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"But I do not wish to marry him I do not wish to marry." "You are a modest girl to say so; and this modesty will make you ten times more amiable, especially in Mr. Hervey's eyes. Heaven forbid that I should lessen it!" The next morning Virginia, who always slept in the same room with Mrs. Ormond, wakened her, by crying out in her sleep, with a voice of terror, "Oh, save him! save Mr. Hervey! Mr.
He knew, he must have known, that the chances were at least even that the eagle would desert the branch above in either assault or flight. Hervey's chance was the chance of a moment, and it lay just in this: in getting far enough out on the branch before it broke to catch the branch above before it sprang up and away from him. Also he must trust to the slightly heavier branch above not breaking.
Then," added he, gallantly kissing her hand, "may I thus seal my treaty of peace?" "What audacity! don't you see these people coming in?" cried Lady Delacour; and she withdrew her hand, but with no great precipitation. She was evidently, "at this moment, as in all the past," neither afraid nor ashamed that Mr. Hervey's devotions to her should be paid in public.
It was inconceivable that this indolent, selfish spendthrift could have inherited his nature from Silas Malling. No; he felt sure that some former ancestor must have been responsible for it. He understood the drift of Hervey's words in a twinkling. He had experienced this sort of thing before from other men. Now he did not discourage it.
It was quite characteristic of him that he based his search upon no hint or well considered plan, but went looking for the tracks of a wild animal as one will hunt for shells, along the beach. And there stood Tom, holding the memorial of Hervey's heroism in his hand. Hervey had apparently forgotten all about it....
It is Clarence Hervey's fancy; but this is a dead secret dead Clary no more thinks that we know it, than the man in the moon." "Clarence Hervey's fancy! Then I make no doubt of its being good for something," said Lady Delacour, "if the painter have done justice to his imagination; for Clarence has really a fine imagination." "Oh, damme!
Yet if she did, and would give you the most solemn assurances, and security besides, that she would never have the man you disliked, against your consent I dare say, Miss Hervey's father and mother would sit down satisfied, and not endeavour to force her inclinations.
For one woman worthy to be Clarence Hervey's wife, I have seen, at a moderate computation, a hundred fit to be his mistress. If he should, on this subject, mistake the fitness of things or of persons, he would indeed be in a fair way to be unhappy for life. "The substance of a lady's letter, it has been said, always is comprised in the postscript."
The eloquence of romance persuaded her that she should not only discover but love her father with intuitive filial piety, and she longed to experience those yearnings of affection of which she had read so much. The first moment that Mrs. Ormond began to speak of Mr. Clarence Hervey's hopes of discovering her father, she was transported with joy. "My father! How delightful that word father sounds!
Men of talents were often, he observed, devoid of integrity, and men of integrity devoid of talents. When he had obtained Hervey's assent to this proposition, he next paid him sundry handsome, but long-winded compliments: then he complimented himself for having just thought of Mr.
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