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Has the castle been thoroughly searched? There are stories of children who have hidden themselves in sport, to find the sport end in terrible earnest." "The castle has been searched from garret to cellar," answered Mrs. Morden. "Mrs. Smithson and I have gone together into every room, and opened every cupboard." The captain dismissed the assembly, after having asked many questions without result.
If you had asked her to describe herself, she would have answered, "I am a gentlewoman"; and if you had further inquired which of her numerous accomplishments took highest rank in her own esteem, she would have replied, "My powers of conversation." For the rest, she was Miss Pink, of South Morden; and, when that has been said, all has been said. "Pray be seated, sir.
Suddenly the dying man raised himself in bed. "I want my wife!" he said imperiously. "I tell tha, I want my wife!" It was as though the last energy of being had thrown itself into the cry indignant, passionate, protesting. Meynell rose. "I will bring her." Bateson gripped his hand. "Tell her to mind that cottage at Morden End and the night we came home there first as married folk.
But, upon the whole, this I do repeat That nothing but the last extremity shall make me abandon my father's house, if they will permit me to stay; and if I can, by any means, by any honest pretences, but keep off my evil destiny in it till my cousin Morden arrives.
Solmes, I will enter into any engagements never to have the other, nor any man else, without their consents; that is to say, without the consents of my father and my mother, and of you my uncle, and my elder uncle, and my cousin Morden, as he is one of the trustees for my grandfather's bounty to me?
Lovelace told me, that on the supposition that his proposal in relation to my cousin Morden might not be accepted, he had been studying to find out, if possible, some other expedient that might be agreeable, in order to convince me, that he preferred my satisfaction to his own. He then offered to go himself, and procure my Hannah to come and attend me.
I shall never like Sir Edward Morden again! But, oh! what can that be? Where is the Colonel?" It was a loud, frightful roar and yell, a sound of concentrated fury that, once heard, could never be forgotten. It was from the crowd outside, many of them from Avonmouth, and all frantic with indignation at the cruelty that had been perpetrated upon the helpless children.
See in his next letter, a repeated account of the same artifices, and his exultations upon his inventions to impose upon the two such watchful ladies as Clarissa and Miss Howe. 'Do you incline to go to Florence to your cousin Morden? I will furnish you with an opportunity of going thither, either by sea to Leghorn, or by land through France.
Brown, looking with surprise at the gift, which he held with no unwilling hand, "I am sure, sir, that you are very generous, and strongly remind me of your relation, Lady Morden; and if you would like the lovely little ape as a present I mean really a present you shall have it, Mr. Mordaunt." But Mr.
Let the child remain in the castle during your absence. She will be safe with Mrs. Morden. "Clarendon Hotel, London." This, and the date, was all. Captain Copplestone sat for some moments staring at this document with a look of unmitigated perplexity. "I can't make it out," he muttered to himself. Presently he said aloud to Mrs. Morden
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