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'Send my compliments Colonel Mannering's compliments to him, and I would be glad he would do me the pleasure of supping with me, and bring these papers with him; and I beg, good madam, you will say nothing of this to any one else. 'Me, sir? ne'er a word shall I say. And now I think on't, I'll slip on my hood and pattens, and gang to Mr.
Certainly they will seek a natural explanation and flout the idea of any other." The clergyman protested, but Henry was not prepared to traverse the old ground again. "I have as much right to my opinions as you to yours," he said. "And I am positive this is man's work." Then Mary announced that Mannering's car was in sight.
I had no servants that slept in the house, but I have always been, as you know, rather fond of my own society, being much addicted to reading, though little to study. Whatever was the cause, the effect was dejection and a sense of impending evil; this was especially so in Dr. Mannering's study, although that room was the lightest and most airy in the house.
The appointed day arrived when the Colonel and Miss Mannering were expected at Woodbourne. The hour was fast approaching, and the little circle within doors had each their separate subjects of anxiety. Mac-Morlan naturally desired to attach to himself the patronage and countenance of a person of Mannering's wealth and consequence.
In less than two minutes he washed his face and hands, settled his wig in the glass, and, to Mannering's great surprise, looked quite a different man from the childish Bacchanal he had seen a moment before. 'There are folks, he said, 'Mr. Mannering, before whom one should take care how they play the fool, because they have either too much malice or too little wit, as the poet says.
I am a soldier, sir, somewhat impatient of forms and introductions. So saying, he drew himself up in his chair and waited for Mr. Glossin's communication. 'Be pleased to look at that letter, said Glossin, putting Protocol's epistle into Mannering's hand, as the shortest way of stating his business.
But then he saw still more plainly the impropriety of any attempt at a private correspondence, of which his parents could not be supposed to approve, and he respected this barrier interposed betwixt them both on Mannering's account and as he was the liberal and zealous protector of Miss Bertram.
Indeed, Mannering's whole behaviour had impressed upon him an opinion that this would be disagreeable; and such was the ascendency which the successful soldier and accomplished gentleman had attained over the young man's conduct, that in no respect would he have ventured to offend him.
"What should you think, then," Borrowdean asked, watching his friend through half-closed eyes, "of those who sought to drag you from it?" Mannering's laugh was as free and natural as the wind itself. He had bared his head, and had turned directly seawards. "Hatred, my dear Borrowdean," he declared, "if I thought that they had a single chance of success. As it is indifference."
"Send my compliments Colonel Mannering's compliments to him, and I would be glad he would do me the pleasure of supping with me, and bring these papers with him and I beg, good madam, you will say nothing of this to any one else." Mac-Morlan mysell he's at hame e'en now-it's hardly a step." "Do so, my good landlady, and many thanks and bid my servant step here with my portfolio in the meantime."
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