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"I am sure I do not think so," returned Charlotte, timidly glancing her eye at her mother; "besides, I feel bound in honour to remember your original intention." "I tell you I have abandoned it, with all thoughts of the youth." "And who is the youth?" asked Mrs. Henly, affecting an indifference that she did not feel.
He moved to the side of the fair vision that had engrossed all his thoughts since the moment they had first met, and took the chair that the good nature of Miss Osgood offered to his acceptance between them. "Thank fortune, Miss Henly," he said, the instant he was seated, "that bravura has ceased, and I can now inquire how you recovered from the fatigue of your walk?"
"Oh! no one can be miserable that is well married," cried Maria; "Heigho! the idea of old-maidism is too shocking to think about!" "Why does not Mr. Delafield get married, then, if marriage be so very desirable?" said Miss Henly, smiling at the customary rattle of her companion: "he can easily get a wife, you say?" "It is the difficulty of choosing there are so many attentive to him " "Maria!"
About this time an action had been brought against me, in the name of my landlord, Parson Williams, of Whitchurch, of whom I had rented Cold Henly Farm for three years, at a loss of about two thousand pounds, which I sunk in cleaning and improving the estate.
The skin, head, tail and fins of Old Muskie were carefully preserved and sent to the best taxidermist in Chicago; but there was enough left of his fifty-three-pound body for the company gathered about the big "Oak Hall" dining-table. On the right of Mr. Cameron sat Lee Henly, and on the left, Carl Mills. Mr. Cameron and the Forest Lodge people were jubilant.
"I do not think he is more than four and twenty," added Maria; "and his black eyes would form a charming contrast to your blue ones." "To whom does Miss Osgood allude?" asked Mrs. Henly, yielding to a solicitude that she could no longer controul. "To Mr.
The gentlemen were sitting with their faces towards the fire, and had not heard the light step of Miss Henly as she entered the apartment, but both instantly arose and paid their salutations; the invalid by a silent bow, and by handing a chair, and Delafield with many a graceful compliment on her good looks, and divers protestations concerning the pleasure he felt at being permitted to visit at her house.
As the last breathing notes died on the ear, Delafield turned to meet those eyes which had already secured an unconscious victory, and saw them moistened with a lustre that added to their natural softness. Beauty in tears is proverbially irresistible and the youth, bending forward, said in a voice that was modulated to the stillness of the room "Such melody, Miss Henly, captivates the senses."
Henly, I have to congratulate you on the prospects of your soon having a son, and one so amiable and attractive as your daughter." "Indeed!" returned the matron, comprehending the other's meaning intuitively, "and what may be the young gentleman's name?" "You will be the envy of all the mothers in town," continued Maria, "and deservedly so. Two such children to fall to the lot of one mother!
Seymour Delafield," said Charlotte, raising her mild eyes to the face of her mother, and smiling, as she delicately pared her apple, with a simple ingenuousness that banished uneasiness from the breast of her parent in an instant. "I know him," said Mr. Henly; "but I did not think you had ever seen him, Charlotte." "We met him in our morning walk, sir, and Maria introduced him."
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