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Jansenius's brother had got mixed with the views of the foreman, and had given rise to a story of Trefusis expressing joy at his wife's death with frightful oaths in her father's house whilst she lay dead there, and refusing to pay a farthing of her debts or funeral expenses. Some days later, when gossip on the subject was subsiding, a fresh scandal revived it. A literary friend of Mr.

Jansenius's explosion of wrath with friendly interest, as if it concerned him as a curious spectator only to her two visitors as they retreated. "Pray, do you consider this man's statement satisfactory?" she said to them. "I do not."

The papal decision concerning Jansenius's book, already mentioned, was drawn up in a formula "turned with some skill, and in such a way that subscription did not bind the conscience; however, the nuns of Port-Royal refused to sign."

Jansenius's helped him to compose an epitaph, and added to it a couple of pretty and touching stanzas, setting forth that Henrietta's character had been one of rare sweetness and virtue, and that her friends would never cease to sorrow for her loss. A tradesman who described himself as a "monumental mason" furnished a book of tomb designs, and Mr.

It is most extraordinary that they have gone away; but the man is no more mad than I am, and I know he is a gentleman He told me so." "Let us hope for the best," said Mrs. Jansenius, smoothly. "I think I will sit down I feel so tired. Thanks." Agatha related the circumstances of her acquaintance with Smilash, adding, at Mrs. Jansenius's request, a minute description of his personal appearance.

You yourself, though you would give fifty pounds to Jansenius's emigration fund readily enough, would call for the police, the military, and the Riot Act, if the people came to Brandon Beeches and bade you turn out and work for your living with the rest.