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Updated: June 8, 2025
'It will do all the good in the world to Grancey, said Mrs. Lespel. She sat in her little blue-room, with gentlemen congregating at the open window. Presently Grancey Lespel rounded a projection of the house where the drawing-room stood out: 'The maddest folly ever talked! he delivered himself in wrath. 'The Whigs dead? You may as well say I'm dead.
As for Nevil Beauchamp, in particular, his case, this penetrating lady said, was clear: he ought to be married. 'Could you make a sacrifice? she asked Cecilia playfully. 'Nevil Beauchamp and I are old friends, but we have agreed that we are deadly political enemies, Miss Halkett replied. 'It is not so bad for a beginning, said Mrs. Lespel. 'If one were disposed to martyrdom.
You tried to get that man Dollikins from me in the Tory interest. 'I mean to keep him out of Radical clutches. Now that 's the truth. They came up to the group by the open window, still conversing hotly, indifferent to listeners. 'You won't keep him from me; I have him, said Beauchamp. 'You delude yourself; I have his promise, his pledged word, said Grancey Lespel.
Culbrett, 'Don't frighten the women, satisfied him, though why it should he could not have imagined. Mrs. Lespel quitted the breakfast-table before the setting in of the dangerous five minutes of conversation over its ruins, and spoke to her husband, who contested the necessity for secresy, but yielded to her judgement when it was backed by Stukely Culbrett.
Grancey Lespel was the survivor of them, and well could he remember the happier day of his grandfather, his father, and his own hot youth.
'That pestilent fellow! Colonel Halkett ejaculated. 'I understand he has had the impudence to serve a notice on Grancey Lespel about encroachments on common land. Some one described Dr. Shrapnel's appearance under the flour storm. 'He deserves anything, said the colonel, consulting his mantelpiece clock. Captain Baskelett observed: 'I shall have my account to settle with Dr.
Lespel; and, resuming her worldly sagacity, 'I should not like to be in opposition to that young man. She seemed to have a fancy unexpressed regarding Mr. Tuckham.
He quotes it as yours, half acquiescingly, and ruefully. 'For visitors, we have had Captain Baskelett for two minutes, and Lord Palmet, who stayed longer, and seems to intend to come daily. He attempts French with Madame de R., and amuses her a little: a silver foot and a ball of worsted. Mr. and Mrs. Grancey Lespel have called, and Lord and Lady Croyston. Colonel Halkett, Miss Halkett, and Mr.
I tell Beauchamp all I know, just as I told you this morning, Miss Halkett. What I don't like is Lespel turning Tory. Cecilia put a stop to his indiscretions by halting for Mrs. Devereux, and saying to Beauchamp, 'If your friend would return to Bevisham by rail, this is the nearest point to the station.
'Dollikins? Palmet consulted a perturbed recollection. Among the entangled list of new names he had gathered recently from the study of politics, Dollikins rang in his head. He shouted, 'Yes, Dollikins! to be sure. Lespel has him to lunch to-day; calls him a gentleman-tradesman; odd fish! and told a fellow called where is it now? a name like brass or copper... Copperstone?
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