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Updated: June 27, 2025
Of the guilty persons concerned in the concealment of the birth, and in the desertion of the infant, my nobly-born, highly-bred, irreproachable aunt now stood revealed before me as one! An older woman than I might have been hard put to it to preserve her presence of mind, in such a position as mine. Instinct, not reason, served me in my sore need.
I suppose we must come to it sooner or later and why not sooner?" These odd words of welcome were spoken in a clear, ringing, pleasant voice. The offered hand rather large, but beautifully formed was given to me with the easy, unaffected self-reliance of a highly-bred woman.
There are no handsome highly-bred women to come to the house, and no persons of consequence to protest against his attentions to a governess. "Talking of obedient humble servants, there is one other person established here, who is employed in the steward's office a miserable, shabby, dilapidated old man, named Bashwood.
I could not disguise from myself that their present mode of life was not suited for the highly-bred and polished youth of the nineteenth century.
It was so that she had asked herself the question. As far as manners were concerned, this man was a gentleman. She was quite sure of that. Whether proletary or not, there was nothing about him to offend the taste of the best-born of ladies. That he was better educated than any of the highly-bred young men she saw around her, she was quite sure. He had more to talk about than others.
He determined to guard against it cautiously himself; and ever after, when he saw a disposition to it in any woman, however highly-bred, highly- accomplished, or highly-gifted, he considered her as a person of mean mind, with whom he could never form any connexion of friendship or love.
This did not seem to me consistent with the confession that disorders of one kind or another still not infrequently decimate their highly-bred domestic animals, however the human race itself may have been secured against contagion.
Voice, accent, and manner had alike jarred on his nerves: she had appeared in every respect the opposite to the decorous, soft-voiced, highly-bred, if somewhat inane, damsel who represented his ideal of feminine charm. One week ago! What magic did she possess, this little red-haired, white-faced girl, to make such short work of the scruples of a lifetime?
He wouldn't sign the petition when I asked him, to Sir Charles Warren, to cancel the regulations about muzzling." "And then they set a report going that I had set the dog on, and if I hadn't set it on, that I hadn't called him off. As if I could! You know what a bull-dog is, Mrs. Horlock? Is a highly-bred dog likely to let go when he has fixed his teeth in the fleshy part of a thigh?
But the conviction is right, all the same. A mongrel's milk is far stronger, heartier food than the milk of so highly-bred a great lady as dear old Tara. Tara gives the most aristocratic blood in the world; but when you come to food, the nourishment that is to build up bone and muscle, and hardy health that's different.
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