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Archbishop of Dublin, writing in 1857 to Lord St. Leonards, on the state of his flock in Dublin, says: "Were your lordship to visit some of the ruined lanes and streets of Dublin, your heart would thrill with horror at the picture of human woe which would present itself."
I think that's all." I read selections from this letter aloud to Ethelbertha. She said she was glad she had decided to come down with me. Had all things gone as ordered, our arrival at the St. Leonards' on Friday afternoon would have been imposing. It was our entrance, so to speak, upon the local stage; and Robina had decided it was a case where small economies ought not to be considered.
He gave evidence as to what Lord St. Leonards had told him respecting his intentions as to the disposal of his property. After examining him, I said with a polite bow: "Mr. Warren, I owe you an apology for bringing you into the Probate Court. I am sure no one will ever dream of disputing your will, because you have left everybody 'Ten Thousand a Year!"
There was no use in speaking about it; it had ended well; the only thing to be feared was lest Leonards should in some way borrow money enough to effect his purpose of following Frederick to London, and hunting him out there. But there were immense chances against the success of any such plan; and Margaret determined not to torment herself by thinking of what she could do nothing to prevent.
"Do you really suppose, Basil," Isabel would say to her oppressor, after having given him some elegant extract from the last conversation upon husbands, "that we shall get on as smoothly as the Leonards when we have been married ten years?
From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good." "Did you have anything to eat at the St. Leonards'?" he asked. "Just a glass or so of beer and a sandwich or two," I admitted. "They brought it out to us while we were talking in the yard. To tell the truth, I was feeling rather peckish." Dick made no answer, but continued to chew bacon-rind. Nothing I could say seemed to cheer him.
'Yes; and then at the station a man came up tipsy and reeling and he tried to collar Fred, and over-balanced himself as Fred wrenched himself away, and fell over the edge of the platform; not far, not deep; not above three feet; but oh! Mr. Bell, somehow that fall killed him! 'How awkward. It was this Leonards, I suppose. And how did Fred get off?
And then this falsehood how terrible must be some dread of shame to be revealed for, after all, the provocation given by such a man as Leonards was, when excited by drinking, might, in all probability, be more than enough to justify any one who came forward to state the circumstances openly and without reserve!
The vicar was rather surprised to see him again so soon: Mrs. Swancourt was not. Knight found, on meeting them all, after his arrival had been announced, that they had formed an intention to go to St. Leonards for a few days at the end of the month. No satisfactory conjuncture offered itself on this first evening of his return for presenting Elfride with what he had been at such pains to procure.
'It seems to me that I am being put into a very false position! 'Put into a false position! said Mrs. Barton. 'I'll hear no more of this! If you won't do as you are told, you had better go back to St. Leonards such wicked jealousy! 'Oh, mamma! said Alice, wounded to the quick, 'how can you be so unjust?
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