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Besides, Fanny thought that Lord Kilcullen had behaved generously to her when she so violently repudiated his love: she believed that it had been sincere; she had not even to herself accused him of meanness or treachery; and she spoke of him as one to be pitied, liked, and regarded; not as one to be execrated and avoided.
Nobody was with him as he opened his post-bag, which he took from the messenger as the boy was coming up to the house; he therefore read his letter alone, on the lawn, and he continued pacing up and down before the house with a most perturbed air, for half an hour. Kilcullen going to marry Fanny Wyndham!
I'll back Kilcullen to marry her against Ballindine for a hundred pounds." "Done," said Mat; and the bet was booked. The same evening, Tierney wrote to Dot Blake, and said in a postscript, "I know you care for Ballindine; so do I, but I don't write to him. If he really wants to secure his turtle-dove, he should see that she doesn't get bagged in his absence.
"But what had I better do? call on Kilcullen for an explanation?" "That's the last thing to think of. No; but declare what he reports to be the truth; return Miss Wyndham the lock of hair you have in your desk, and next your heart, or wherever you keep it; write her a pretty note, and conclude by saying that the 'Adriatic's free to wed another'. That's what I should do."
He had plenty of what is usually called courage; had his friend recommended him instantly to call out Lord Kilcullen and shoot him, and afterwards any number of other young men who might express a thought in opposition to his claim on Miss Wyndham's hand, he would have set about it with the greatest readiness and aptitude; but he knew he could not baffle the appalling solemnity of Lord Cashel, in his own study.
They were to shout and dance for joy about Father Tyrrel; and howl and curse for grief about O'Connell; and they did shout and howl with a vengeance. All Thursday, you would have thought that a legion of devils had been let loose into Kilcullen." "But did they commit any personal outrages, Mr O'Joscelyn?" "Wait till I tell you.
It was so long since Lord Kilcullen had been regularly in his power, and it might never occur again. So he returned from consideration of the future to a further retrospect on the past. "You certainly have played your cards most foolishly; you have thrown away your money rather, I should say, my money, in a manner which nothing can excuse or palliate.
There was more true feeling in what Kilcullen had now said to her, than in all that had fallen from the whole family for the four years she had lived at Grey Abbey, and she could not therefore but close on the offer of his affection. "Shall we be such friends, then?" said he; "or, after all, am I too bad?
He would have thought it to be no disgrace to carry her off had another person been her guardian. She would then have had fair play, and it would be the guardian's fault if her fortune were not secure. But she had no friend now to protect her: it was her guardian himself who was betraying her to ruin. However, the money must be had, and Lord Kilcullen was not long in quieting his conscience.
"Then I will marry no one," said Fanny, striving hard to suppress her tears, and barely succeeding. "Good heavens!" exclaimed Kilcullen; "what an infatuation is this!" and then again he walked on silent a little way. "Have you told any one of this, Fanny? do they know of it at Grey Abbey?
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