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And the result is what you see." "The result is perfection!" "Papa," Miss Hunsden said, turning her sparkling face to her father, "for Sir Everard's sake, pray change the subject. If you talk of me, he will feel in duty bound to pay compliments; and really, after such a fast run, it is too much to expect of any man. There! I see Lady Louise across the brook yonder.
"Well, Mr. Hunsden, what then?" "I can hardly tell you what then; the conclusion to be drawn as to your character depends upon the nature of the motives which guide your conduct; if you are patient because you expect to make something eventually out of Crimsworth, notwithstanding his tyranny, or perhaps by means of it, you are what the world calls an interested and mercenary, but may be a very wise fellow; if you are patient because you think it a duty to meet insult with submission, you are an essential sap, and in no shape the man for my money; if you are patient because your nature is phlegmatic, flat, inexcitable, and that you cannot get up to the pitch of resistance, why, God made you to be crushed; and lie down by all means, and lie flat, and let Juggernaut ride well over you."
I made no reply I let him think so, not feeling inclined to enter into an explanation of the real state of things, and as little to forge a false account; but it was not easy to blind Hunsden; my very silence, instead of convincing him that he had hit the truth, seemed to render him doubtful about it; he went on:
I will leave you gentlemen to cultivate one another. Allons, messieurs!" One fleeting, backward glance of the bewitching face, a saucy smile and a wave of the hand, and Whirlwind had leaped across the brook and ambled on beside the sober charger of Lady Louise. "Every one has been talking of your riding, Miss Hunsden," Lady Louise said. "I am nearly beside myself with envy.
There is some mystery about Captain Hunsden's wife, and pardon me if you like Miss Hunsden, you ought to have it cleared up." Everard laughed a harsh, strident laugh. "If I like Miss Hunsden, my dear little non-committal Milly. Am I to go to Hunsden Hall and say to its master, 'Look here, Captain Hunsden, give me proofs of your marriage tell me all about your mysterious wife.
Sybilla's swift, deft fingers disrobed the moody lady, loosened the elaborate structure of hair, brushed it out, and all the while she sat frowning angrily at the fire. "There was a young lady at the hall a Miss Hunsden," she said, at last, breaking out in spite of herself "and the exhibition she made was perfectly disgraceful.
In the meantime, to put all humbug aside and talk sense for a few moments, you would be greatly the better of a situation, and what is more, you are a fool if you refuse to take one from any hand that offers it." "Very well, Mr. Hunsden; now you have settled that point, talk of something else. What news from X ?" "I tell you yes and if you don't believe me, go and ask the cure of St. Jacques."
E. Crimsworth; Hunsden whirled her through the waltz with spirit; he kept at her side during the remainder of the evening, and I read in her animated and gratified countenance that he succeeded in making himself perfectly agreeable.
Next morning Sir Everard Kingsland, descending to his hotel breakfast, found a sealed note beside his plate. He opened it, and saw it was from the directress of the Pensionnat des Demoiselles. MONSIEUR, It is with regret I inform you Mademoiselle Hunsden is very ill. When you left her last evening she ascended to her room at once.
Hunsden, who having been over, and having abused me for my prosperity in set terms, went back, and soon after sent a leash of young shire heiresses his cousins; as he said "to be polished off by Mrs. Crimsworth." As to this same Mrs. Crimsworth, in one sense she was become another woman, though in another she remained unchanged. So different was she under different circumstances.
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