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Morsfield complimented him over the exhibition of a vastly superior and more serviceable wit, in losing sight of his antagonist after one trial of him. Cumnock protested that the loss of time was caused by his friend's dalliance with the Venus in the chariot. Morsfield's gall seethed at a flying picture of Mrs.
The noise in London over Adolphus Morsfield's tragical end disturbed Lord Ormont much less than the cessation of letters from his Aminta; and that likewise, considering his present business on her behalf, he patiently shrugged at and pardoned, foreseeing her penitent air. He could do it lightly after going some way to pardon his offending country.
Weyburn stopped his questioning, with the reflection that he had no right to recollect her words thus accurately. The words, however, stamped Morsfield's doings and sayings and postures in the presence of Aminta with significance. When the ladies were looking on at the fencers, Morsfield's perfect coxcombry had been noticeable. He knew the art of airing a fine figure. Mrs.
Morsfield kindly offers his protection, and I accept. He is company. Nodding and smirking at Morsfield's approach, she entreated Aminta to step up and in, for the horses were coming out of the yard. Aminta looked round. Weyburn was perceived; and Morsfield's features cramped at thought of a hitch in the plot. 'Possession, Mrs. Pagnell murmured significantly. She patted the seat.
She was, therefore, having smothered a good part of herself, accountably languid a condition alternating with fire in Aminta; and as Mr. Morsfield's letter supplied the absent element, her needy instinct pushed her to read his letter through. She had not yet done that with attention. Whether a woman loves a man or not, he is her lover if he dare tell her he loves her, and is heard with attention.
She had to resign herself to the chances of a clash of men, and, as there were two to one, she requested help of Weyburn's hand, that he might be near her. A mounted gentleman, smelling parasite in his bearing, held the bridle of Morsfield's horse. The ladies having entered the chariot, Morsfield sprang to the saddle, and said: 'You, sir, had better stretch your legs to the inn.
Morsfield complimented him over the exhibition of a vastly superior and more serviceable wit, in losing sight of his antagonist after one trial of him. Cumnock protested that the loss of time was caused by his friend's dalliance with the Venus in the chariot. Morsfield's gall seethed at a flying picture of Mrs.
That man Morsfield's name mixed up with a sham Countess of Ormont, in the stories flying abroad, can't hurt anybody. A true Countess of Ormont we 're cut to the quick. 'We 're cut! Your quick, Charlotte, is known to court the knife. Letters of the morning's post were brought in.
And the man, the only man, insensible to her charm or her scorn, was her own wedded lord and husband. Old, to be sure, and haughty, his pride might not allow him to overlook poor Mr. Morsfield's unintentional offence. But the presence of the countess's aunt was a reply to any charge he might seek to establish.
I must have a testified account of her life before you met her and got the worst of it. Then, as the case may be, I 'll call on her. 'You will behave yourself when you call. 'But she won't have our family jewels. 'That affair has been settled by me. 'I should be expecting to hear of them as decorating the person of one of that man Morsfield's mistresses. The earl's brow thickened.
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