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I should be really glad to take a lesson of these men and their plans for social improvement. 'You will have a fine opportunity this evening. Don't you dine at Minchampstead? 'Yes. Do you? 'Mr. Jingle dines everywhere, except at home. Will you take me over in your trap? 'Done. But whom shall we meet there? 'The Lavingtons, and Vieuxbois, and Vaurien, and a parson or two, I suppose.
'Ay, he thought, 'if he were ruined, after all, it would be well for God's cause. The Lavingtons, at least, would find no temptation in his wealth: and Argemone she is too proud, too luxurious, to marry a beggar. She might embrace a holy poverty for the sake of her own soul; but for the gratification of an earthly passion, never! Base and carnal delights would never tempt her so far.
Perhaps, too, you could see him yourself; and tell him you see I trust you with everything that my fortune, his own fortune, depends on his being here to- morrow morning. He must start to-night, sir to-night, tell him, if there were twenty Miss Lavingtons in Whitford or he is a ruined man!
Argemone's appearance, and their late conversation, had started a new covey of strange fancies. Lancelot followed them over hill and dale, glad to escape a moment from the mournful lessons of that evening; but even over them there was a cloud of sadness. Harry Verney's last words, and Argemone's accidental whisper about 'a curse upon the Lavingtons, rose to his mind.
He hoped indeed, by sacrificing the æsthetic quality of the Lavingtons, to win some approbation of their virtues; but Karen, though not inclined to proffer unasked criticism, found, evidently, no occasion for commendation. Later on, when they were back at Les Solitudes and walking in the garden, she returned to the subject of his friends and said: "I was a little disturbed about Mrs.
Lavington saw no difference, I think." "They haven't been trained to see differences," said Gregory, and he summed up the Lavingtons in the aphorism to himself as well as to Karen; "only to accept samenesses."
For in a darkened chamber of the fine house at Steamingbath, lies on a sofa Honoria Lavington beautiful no more; the victim of some mysterious and agonising disease, about which the physicians agree on one point only that it is hopeless. The 'curse of the Lavingtons' is on her; and she bears it.
Talcott; did you notice? no one talked to her at all, hardly. It was as if they thought her my dame de compagnie. She isn't my dame de compagnie; and if she were, I think that she should have been talked to." Gregory had observed this fact and had hoped that it might have escaped Karen's notice. To the Lavingtons Mrs.
Yet, once he had her there, he watched the metamorphosis that her presence worked in his old associations with pleasure rather than pain. It pleased him, intimately, that the Lavingtons should see in him a lover as yet uncertain of his chances. It pleased him that they should not find in Karen the type that they must have expected the future Mrs.
This was indeed hard on the Lavingtons; but Gregory was not thinking of the Lavingtons, who could take care of themselves. He was wondering, as he more and more wondered, about Madame von Marwitz, and what she saw and what she permitted herself not to see. "You aren't invisible to her sometimes?" he inquired. Her innocence before his ironies made him ashamed always of having spoken them.
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