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"I don't know what he thinks he has done to you," said Clarence, "I could scarcely make him come in. He says he is sure you can't wish to see him." This was two days after the dinner, when Horace Northcote came to leave a respectful card, hoping that he might see Ursula at a door or window. Clarence had seized upon him and dragged him in, in spite of himself.
Her eyes are light brown, and ... they are the most meaning I ever saw.... As for Godwin himself he has large noble eyes and a nose oh, most abominable nose. Language is not vituperatious enough to describe the effect of its downward elongation." Godwin, if one may trust the portrait by Northcote, had impressive if not exactly handsome features.
You were colder than they were, and I thought it was natural, quite natural, for it is easier to forgive for one's self than for those one loves; and then I thought you melted and grew kinder to me, that you saw how all my ideas were changed, all my feelings my mind itself; changed by the great charity, the wonderful goodness I have found here!" "Mr. Northcote!"
A sprawling copy of Titian's Venus flanked a somewhat prim peeress by Hoppner; a landscape that smacked of Gainsborough was the companion of a dauby moonlight, that must have figured in the last exhibition; and insipid Roman matrons by Hamilton, and stiff English heroes by Northcote, contrasted with a vast quantity of second-rate delineations of the orgies of Dutch boors and portraits of favourite racers and fancy dogs.
What did she mean? to "catch" Clarence Copperhead, who would be a great match, or to fascinate Northcote? Oddly enough Mr. May never thought of Reginald, though that young man showed an eagerness to talk to Phoebe which was more than equal with his own, and had always subjects laid up ready to discuss with her, when he could find the opportunity.
According to Northcote, Reynolds said of his sister's oil-paintings, 'they made other people laugh and him cry. 'She generally, Northcote adds, 'did them by stealth. Life of Reynolds, ii. 160. 'Nocte, inter 16 et 17 Junii, 1783.
Besides, it's very instructive, as I've always heard: and you as is clever, of course you'll understand every word. Mr. Northcote is a nicish-looking sort of young man. Ministers mayn't be much," said Mrs. Tozer, "though just see how your papa has got on, my dear.
After he had finished, he took up the little note from the table with a look of disgust. It was badly scrawled, badly folded, and dirty. Thank Heaven, Cotsdean's communications would soon be over now. Janey had proposed a round game upstairs. They were all humble in their desire to conciliate that young despot. Reginald got the cards, and Northcote put chairs round the table.
Phoebe smiled. "I don't think that is quite the question," she said, "but never mind. I suppose you are here on some mission? You would not come to Carlingford for pleasure." "Nay," said Northcote, with a reproachful tone. "I should have thought you must have heard of our Meeting. It is for to-night.
Sir Stafford Northcote thus addressed the House of Commons after twelve years' experience of the Gladstone Budget:
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