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"John," he then said, "if your mother is in trouble, it may be in my power to relieve her." "O sir!" exclaimed the lad eagerly, coming up to Mr. Everett, and, in the forgetfulness of the moment, laying his small hand upon that of his employer, "if you will, you can." Hard indeed would have been the heart that could have withstood the appealing, eyes lifted by John Levering to the face of Mr.
Then alert, disdainful, 'Fancy the member for Wrotton saying Yes, we went to see him this morning. 'Oh, that is very exciting! What was he like? 'Quite a feeble sort of person, I thought. 'Really! laughed Miss Levering. 'He talked such nonsense to us about that old Plural Voting Bill.
Miss Levering pulled up her long cloak from the bottom of the bed and wrapped the little boy in the warm lining. The comfort of the arrangement was so great, and it implied so little necessity for 'hanging on, that Cecil loosed his arms and lay curled up against his friend. She held him close, adapting her lithe slimness to the easy supporting and enfolding of the childish figure.
It's simply that we find a man can't keep a rowdy meeting in order as well as a woman. He stared. 'You aren't serious? said Lady John. 'Haven't you noticed, Miss Levering put it to Trent, 'that all our worst disturbances come when men are in charge? 'Ha! ha! Well a I hadn't connected the two ideas.
Fourteen years before, when Vida Levering was only eighteen, she had tried to make something like a conventional maid out of the faithful Northumbrian. Rachel Wark had entered Lady Levering's service just before Vida's birth, and had helped to nurse her mistress through a mortal illness ten years later.
The Leverings, you remember Virginia Levering, who gave a reading here last winter; her father was with her, Hamilton Levering, the elocutionist? Well, I know them very well; I've got acquainted with them since; they say they'll help me, and put me forward. Mr. Levering will give me lessons and get me some evenings. He thinks I would do well.
He stood there waving his arms and moving his lips while his dark eyes glittered. Miss Levering turned and pantomimed to Ernestine, 'You see it's no use! Thus appealed to, the girl came forward, and said something in the ear of the frantic chairman.
'Really? said Miss Levering. 'I hadn't heard 'She is rather bad, I'm afraid. We are taking over another of her guests. Of course you know him Geoffrey Stonor. 'Taking him over? Miss Levering repeated. 'Yes; he was originally going to Bishopsmead this week-end, but as he's been promising for ages to come here, it's been arranged that we should take him off their hands.
He was conveying the sheet to the wastepaper basket as one who piously removes some unsavoury litter out of the way of those who walk delicately. Miss Levering arrested him with outstretched hand. 'Do you want it? His look adjured her to say, 'No. 'Yes, I want it. 'What for? he persisted. 'I want it for an address there is on it. It was Friday, and Mrs.
Yet the charm is something too delicious even to desire to escape from the impulse centres in a determination to seem untouched, immune. The third stage in this declension from pleasure through caution to reassurance is induced by something so gentle, so unemphatic in the Vida Levering aspect, so much what the man thinks 'feminine, that even the wariest male is reassured.
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