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Yesterday morning Miss Lavinia received a letter from Sylvester Latham, thanking her for the offer of temporary protection for his daughter, and telling her, in curt business terms, meant to be affable, to name her own price for the office. I have never before seen the ladylike Lavinia Dorman so completely and ungovernably angry.
And the Squire laughs jovially at his discomfited and growling opponent. "True, Lavinia has had lately much to distract her attention," says the jest-hunting Squire; "but her things were never better in spite of . Well we won't touch upon that subject!" And the mischievous Squire laughs heartily at Miss Lavinia's stately and reproving expression. "What's that?" says Mr. Rushton; "what subject?"
The sails flapped, the main boom swung over with a thump, and the stagnant water, stirred at last, bubbled merrily past the vessel's sides. "Come on deck, Natalie, and get some fresh air," said Miss Lavinia, leading the way to the cabin door. Natalie held up the skirt of her nankeen dress, and exhibited the purple trimming torn away over an extent of some yards.
It was almost a relief when the silence was disturbed once more by another sound outside the house. A pebble was thrown up at the window, and a voice called out cautiously, "Miss Lavinia!" They recognized the voice of the man-servant, and at once opened the window. He had something to say to the ladies in private. How could he say it?
I did something bowed, I suppose and was all attention, when the other sister struck in. 'My sister Lavinia, said she 'being conversant with matters of this nature, will state what we consider most calculated to promote the happiness of both parties. I discovered afterwards that Miss Lavinia was an authority in affairs of the heart, by reason of there having anciently existed a certain Mr.
"He will hang on long enough to make you very uncomfortable, then." "My dear Lavinia," exclaimed the Doctor, "do you call that irony? I call it pugilism." Mrs. Penniman, however, in spite of her pugilism, was a good deal frightened, and she took counsel of her fears. Her brother meanwhile took counsel, with many reservations, of Mrs.
Pope Leo, son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, was accustomed to leave Rome in the autumn for hunting, and fishing in the sea, of which latter pastime he was particularly fond. One of his favourite resorts was the castle of Magliana, five miles from Rome, on the banks of the Tiber. On September 18th, 1516, he left Rome and proceeded to Civita Lavinia, on the Laurentian coast.
Lavinia easily found her way to Pope's villa. The first man of whom she inquired knew the house well and guided her to it. The house was somewhat squat and what we should now call double fronted. The back looked on to a garden bordering the river, the front faced a road on the other side of which was a high wall with a wooded garden beyond. "That be Mr.
Cold neck of mutton and a lettuce can ill compete with the luxuries of Mr Boffin's board. 'Pray don't talk like that, Ma dear, said Bella; 'Mr Boffin's board is nothing to me. But, here Miss Lavinia, who had been intently eyeing Bella's bonnet, struck in with 'Why, Bella! 'Yes, Lavvy, I know.
A small man in correct English clothes, with a pointed bald head and a heavy nose, entered impulsively. "It's Bembo," Lavinia announced flatly. "Of course it's Bembo," he echoed vivaciously. "Who's more faithful to the Casa Sanviano " "At tea time," Lavinia interrupted. "Lavinia," her sister said sharply, "don't be impertinent.
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