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That does not look like so positive an objection to you? 'To me personally, no, said Beauchamp. 'But Mr. Romfrey has not told me that I am to meet them. 'Perhaps he has not thought it worth while. It is not his way. He has asked you to come. You and Miss Halkett will be left to yourselves. Her father assured Mr. Romfrey that he should not go beyond advising her.
As for Nevil Beauchamp, in particular, his case, this penetrating lady said, was clear: he ought to be married. 'Could you make a sacrifice? she asked Cecilia playfully. 'Nevil Beauchamp and I are old friends, but we have agreed that we are deadly political enemies, Miss Halkett replied. 'It is not so bad for a beginning, said Mrs. Lespel. 'If one were disposed to martyrdom.
Austin raised his shoulders imperceptibly, saying to Miss Halkett: 'The turn will come to us as to others and go. Nothing earthly can escape that revolution. We have to meet it with a policy, and let it pass with measures carried and our hands washed of some of our party sins. I am, I hope, true to my party, but the enthusiasm of party I do not share.
It is not entirely with Colonel Halkett's consent. It is your uncle's influence with him that gives you your chance. Do you not care to avail yourself of it? Ever since he heard Dr. Shrapnel's letter to you, Colonel Halkett has, I am sure, been tempted to confound you with him in his mind: ah! Nevil, but recollect that it is only Mr. Romfrey who can help to give you your Cecilia.
English grumblers might well be asked what they had fought for, if they were not contented. Colonel Halkett mentioned a report that Nevil had received a slight thigh-wound of small importance.
He shrugged and left the house for his morning's walk across the fields. Colonel Halkett and Cecilia beheld him from the breakfast-room returning with Beauchamp, who had waylaid him and was hammering his part in the now endless altercation. It could be descried at any distance; and how fine was Mr. Romfrey's bearing! truly noble by contrast, as of a grave big dog worried by a small barking dog.
"But we're not." "Yes, in a way. Sorry he hadn't a nicer father to be sorry for." "What about ours?" Miriam asked. "He may be dead, too, by now." "And that will matter less to us than old Halkett does to George." "But the great thing," Helen said, "is to have people one can't be ashamed of." "Oh!" "I know; but it's true. And our father would always look nice and be polite, even when he was dying.
'I give you my word, Miss Halkett, old Nevil was off his head yesterday. I daresay he meant to be civil. I met him; I called out to him, "Good day, cousin, I'm afraid you're beaten" and says he, "I fancy you've gained it, uncle." He didn't know where he was; all abroad, poor boy. Uncle! to me! Miss Halkett would have accepted the instance for a proof of Nevil's distraction, had not Mr.
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.
Her antipathy attributed something electrical to the light they shot. Dr. Shrapnel's account of Nevil stated him to have gone to call on Colonel Halkett, a new resident at Mount Laurels, on the Otley river. Rosamund suggested that he might stay late at Mount Laurels. 'Then he will arrive here after nightfall, said the doctor. 'A bed is at your service, ma'am. The offer was declined.
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