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Fairfax's affectation, your insufferable amiability, and the dreariness of those concertina people, I feel so wretched that I could find it in my heart to loathe anybody and everybody." "Nonsense, Nelly! You are only in the blues." "Only in the blues!" said Miss McQuinch sarcastically. "Yes. That is all." "Take some sherry. It will brighten you up." "Dutch courage!
"You have it all your own way at the theatre now, I suppose. You are quite famous." "Yes," she said, bitterly. "We are both celebrities. Rather different from old times." "We certainly used to get more kicks than halfpence. However, let us hope all that is over now." "Who were those women who were with you a minute ago?" "Cousins of Lind. Miss Marian Lind and Miss McQuinch." "I remember.
"I should make you come home with us now," said Marian, "but for this Sunday being a special occasion. Nelly McQuinch is to spend the evening with us; and as I have not seen her since we came back, I must have her all to myself. Come next Sunday, if you care to." "Do," said Conolly. "Half past three is our Sunday hour. If you cannot face that, we are usually at home afterwards the entire evening.
On his return to the green-room, Miss McQuinch, much affected at the fate of Bowling, and indignant with herself for being so, stared defiantly at Conolly through a film of tears. When Marmaduke went out, the people also were so moved that they were ripe for laughter, and with roars of merriment forced him to sing three songs, in the choruses of which they joined.
She did not move a muscle until she heard the house door close behind him. Then she ran upstairs to the drawing-room, where Miss McQuinch was still practising. "Oh, Nelly," she cried, throwing herself into an easy chair, and covering her face with her hands. "Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!"
I think I ought to go home for a while. My mother wants me to." Miss McQuinch, by a subdued but expressive snort, conveyed the most entire scepticism as to his solicitude about his mother. She then turned to the piano calmly, observing, "You have probably eaten something that disagrees with you." "What a shame!" said Marian. "Come, Duke: I have plenty of good news for you.
"I'll not take advantage of that, as I am only a workman myself," said Conolly. "I had rather leave the song out than accompany myself." "Pray dont suppose that I wish to be disagreeable, Mr. Lind," said Miss McQuinch, as the company looked doubtfully at her; "but I have disgraced myself too completely to trust my fingers again. I should spoil the song if I played the accompaniment."
"And French, which is vulgar," interposed Miss McQuinch, delivering the remark like a pistol shot at Mrs. Fairfax, who had been trying to convey by facial expression that she pitied the folly of Elinor's advice, and was scandalized by her presumption in offering it. "It is time to start for the Academy." When they arrived at Burlington House, Mrs.
McQuinch found it hard to live like a lady on their income, and had worn many lines into her face by constantly and vainly wishing that she could afford to give a ball every season, to get a new carriage, and to appear at church with her daughters in new dresses oftener than twice a year.
He never offers to accompany me now, and generally leaves the room when I am asked to sing." "Perhaps he sees the effect his presence has on you." "Even so, he ought to stay. He used to like me to listen to him, at first." Miss McQuinch looked at the sunset with exceeding glumness. There was an ominous pause.
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