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Mine are of a different nature, and boast a different locality; and so when I come into the country, 'tis for pleasant air, and beautiful trees, and winding streams; things which, of course, those who live among them all the year round do not suspect to be lovely and adorable creations. Don't you agree with Tom Moore, Miss Manvers?"
And at the same moment a young girl slipped in through the open French window, and with a smiling nod to Mrs. Flaxman and Mr. Manvers went up to the tea-table and began to replenish the teapot and relight the kettle. Mr. Barron made an involuntary movement of annoyance as the Rector entered. But a few minutes of waiting before the appearance of his carriage was inevitable.
"I have done so, my dear, and now tell me can you not imagine what this gift is which you so much abuse?" "Indeed, I cannot, mamma," replied the little girl with a sigh. Mrs. Manvers placed the memorandum book in her daughter's hand without saying a word. There, written at the head of the page, were these words: "Emily's Waste of Time."
After spending some little time with your friends I believe, at Geneva, the lone pilgrim bent his steps to Lago Guardia, and there he has remained, wooing nature with his friend, and in all probability playing the dévoué to Miss Manvers. We shall find Lord St.
The baronet, however, although a bold man to the world, was luckily henpecked; so Vivian made love to the wife and secured the husband. I think that Julia Manvers was really the most beautiful creature that ever smiled in this fair world.
That bit about the Sermons admirable!" He bent forward, his hands on his knees, staring at Manvers. Yet the eyes for all their intensity looked out from a face furrowed and pale overshadowed by physical and mental strain. The girl sitting at the tea-table could scarcely take her eyes from it. It appealed at once to her heart and her intelligence.
Manvers drove him delicately from point to point, involving him in his own contradictions, rolling him in his own ambiguities, till suddenly vague recollections began to stir in the victim's mind. Manvers? Was that the name? It began to recall to him certain articles in the reviews, the Church papers.
Then of course there'll be Japan and by that time there'll be airships to the North Pole, and we can take it on our way home!" "Souvent femme varie!" Mr. Manvers raised a pair of surprisingly shrewd eyes from the carpet. "I remember the years when I used to try and dig you and Hugh out of Bagley, and drive you abroad without the smallest success."
An important public meeting in which certain decisions had been taken with only three dissentients had led up to the startling proceedings in the village church which Mrs. Flaxman had described to Louis Manvers. The Bishop had written another letter, this time of a more hurried and peremptory kind.
"What do you think of Mrs. Felix Lorraine, Miss Manvers?" "Oh! I think her a very amusing woman, a very clever woman a very but " "But what?" "But I cannot exactly make her out." "Nor I; she is a dark riddle; and, although I am a very Oedipus, I confess I have not yet unravelled it. Come, there is Washington Irving's autograph for you; read it; is it not quite in character? Shall I write any more?
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