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If Ricarda were trying to win Norman Hylton, would she be so base as to leave him under the delusion that she was a Neville, possibly of the noble stock of the Lords of Raby? Mr Hylton's friends, if not himself, would regard with unutterable scorn the idea of marriage with a confectioner's daughter. He would be held to have demeaned himself to the verge of social extinction.
If that be all the bar to my cousin's wedding, I may bless it to-morrow." It was evident that there was no other difficulty, from the glad light in Norman Hylton's eyes when he was told the Archbishop's answer. The matter was settled at once. Only one small item was left out, considered of no moment the bride-elect knew nothing about the transaction. That was a pleasure to come.
Anyway, I seemed to represent to her some kind of human dummy which could be used, at need, as a sentimental buffer. "I presume," she continued, "I was quite as intimate a friend as Anthony?" "Quite," said he. "But Hylton's a man and you're a woman. There can be no comparison. You are on different planes of sentiment.
I've never thanked you for for all the things you gave me! 'Oh, those! they ain't worth thanking for just a few little artistic odds and ends. They set off a room, you know give it a finish. 'Young people nowadays, croaked old Mrs. Chapman lugubriously in Mrs. Hylton's courteously inclined ear, 'think so much of luxury and ornament. I'm sure when I married my dear husband, we
What there was in him that had found favour in Ella Hylton's fastidious eyes the narrator is not rash enough to attempt to particularise. But it may be suggested that the most unlikely people may possess their fairy rose and ring which render them irresistible to at least one heart, if they only have faith to believe in and luck to perceive their power.
Her mother's handsome face wore a look of frozen contempt. Imagine a strict Quaker's feelings on seeing his son with a pair of black eyes a Socialist's at finding a peerage under his daughter's pillow a Positivist's whose children have all joined the Salvation Army, and even then but a faint idea will be reached of Mrs. Hylton's utter dismay and disgust.
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