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I propose to leave Lucilla under the impression that it is I who have left Dimchurch, and that Nugent's face is the face she sees. If Mr. Sebright proves to be right, and if her first sensation is a sensation of relief, I will own the truth to her the same day. If not, I will wait to make my confession until she has become reconciled to the sight of me. That plan meets every possible emergency.
Had he not been so stuffed with food in his youth, he would probably have been a centenarian. During Nugent's term of office events in Haiti, or San Domingo, as it was still called then, occasioned him great anxiety. Before the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Haiti had been the most prosperous and the most highly civilised of the West Indian islands.
This kindness and these obligations had raised the warmest gratitude in Miss Nugent's heart; and it was the strong principle of gratitude which rendered her capable of endurance and exertions seemingly far above her strength. This young lady was not of a robust appearance, though she now underwent extraordinary fatigue.
I penetrated the surgeon's object in directing my attention to her. Is it possible to be too careful in handling such a sensitive temperament as that?" Understanding him only too well, I also trembled when I thought of the future. Everything now depended on Nugent. And Nugent's own lips had told me that he could not depend on himself! It was a relief to me when Grosse interrupted her.
Dutton, who, though his name did not come prominently forward, had been the prime mover and contriver of all these things, and might have been a wealthier man if he had not undertaken expenses which he could not charge upon the company. Gerard Godfrey came in to Mrs. Nugent's that evening in the lowest spirits.
On his second Sunday at home, to his father's great surprise, he attended church, and after contemplating Miss Nugent's back hair for an hour and a half came home and spoke eloquently and nobly on "burying hatchets," "healing old sores," "letting bygones be bygones," and kindred topics. "I never take much notice of sermons myself," said the captain, misunderstanding. "Sermon?" said his son.
All the seats at the parish church were free, but Captain Nugent, whose admirable practice it was to take his entire family to church, never thoroughly realized how free they were until Master Hardy squeezed his way in and, taking a seat next to him, prayed with unwonted fervour into the interior of a new hat, and then sitting back watched with polite composure the efforts of Miss Nugent's family to re-strain her growing excitement.
'Come, Colambre, added he, taking his son under the arm, and carrying him up to Miss Nugent's dressing-room. They knocked, and were admitted. 'Ready! said Lord Clonbrony; 'ay, always ready so I said. Here's Colambre, my darling, continued he, 'has secured your fortune to you to my heart's content; but he would not condescend to come up to tell you so, till I made him.
If you deliver this, addressed in General Nugent's hand, to the captain of the Proserpina, he will recognize you as the right messenger, and you will then tell him verbally what you have to say." "What shall I tell him?" "Tell him to take in his freight, have his ballast on board, and keep everything in readiness for departure.
You haven't heard Nugent's message yet. Listen to this! 'Present my best and kindest regards to the future Mrs. Isn't that prettily put? Come Lucilla! own that Nugent is worth listening to when he writes about you!" She turned towards him for the first time. The charm of the tone in which he spoke those words subdued her, in spite of herself.
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