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'Robert's pet aversion, she said calmly, without a change of countenance, so that Mr. Longstaffe opposite, who was studying her as he always studied pretty young women, stared at her through her remark in sublime ignorance of its bearing. 'And your sister's neighbor? 'I can't hit him off in a sentence, he's too good! said Rose laughing; 'all I can say is that Mrs.
"He could not wish anything that was not satisfactory to Lady Markland." "Do you think so? then I must undeceive you. He would have liked Lady Markland to give herself to him absolutely with no precautions, no restrictions." "Mr. Longstaffe, Theo is very much in love. "It is all very well for him to hate business, though between you and me, if you will allow me to say so, I think it very silly.
It was this that met Theo when he came in eager, yet doubtful, his eyes finding her out, with a rapid question, the instant that he entered. Whatever her troubles might be, none of them were made apparent to him. Next day Mr. Longstaffe called upon Mrs. Warrender, nominally about the alterations that had to be made in her house, but really with objects much more important.
Longstaffe replied "At present that is no doubt the wisest way; but I think it is always well that people should understand each other at once and provide for all emergencies, so that there may be no wounded feeling, or that sort of thing, hereafter. You know, Mrs. Warrender, that the house in Highcombe has always been the jointure house?"
Longstaffe was very much astonished that I should know so much. I did not tell him it was you." "It was not me!" cried Warrender. "I had only the facts, and you supplied the understanding. I suppose that is to be my trade too; it will be something to think that you have trained me for it."
Longstaffe, indeed, when he heard of the fatal accident to his client, had been unable to refrain from a quick burst of self-congratulation over a long minority, before he composed his countenance to the distress and pity which were becoming such an occasion.
"A second marriage," said Mrs. Warrender, subdued, "can never be so simple, so easy, as one in which there are no complications." "They are better, if they so abide," said Mr. Longstaffe. "I agree with St. Paul for my part. But it would be hard upon a young woman, poor thing, that made such a failure in her first.
She saw everything that could and could not happen, and accused herself for not having sent him to school, out of danger, for not having kept him by her side night and day. Mr. Longstaffe naturally looked on at all this anguish with a mixture of contempt and pity. He was not at all alarmed for Geoff.
Darcy, who sat lost in an armchair a little way off, her tiny foot beating time. Rose stopped talking, started, tried to listen. But Lady Charlotte had had enough music, and so had Mr. Longstaffe, who was endeavoring to joke himself into the good graces of the Duke of Sedbergh's sister. The din of conversation rose at the challenge of the piano, and Langham was soon overcrowded.
"Are you lul-lame?" he asked, shy and anxious. "Sprained my off-hind fetlock," she replied. Patience Longstaffe Patience Longstaffe was the only child of Preacher Joe, of God-First Farm, on the way to Lewes; and she was very like her father.
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