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I was a good deal away after my boyhood, and my holidays later on did not always coincide with his visits here, but I met him several times." "He never spoke to me of his sister." "That I can understand. It is only what I should have expected. I happened to see your father, Miss Harford, as he left this house when he came here after the accident.
Harford, I don't think there is any occasion to detain you here longer; it may be days before I can see him again, and I don't think it will be needful for you to confirm my statements. I fancy the fight is all out of him it came upon him too suddenly if he had known that I was here he might have braced himself up, but coming down like an avalanche upon him it stunned him. Now, Mr.
But why that allusion to Lord Harford? "What do you mean about Harford?" he asks presently. "He wants me to marry him," replied Virginia quietly. "He asked me four years ago; he asked me again the day before yesterday." She draws a letter from her pocket, and scans Philip's face as he reads it. When he has finished, he looks at her. She understands his glance but too well.
I consulted my friend Truman Harford in the interim; and the result was, that he and I should proceed to Kingroad in a boat, go on board the Africa, and charge the captain in person with what he had done, and desire him to discharge Sheriff, as no agreement, where fraud or force was used in the signatures, could be deemed valid.
Some men flatter themselves by connecting their names on a title-page with the name of some great character of the past. Self-love quickens their admiration of their hero, and admiration for their hero gratifies their self-love. Mr. Harford belongs to this class of biographers. The title and the appearance of his volumes excite expectations which acquaintance with them disappoints.
In spite of the efforts the latter made to hurry on Messrs. Barrington and Smiles, it was nearly three weeks before the deed of gift was prepared. It had, in the first place, been sketched out by Cuthbert, with the assistance of James Harford, and recited "That Mr.
He wished the details of the incident to remain vague. He wished his friends to think there had been some mistake, that Mr. Harford and he had missed each other. His friends, who knew quite well Mr. Harford's manners in drinking were silent. Mr. Power said again: "All's well that ends well." Mr. Kernan changed the subject at once. "That was a decent young chap, that medical fellow," he said.
Harford exclaimed, excitedly; "it would be a piece of evidence there would be no getting over, and that fact would account for Brander's anger, which seemed to me was out of all proportion to the accident. If you could show that the mortgage deed on which Brander claimed is really that document we witnessed, it would be all up with him.
A screen had been placed at the entrance, and it was not until she had passed round it that Philippa realised she was in the presence of the man she had come to see. The sofa had been drawn forward and he was lying on it, propped up with pillows. The nurse was sitting beside him. "I have redeemed my promise," said the doctor cheerfully. "I have brought Miss Harford to see you.
"I would rather have my tongue cut out than tell you," Lord Harford continues, half-ashamed, "only that I want you to know where your refuge is if he breaks your heart. Oh!" imploringly, "why will you not care for me who am ready to devote my life to you? Marry me, and let us go abroad and win health for you and happiness for me!" His voice is broken with emotion he takes one of her hands in his.
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