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'Hartswood dines with me this evening, to confer, rejoined Sir Lukin. 'Will you meet him? 'I can't, said Redworth, 'I have to see a lady, whose affairs I have been attending to in the City; and I 'm engaged for the evening. You perceive, my good fellow, he resumed, as they rolled along, 'this is a delicate business. You have to consider your wife. Mrs.
'You saw him to-day, he said. She answered: 'Yes. He goes down to Copsley tomorrow. 'I think not, said Sir Lukin. 'I have it from him. She closed her eyelids in speaking. 'He and I have some rather serious business in town. 'Serious? 'Don't be alarmed: not concerning him. 'Whom, then? You have told me so much I have a right to know. 'Not an atom of danger, I assure you?
Diana said merrily: 'Bravo our side! 'Bravo, old Tom Redworth'; rejoined Sir Lukin. 'Four, and a three! And capital weather, haven't we: Hope we shall have same sort day next month return match, my ground. I've seen Tom Redworth score old days over two hundred t' his bat. And he used to bowl too. But bowling wants practice.
Percy Dacier seemed to her the more likely one, in that light, and she thought so still, after Sir Lukin had introduced him at Copsley for a couple of days of the hunting season. Tony's manner with him suggested it; she had a dash of leadership. They were not intimate in look or tongue.
She comes out in blazing armour if you unmask a battery. I don't know how it might be if she were in love with a fellow. I doubt her thinking men worth the trouble. I never met the man. But if she were to take fire, Troy 'd be nothing to it. I wonder whether we might go in: I dread the house. Dacier spoke of departing. 'No, no, wait, Sir Lukin begged him. 'I was talking about women.
'Tony calls the social world "the theatre of appetites," as we have it at present, she said; 'and the world at a wedding is, one may reckon, in the second act of the hungry tragicomedy. 'Yes, there's the breakfast, Sir Lukin assented. Mrs. Fryar-Gunnett was much more intelligible to him: in fact, quite so, as to her speech.
He can ride; that's about all he can do. I told him Mrs. Warwick had no thought of reconciliation. "Then, Sir Lukin, you will perceive that we have no standpoint for a discussion." I told him the point was, for a man of honour not to drag his wife before the public, as he had no case to stand on less than nothing. You should have seen the fellow's face.
'Give me an hour, Sir Lukin replied, and went straight to his wife's blue-room. Diana was roused from a meditation on a letter she held, by the entrance of Emma in her bed-chamber, to whom she said: 'I have here the very craziest bit of writing! but what is disturbing you, dear? Emma sat beside her, panting and composing her lips to speak. 'Do you, love me?
'You saw him to-day, he said. She answered: 'Yes. He goes down to Copsley tomorrow. 'I think not, said Sir Lukin. 'I have it from him. She closed her eyelids in speaking. 'He and I have some rather serious business in town. 'Serious? 'Don't be alarmed: not concerning him. 'Whom, then? You have told me so much I have a right to know. 'Not an atom of danger, I assure you?
But the man who first thought of a lifeboat and invented one; who fought against apathy and opposition; who completed and launched his ark of mercy on the sea at Bamborough, in the shape of a little coble, in the year 1785, and who actually saved many lives therewith, was a London coachbuilder, LIONEL LUKIN by name.
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