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Howard has been sent for, and Lord Doltimore. So very strange, so sudden!" "What is the matter? Speak plain." "Lord Vargrave, sir, poor Lord Vargrave " "Lord Vargrave!" "Yes, sir; the master of the hotel, hearing you knew his lordship, would be so glad if you would come down. Lord Vargrave, sir, is dead, found dead in his bed!" Maltravers was rooted to the spot with amaze and horror.
She pointed to it, and falling on her knees beside it, murmured, "Hush, it sleeps below, thy child!" She covered her face with both her hands, and her form shook convulsively. Beside that form and before that grave knelt Maltravers.
Thus, we are never without society we are never alone; all that we have read, learned and discovered, is company to us. This is pleasant," added Maltravers, "to those who have no clear connections in the world without." "And is that your case?" asked Valerie, with a timid smile.
The grief of the poor secretary was now indeed overmastering. He sobbed and wept like a child. When Maltravers retired from the chamber of death, De Montaigne accompanied him; but soon quitting him again, as Ernest bent his way to Evelyn, he quietly rejoined Mr. Howard, who readily grasped at his offers of aid in the last melancholy duties and directions. IF we do meet again, why, we shall smile.
I reflected that the more wholesome air and associations of England would certainly re-invigorate both body and mind, and that any extra strain brought about by the journey would soon be repaired by the comforts and watchful care with which we could surround him at Worth Maltravers. So the first week in October saw us once more with our faces set towards England.
I shall gain immensely by such a connection; but I lose everything and gain nothing by her marrying Maltravers of opposite politics too whom I begin to hate like poison. But no duke shall have her Florence Ferrers, the only alliteration I ever liked yet it would sound rough in poetry." Lumley then deliberately drew towards him his inkstand "No penknife!
This knowledge of the dead, often so useless, has an inexpressible charm when it is applied to the places where the dead lived. We care nothing about the ancients on Highgate Hill but at Baiae, Pompeii, by the Virgilian Hades, the ancients are society with which we thirst to be familiar. To the animated and curious Frenchwoman what a cicerone was Ernest Maltravers!
IT seemed the laurel chaste and stubborn oak, And all the gentle trees on earth that grew, It seemed the land, the sea, and heaven above, All breathed out fancy sweet, and sighed out love. FAIRFAX'S Tasso. AT De Montaigne's villa, Evelyn, for the first time, gathered from the looks, the manners, of Maltravers that she was beloved. It was no longer possible to mistake the evidences of affection.
But at times a great natural irritability of temper a quick suspicion of the motives of those around her an imperious and obstinate vehemence of will, were visible to Maltravers, and served, perhaps, to keep him heart-whole.
Now it so happened that the news of the engagement of Maltravers to Miss Cameron became known to the county but a little time before he arrived, for news travels slow from the Continent to our provinces, and, of course, excited all the comment of the villagers. Her nurse repeated the tale to Mrs.
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