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"Dear mother, that is all I ask. Be as happy as you can; but be true to him. He was worthy to be loved for a lifetime; not to be put off with half a life, half a heart." Lady Southminster's Ball. Captain Winstanley closed with Mrs. Hawbuck for the pretty little verandah-surrounded cottage on the slope of the hill above Beechdale.
I observed poor fat Lady Hawbuck in a dreadful alarm after some communication regarding the state of her daughter Miss Lucy Hawbuck's health, and Mrs. Sago turned quite yellow, and put down her third glass of Madeira, at a warning glance from Lady Blanche. Lady Rose talked literature, and about the book-club at Guttlebury, and is very strong in voyages and travels.
'Sweets to the sweet! hum a-ha haw! says Sir John Hawbuck, who piques himself on his gallantry, and says nothing without 'a-hum a-ha a-haw! 'Whereth yaw pinnafaw? cries Master Hugh. 'WE thaw you in it, over the wall, didn't we, Pa? 'Hum a-ha a-haw! burst out Sir John, dreadfully alarmed. 'Where's Ponto? Why wasn't he at Quarter Sessions? How are his birds this year, Mrs.
'I don't know when I've been so provoked! cried he, with a glance down the road, of mortal terror. 'The father is no doubt very much incensed? I pursued civilly. 'O God! cried the hawbuck. 'In short, you see, we must get out of this. And I'll tell you what it may seem cool, but necessity has no law if you would lend us your chaise to the next post-house, it would be the very thing, sir.
From a boarding-school, a black-board, a piano, and Clementi's Sonatinas, the child had made a rash adventure upon life in the company of a half-bred hawbuck; and she was already not only regretting it, but expressing her regret with point and pungency. As I alighted they both paused with that unmistakable air of being interrupted in a scene.
From a boarding-school, a black-board, a piano, and Clementi's "Sonatinas," the child had made a rash adventure upon life in the company of a half-bred hawbuck; and she was already not only regretting it, but expressing her regret with point and pungency. As I alighted they both paused with that unmistakable air of being interrupted in a scene.
"I've seen Berks fight," said he to the Honourable Berkeley Craven. "No country hawbuck is going to knock out a man with such a record." "He may be a country hawbuck," the other answered, "but I have been reckoned a judge of anything either on two legs or four, and I tell you, Sir John, that I never saw a man who looked better bred in my life. Are you still laying against him?" "Three to one."
The two men were hurried to their corners, one second sponging them down and the other flapping a towel in front of their face; whilst they, with arms hanging down and legs extended, tried to draw all the air they could into their lungs in the brief space allowed them. "Where's your country hawbuck now?" cried Craven, triumphantly. "Did ever you witness anything more masterly?"
"I don't know when I've been so provoked!" cried he, with a glance down the road, of mortal terror. "The father is no doubt very much incensed?" I pursued civilly. "O God!" cried the hawbuck. "In short, you see, we must get out of this. And I'll tell you what it may seem cool, but necessity has no law if you would lend us your chaise to the next post-house, it would be the very thing, sir."
For instance, the Hipsleys came ten miles from the south, and the Hawbucks ten miles from the north, of the Evergreens; and were magnates in two different divisions of the county of Mangelwurzelshire. Hipsley, who is an old baronet, with a bothered estate, did not care to show his contempt for Hawbuck, who is a new creation, and rich.
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