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She remembered, too, that one of Lady Linden's hobbies had been to establish Working Guilds and Rural Industries, Village Crafts, and suchlike in her village. In connection with some of these there might be work for her. She wrote to all that she could think of, a letter of which she made six facsimile copies. It was not a begging appeal, but a dignified little reminder of her existence.
This done, we awaited Catherine Linden's arrival in London, and Mr. Linden senior's convalescence for his mental agitation had resulted in a sharp fit of illness to effect a satisfactory and just arrangement. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Linden and Mrs.
That was the least service of his zeal touched by the earnestness of Linden's friendship, anxious to oblige in any way his preserver, and well pleased himself to be the patron of merit, Talbot readily engaged to obtain for Warner whatever the attention and favour of high rank or literary distinction could bestow.
What redeems the novel, and gives it its peculiar and exquisite charm, is the execution of certain detached passages. We have never seen the drollery of a genuine Yankee to more advantage than in "Say and Seal." An occasional specimen we venture to quote. On Mr. Linden's first appearance at Mrs.
Could she deem it possible that any man entertained toward her such sentiments as those to which you have just given utterance, it would almost kill her." Lord Linden's lips curled sarcastically, but he did not feel disposed to communicate how completely Mademoiselle Melanie was already aware of those sentiments. He now essayed to put an end to the conversation by saying,
And then had come the commonplace, the everyday, sordid side of it, he the accepted lover, high in Lady Linden's favour, which meant the gradual awakening from a dream, her dream of love. "I am fickle, I am false. I do not know my own mind, and and I have hurt him. I am not worthy of hurting him. He is better, finer than I ever thought."
"Damn Jimmy Urquhart," he said to himself. "Now I shall have to work for my living which I hate, after dinner." But he did it. "We'll go and talk to the Judge," he said to his company, and led the way. Urquhart settled down to claret, and was taciturn. He answered Linden's tentative openings in monosyllables. But he and the Judge got on very well.
She was the only one likely to inherit John Linden's wealth, and by marrying her he would make sure of it. Yet she had been willing to leave the home of her youth, to renounce luxury for a life of poverty, rather than to marry him. When he thought of this his face became set and its expression stern and determined. "Florence shall yet be mine," he declared, resolutely.
"London," said his lordship to her of the diamonds, "has not seemed like the same place since Lady Westborough arrived; your presence brings out all the other luminaries: and therefore a young acquaintance of mine God bless me, there he is, seated by Lady Flora very justly called you the 'evening star." "Was that Mr. Linden's pretty saying?" said Lady Westborough, smiling.
The two men gazed at the heap of feminine glories, it might have been the most wonderful sight they ever had seen. Lessingham was the first to speak, his face had all at once grown grey and haggard. 'What has happened to her? I replied to his question with another. 'Are you sure this is Miss Linden's dress? 'I am sure, and were proof needed, here it is.
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