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Barclay could leave Hungerford Castle whilst Caroline was there; that she had begun to think he had formed an attachment which would do him more honour than his passion for Lady Angelica Headingham, but that she feared he would have a relapse of that fit of folly, and that it would at last end fatally in marriage. Mrs.
Of these the most conspicuous was the Lady Angelica Headingham. Her ladyship had lately come to a large estate, and had consequently produced a great sensation in the fashionable world. During the early part of her life she had been much and injudiciously restrained.
"Oh! why did you never tell me this before?" said Miss Georgiana. "I protest I never thought of it, till Lady Kew brought it to my recollection, by talking of Lady Angelica Headingham, and Sir James Harcourt, and all that." "But who was the gentleman?" "That's a secret," replied Lady Trant. "A secret! A secret! What is it?
"Your letters were great delights to me. I kept them to read when the business of the day was done, and I read them by my single candle in my lone chamber. I would rather live in my lone chamber all my days, and never see a wax-light all my nights, than be married to your Lady Angelica Headingham. I give Mr. Barclay joy of having escaped from her charms.
"You have always the pleasure of discovering them," said Mrs. Hungerford; "they are as a woman's accomplishments and acquirements ought to be, more retiring than obtrusive; or as my old friend, Dr. South, quaintly but aptly expresses it more in intaglio than in cameo." At this instant a sudden scream was heard from Lady Angelica Headingham, who caught hold of Mr.
Seebright had a new idea or a favourite allusion to produce, his eye involuntarily turned first to Caroline; and though he professed, on all points of taste and criticism, to be implicitly governed by Lady Angelica Headingham, there was "a small still voice" to which he more anxiously listened. As to Mr.
I am really surprised that you, who have always shown such good judgment of character, should now be so totally mistaken as to think a woman capable of a real love who is merely acting a part from vanity and coquetry." "Vanity! coquetry!" repeated Caroline: "nobody upon earth is more free from vanity and coquetry than Surely you do not imagine I am thinking of Lady Angelica Headingham?
When a man begins to rise, all hands all hands but the hands of his rivals are ready to push him up, and all tongues exclaim, "'Twas I helped!" or, "'Twas what I always foretold!" The Lady Angelica Headingham now bethought herself that she had a little poem, written by Mr.
Hungerford, that you do not doubt the reality of his love: all the rest I will answer for trust to me, I know my game." Mrs. Hungerford sighed; and replied, "I am old, have stood by, and seen this game played and lost so often, and by as able players as Lady Angelica Headingham take care remember I warn you."
Sir James Harcourt was remarkably handsome and fashionable completely a man of the world, and a courtier: who, after having ruined his fortune by standing for government two contested county elections, had dangled year after year at court, living upon the hope and promise of a pension or a place, till his creditors warning him that they could wait no longer, he had fallen in love with Lady Angelica Headingham.
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