call his own. We are all so pleased, added Mrs. Montgomery Floyd, as if she were quite one of the family. 'Is it not delightful? 'They are to be married next month, said Lady Bellair. 'I did not quite make the match, but I did something. I love the Grandisons, because Lord Grandison was my son's friend fifty years ago.
It was so stupid to be always speaking sense! always polite! always courteous! "Two sir Charles Grandisons," she said, "are two too many!" And indeed the History of Sir Charles Grandison had its place in the small library free to them from childhood; but Christina knew nothing of him except by hearsay.
He had to endure an introduction to the Grandisons, and meet the eyes of his kind, haunted as he was by the Foolish Young Fellow. The idea that he might by any chance be identified with him held the poor youth in silent subjection. And it was horrible. For it was a continued outrage on the fair image he had in his heart.
That musical and thrilling voice, shall it again sound and echo in his enraptured ear? Ferdinand had reached Armine so many days before his calculated arrival, that he did not expect his family and the Grandisons to arrive for at least a week. What a respite did he not now feel this delay! if ever he could venture to think of the subject at all.
IT WAS settled that a year must elapse from the death of Lord Grandison before the young couple could be united: a reprieve which did not occasion Ferdinand acute grief. In the meantime the Grandisons were to pass at least the autumn at Armine, and thither the united families proposed soon to direct their progress.
He had to endure an introduction to the Grandisons, and meet the eyes of his kind, haunted as he was by the Foolish Young Fellow. The idea that he might by any chance be identified with him held the poor youth in silent subjection. And it was horrible. For it was a continued outrage on the fair image he had in his heart.
Ha! ha!" the hero burst out at a recollection. "What do you think, Rip? My father has some sort of System with me, it appears, and when I came to town the time before, he took me to some people the Grandisons and what do you think? one of the daughters is a little girl a nice little thing enough very funny and he wants me to wait for her! He hasn't said so, but I know it. I know what he means.
Ah! would he were here! 'Whom is Captain Armine going to marry? enquired Mr. Temple. 'Oh! a very proper person, said Lady Bellair. 'I forget her name. Miss Twoshoes, or something. What is her name, my dear? 'You mean Miss Grandison, madam? responded Mrs. Montgomery Floyd. 'To be sure, Miss Grandison, the great heiress. The only one left of the Grandisons. I knew her grandfather.
It was so stupid to be always speaking sense! always polite! always courteous! "Two sir Charles Grandisons," she said, "are two too many!" And indeed the History of Sir Charles Grandison had its place in the small library free to them from childhood; but Christina knew nothing of him except by hearsay.
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