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He volunteered, however, a sad admission, that England had certainly lost something of the great nation's proper conception of Force: the meaning of it, virtue of it, and need for it. 'She bleats for a lesson, and will get her lesson. But if we have Captain Dartrey, we shall come through! So said the sparkle of Nesta's eyes. 'She is very like her father, he said to the ladies.
Marsett acted violently the thrill of delight she felt in the prospect. The ladies Dorothea and Virginia, consulted, and pronounced the name of Marsett to be a reputable County name. 'There was a Leicestershire baronet of the name of Marsett. They arranged to send their button- blazing boy at Nesta's heels. Mrs.
It was done for the proof of her unworthiness of Nesta's friendship: that she might be renounced, and embraced. She told the pathetic half of her story, to suit the gentle ear, whose critical keenness was lost in compassion.
Posterley's infatuation; and one besides who belonged to Nesta's musical choir in London: seemed a safe companion for the child. The grand organ of Mr. Barmby's voice, too, assured them of a devout seriousness in him, that arrested any scrupulous little questions.
I wish they were both here now, honeymooning among these peaks, seeing the crescent over one, as we did last night! 'Have you an idea, in reading Nesta's letter? 'Seems indifferent? mere trick to hide the blushes. And I, too, I'm interested in Delphica. Delphica and Falarique will be fine stage business. Of course, Dr. Bouthoin and his curate! we know what Old England has to expect from Colney.
But no sooner was she alone than her torturing perplexities and her abasement of the hours previous to Victor's coming returned. For a girl of Nesta's head could not be deceived; she had come home with a woman's intelligence of the world, hard knowledge of it a knowledge drawn from foul wells, the unhappy mother imagined: she dreaded to probe to the depth of it.
He fell to brooding on it, until he wondered why he had not been made a trifle anxious by the reading of the note overnight. Skepsey was left at Nesta's house. Dartrey found himself expected by the servant waiting on Mrs. Marsett. Judith Marsett stood in her room to receive Nesta's hero.
She left the ground where maternal meditations are serious, at an image of Mr. Barmby knocking at Nesta's heart as a lover. Was it worth inquiry? A feminine look was trailed across the eyes of mademoiselle, with mention of Mr. Barmby's name. Mademoiselle rippled her shoulders. 'We are at present much enamoured of Bethesda.
The look was interpreted by Nesta as belonging to the social annoyances dating, in her calendar, from Creckholt, apprehensively dreaded at Lakelands. She hinted asking, and her mother nodded; not untruthfully; but she put on a briskness after the nod; and a doubt was driven into Nesta's bosom. Her dear Skepsey was coming down to her for a holiday, she was glad to hear.
If Nataly with her sleepless watchfulness and forecasts partook of the French mother, Nesta's Arcadian independence likened her somewhat in manner to the Transatlantic version of the English girl.
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