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Leslie did not preserve. Leslie's without applying for the character. The Lord-Lieutenant had given a ball, and had not invited the Leslies. Mr. Leslie's tenants had voted against their landlord's wish at the recent election. More than all, Squire Hazeldean and his Harry had called at Rood, and though Mrs.
She assured him that she was convinced that, if the squire disapproved of Riccabocca's pretensions, the Italian would withdraw them at once, and Miss Hazeldean would never know of his proposals. Therefore, in that case, no harm would be done. This assurance, coinciding with Mr.
As the shrewd reader has guessed already, that infamous tinker was the prime agent of evil in this critical turn in the affairs of his quondam customer; for, on his return to his haunts around Hazeldean and the Casino, the tinker had hastened to apprise Mrs.
Hazeldean, of whom she was rather in awe, notwithstanding they had been little girls together, and occasionally still called each other Harry and Carry. But those tender diminutives belonged to the "Dear" genus, and were rarely employed by the ladies, except at times when, had they been little girls still, and the governess out of the way, they would have slapped and pinched each other. Mrs.
Watch that your pride does not chafe them, your power does not wantonly gall. Your worldly inferior is of the class from which the Apostles were chosen, amidst which the Lord of Creation descended from a throne above the seraphs." The parson here paused a moment, and his eye glanced towards the pew near the pulpit, where sat the magnate of Hazeldean.
"Don't care, provided she is a tidy, sensible, active lass, with a good character for her dower." "Character ah, that is indispensable?" "I should think so, indeed. A Mrs. Hazeldean of Hazeldean You frighten me. He's not going to run off with a divorced woman, or a "
It is not this sum of money for which I sell myself, it is for what that sum will aid me to achieve. And in the marriage of young Hazeldean with the Italian woman, I have another, and it may be a larger interest. I have slept on it lately, I wake to it now.
Restrained from further words by the count's presence, Frank bowed over the fair hand in silence, and retired. He was on the stairs when he was joined by Peschiera. "Mr. Hazeldean," said the latter, in a low tone, "will you come into the drawing-room?" Frank obeyed. The man employed in his examination of the furniture was still at his task: but at a short whisper from the count he withdrew.
Mr. young Leslie," said he, throwing himself back in his chair as Randal entered, "I thought you were a friend, I thought you were Frank's adviser. Explain, sir! explain!" "Gently, my dear Mr. Hazeldean," said the parson. "You do but surprise and alarm Mr. Leslie. Tell him more distinctly what he has to explain." SQUIRE. "Did you or did you not tell me or Mrs.
At all events, this, I suspect, was the reasoning of Dr. Riccabocca, when one morning, after a long walk with Miss Hazeldean, he muttered to himself, "Duro con duro Non fete mai buon muro," which may bear the paraphrase, "Bricks without mortar would make a very bad wall." There was quite enough in Miss Jemima's disposition to make excellent mortar: the doctor took the bricks to himself.
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