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"Blind as I am," she said, "I see him again now!" "The bridegroom?" "Yes." "Oscar?" "No." "Who then?" "Oscar's brother. Nugent Dubourg." If I have not, I beg to mention it now. "What is there to laugh at?" she asked angrily. "I saw his hideous, discolored face I am never blind in my dreams! I felt his blue hand put the ring on my finger. Wait! The worst part of it is to come.
'I never named Miss Nugent to you. No! it is not easy to me to talk of her, and impossible to me to describe her. If you had come one half-hour sooner this morning, you would have seen her: I know she is exactly suited to your excellent taste. But it is not at first sight she pleases most; she gains upon the affections, attaches the heart, and unfolds upon the judgment.
"Now, Dan'l, 'op round to Teddy and whistle 'im back, and mind 'e's to keep it a dead secret on account o' trouble with young Nugent. D'ye twig?" The admiring Mr. Kybird said that he was a wonder, and, in the discussion on ways and means which followed, sat listening with growing respect to the managing abilities both of his friend and his wife.
Lord Nugent was particularly attentive to her, and evidently admired her very much; bitterly she thought that she could gain, unsought, the civilities of one man, whilst she was but too conscious that the one she cared the most for in the world, was devoting himself almost exclusively to the Nugents.
And besides, there never was a good commander yet, by sea or land, that would tell his little expedients beforehand, or before the very day of battle." "It must be a sad thing," said Miss Nugent, sighing deeply, "to be reduced to live by little expedients daily expedients." Lord Colambre struck his forehead, but said nothing.
We may mention Hardwicke, reputed the first lawyer of the age; Legge, reputed the first financier of the age; the acute and ready Oswald; the bold and humorous Nugent; Charles Townshend, the most brilliant and versatile of mankind; Elliot, Barrington, North, Pratt.
Master Hardy pursued the even tenor of his way. "Who's afraid to answer me for fear my father will thrash him?" cried the disappointed lady, raising her voice. This was too much. The enemy retraced his steps and came up to the gate. "You're a rude little girl," he said, with an insufferably grown-up air. "Who had his hair pulled?" demanded Miss Nugent, capering wildly; "who had his hair pulled?"
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.
"Well, I can't make head or tail of it," said Nugent, rising and pacing the room. "I came here to meet my father. So far as I remember I had one drink of whisky your whisky and then I woke up in your bedroom with a splitting headache and a tongue like a piece of leather. Can you account for it?" Mr. Wilks shook his head again. "I wasn't here," he said, plucking up courage.
At the foot of Nugent Street, which they now reached, the girls and boys from Central High heard suddenly a great shouting and peals of laughter from up the hill. Some snow still lay on the side of Nugent Street; and the hill was a glare of ice. Down the steep descent were coming three or four heavy sleds loaded with young folks. Many of them were girls and boys of Central High.
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