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He had been accompanied by another gentleman, who had been introduced to him before he left the north, and whom Mr. Middlemass would not allow to go over to the inn at Stoneham, where he was to spend a few days with a friend. Mr. Middlemass and his new acquaintance were still at dinner. Miss West was hurrying away after having discharged her commission, in order not to detain Mrs.
"Like it! I should think you do. It was the fellow of it I sold this morning to Lady Georgiana Higginbotham, of Castle Higgins. She who is to be married next month. 'Middlemass, she said, when she saw it, 'I'm in love with it. It has a sheen about it, and a quality.
She is an efficient nurse, and she has nothing to do just now." "Has she had experience in cases of brain-disease?" said Doctor Middlemass snappishly. "I really do not know." She knew perfectly well that Sabina's knowledge of nursing was of the most perfunctory kind. "She has had experience of all kinds of illness, I believe, and she is thoroughly trustworthy.
She was there to ask for the health of Miss Victoria Middlemass, the daughter of a gentleman who led a country gentleman's life on the proceeds of a sleeping partnership in a mercantile house in a large town at some distance. Mrs. Middlemass came in hurriedly.
Lepel's sister," said Flossy coldly, "and it was I who sent for you, Doctor Middlemass. I think I have some right to take an interest in my brother's condition." "Certainly, madam" the doctor spoke with portentous grimness and formality "but excuse me no right to tamper with any of my prescriptions.
Middlemass went on her knees, and with slow and exasperating deliberation, unfastened a parcel carefully done up in white muslin. From the depths of this parcel she extracted a very thin and crackling silk of a shade between brick and terra-cotta, which was further shot here and there with little threads of pale blue and yellow.
She had got so accustomed to order about girls that she had fallen into the bad habit of expecting that her will should be law to all the world, with the exception of Miss Sandys. As for Mr. and Mrs. Middlemass, they at least knew that she could take care of herself.
Middlemass compare one of their number to Lady Georgiana, although they knew perfectly that the pedler had never in the whole course of her life even spoken to that young lady, who was a head and shoulders taller than Matty, and as unlike her in all particulars as a girl could be. "There!" said the pedler. "Three pound ten! Dirt-cheap.
"It is naturally unpleasant to think that my brother a cousin also of the General's should be contemplating a marriage with her," said Mrs. Vane. "Ah, well perhaps so! We are all under the dominion of personal and selfish prejudice," said Doctor Middlemass. "I hoped that this illness might break the tie between them," sighed Flossy pensively. "So it may, madam by killing him.
Middlemass from her husband and his guest, and not to impose on master or servant the trouble of seeing her home. But as they were exchanging smothered good-byes near the open dining-room door, Mr. Middlemass, who was frank and hospitable, broke through the clatter of knives and forks, and called out unceremoniously, "My dear, who is that you are taking leave of?"
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