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But a girl like Cecilia Halkett one can't call her a girl, and it won't do to say Goddess, and queen and charmer are out of the question, though she's both, and angel into the bargain; but, by George! what a woman to call wife, you say; and a man attached to a woman like that never can let himself look small.
Far behind in the race for Miss Halkett, and uncertain of a settled advantage in his other rivalry with Beauchamp, he fixed his mind on the widow, and as Beauchamp did not stand in his way, but on the contrary might help him for she, like the generality of women, admired Nevil Beauchamp in spite of her feminine good sense and conservatism Cecil began to regard the man he felt less opposed to with some recognition of his merits.
'Leaders who cut down expenditure, to create a panic that doubles the outlay! I know them. 'A panic, Nevil. Cecilia threw stress on the memorable word. He would hear no reminder in it. The internal condition of the country was now the point for seriously-minded Englishmen. 'My dear boy, what have you seen of the country? Colonel Halkett inquired.
Colonel Halkett gave up his daughter for lost when she did not appear at the breakfast-table: for yet more decidedly lost when the luncheon saw her empty place; and as time drew on toward the dinner-hour, he began to think her lost beyond hope, embarked for good and all with the madbrain.
A man, increasing in length like a telescope gradually reaching its end for observation, and coming to the height of a landmark, as if raised by ropes, was rising from the ground beside him. 'Shall we trot on, Miss Halkett? Cecilia said, 'No. 'Now I see a third fellow, said Palmet. 'It's the other fellow, the Denham-Shrapnel-Radical meeting . . . Lydiard's his name: writes books.!
It seemed to her, she could not tell why, that no woman should raise her hand against a man, and that this restraint was less for her dignity than for his. "I'll do it with pleasure," George was saying. "Thank you very much," she murmured, and named the time. "Is Mr. Halkett better?"
Lord Croyston's favourite country residence was in the neighbourhood of old Mrs. Beauchamp, on the Upper Thames. Speaking of Nevil Beauchamp a second time, he alluded to his relations with his great-aunt, said his prospects were bad, that she had interdicted her house to him, and was devoted to her other great-nephew. 'And so she should be, said Colonel Halkett.
Mildred Caniper seldom thwarted her, and she knew that every day George Halkett rode or walked where he might see her, and her memory of that splendid summer was to be one of sunlight blotted with the shapes of man and horse moving across the moor.
Her woeful: 'No letter for me! was piteous. When that was heard no longer, her silence and famished gaze chilled Cecilia. At night Rosamund eyed her husband expressionlessly, with her head leaning back in her chair, to the sorrow of the ladies beholding her. Ultimately the contagion of her settled misery took hold of Cecilia. Colonel Halkett was induced by his daughter and Mrs.
'I have no doubt Shrapnel has a scheme for Jenny. The old communist and socialist! He folded up the letter: 'A curious composition, is it not, Miss Halkett? Cecilia was thinking that he tempted her to be the apologist of even such a letter. 'One likes to know the worst, and what's possible, said the colonel.
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