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"If the young lady contracts a matrimonial engagement of which you disapprove," Mr. Mool answered, "you are instructed by the testator to assert your reasons in the presence of well, I may describe it, as a family council; composed of Mr. Gallilee, and of Lord and Lady Northlake." "Excessively foolish of Robert," Mrs. Gallilee remarked. "And what, Mr.
I was in a passion when I told her she was mad; but was I altogether wrong? Do you really think the poor creature is in her right senses? "Looking back at your letter, I see that you ask if I have made any new acquaintances. "I have been introduced to one of the sweetest women I ever met with. And who do you think she is? My other aunt Mrs. Gallilee's younger sister, Lady Northlake!
"And my friend," Zo explained, stopping her father in full career. "He takes snuff out of a cow's horn. He shovels it up his fat nose with a spoon, like this. His nose wags. He says, 'Try my sneeshin. Sneeshin's Scotch for snuff. He boos till he's nearly double when uncle Northlake speaks to him. Boos is Scotch for bows. He skirls on the pipes skirls means screeches.
And, by the way, I naturally feel some interest in knowing whether Lady Northlake has any place in the Will." Mrs. Gallilee never said "my sister," never spoke in the family circle of "Susan." The inexhaustible sense of injury, aroused by that magnificent marriage, asserted itself in keeping her sister at the full distance implied by never forgetting her title.
They say she was not so handsome as Mrs. Gallilee, when they were both young. For my part, I can only declare that no such comparison is possible between them now. In look, in voice, in manner there is something so charming in Lady Northlake that I quite despair of describing it. My father used to say that she was amiable and weak; led by her husband, and easily imposed upon.
At the sound of Donald's dreadful name, Ovid looked at his watch, and said there was no time for the song. Mr. Gallilee suddenly and seriously sided with his step-son. "How she got among the men after dinner," he said, "nobody knows. Lady Northlake has forbidden Donald to teach her any more songs; and I have requested him, as a favour to me, not to let her smack his legs.
From the horrid day when Susan became Lady Northlake, Maria became a serious woman. All her earthly interests centred now in the cultivation of her intellect. She started on that glorious career, which associated her with the march of science.
Left free to take his own way, Robert sold the estate merely to get rid of it. With no expensive tastes, except the taste for buying pictures, he became a richer man than ever. When their brother next communicated with them, Lady Northlake and Mrs. Gallilee heard of him as a voluntary exile in Italy.
The statement of this objection stimulated his friend's memory. Lady Northlake was in Scotland. Lady Northlake had invited Maria and Zo, over and over again, to pass the autumn with their cousins; but Mrs. Gallilee's jealousy had always contrived to find some plausible reason for refusal. "Write at once," Mr. Mool advised. "You may do it in two lines.
"Skip Lady Northlake," said Mrs. Gallilee. Mr. Mool skipped. "You are appointed Miss Carmina's guardian, until she comes of age," he resumed. "If she marries in that interval " He paused to turn over a page. Not only Mrs. Gallilee, but Ovid also, now listened with the deepest interest. "If she marries in that interval, with her guardian's approval " "Suppose I don't approve of her choice?" Mrs.
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