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"Dalibard, my dear sir," he said, rubbing his hands, "look yonder: they would make a handsome couple!" "Who, sir?" said the Provencal, looking another way, with dogged stupidity. "Who? Damn it, man! Nay, pray forgive my ill manners, but I felt glad, sir, and proud, sir. Who? Charley Vernon and Lucretia Clavering." "Assuredly, yes. Do you think that there is a chance of so happy an event?"
The revolution which ensued upon the death of Lucretia was made with so much anger that it is no wonder the Romans abolished in their fury the name of king, and desired to weaken a power the exercise of which had been so grievous, though the doing this was attended with all the inconveniences you have justly observed.
Langdon, just inside the box, chuckled softly. Surely Crane was a past master in duplicity. "I'm starting Lucretia in this race," replied Honest John. "Oh!" Then Crane took Porter gently by the sleeve and drew him half within the stall. "Mr.
Yet she knew that this offer of Miss Lucretia's was not one to be lightly set aside, and that it might eventually be the best solution of the problem. After some further earnest discussion it was agreed between them that the matter was, if possible, to be kept from Cynthia for the present, and when Miss Lucretia departed Mrs. Merrill promised her an early return of her call. Mrs.
In winter that sitting room was the sunniest, cosiest room in the city, and Cynthia spent many hours there, reading or listening to the wisdom that fell from the lips of Miss Lucretia or her guests.
"Such," he said, as he rose to take leave, "such is the career to which I could depart with joy if I did not depart alone!" "Alone!" that word, more than once that day, Lucretia repeated to herself "alone!" And what career was left to her? she, too, alone! In certain stages of great grief our natures yearn for excitement.
Coningsby? said Madame Colonna. 'I cannot dance at all, said Coningsby, beginning a little to lose his pride in the want of an accomplishment which at Eton he had thought it spirited to despise. 'Ah! you cannot dance the Russian dances! Lucretia shall teach you, said the Princess; 'nothing will please her so much.
But now, thoroughly aware of the gravity of his father's objects, seeing before him the chance of a settled establishment at Laughton, a positive and influential connection with Lucretia; and on the other hand a return to the poverty he recalled with disgust, and the terrors of his father's solitary malice and revenge, he entered fully into Dalibard's sombre plans, and without scruple or remorse, would have abetted any harm to his benefactress.
Lucretia and Virginia were the first that he thought of; but then came up those pictured stories of Titus Livius, which he could never read without crying, though he had read them a hundred times. Lucretia sending for her husband and her father, each to bring one friend with him, and awaiting them in her chamber. To them her wrongs briefly.
Right opposite, as if for matrimonial ground-bait, a Notice that Whereas my wife, Lucretia Babb, has left my bed and board, I will not be responsible, etc., etc., from this date. William Murray Bradshaw into partnership, and the business of the office would be carried on as usual under the title Penhallow and Bradshaw, Attorneys at Law. Then came the standing professional card of Dr.
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