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"To pave the way for me," said Hardy, raising his voice as he thought of his wrongs; "and now, owing to your confounded matrimonial business, that's all knocked on the head. I wouldn't care whom you married if it didn't interfere with my affairs so." "Do you mean," inquired the astonished Mr. Nugent, "that you want to be on friendly terms with my father?" "Yes." Mr. Nugent gazed at him round-eyed.
And how she might resent that deception, thus discovered, the cleverest person among us could not pretend to foresee. Finding it impossible to attract his brother's attention, Nugent had no alternative but to interfere actively for the first time. "Let me suggest, Lucilla," he said, "that it is your duty to look at the other side of the question, before you make up your mind.
"Yes, yes. Don't you be frightened of that. Not much pains to bear not much pains." She tapped him smartly on the shoulder with her hand. "Get up, Herr Grosse," she said. "If you have your knife about you, here am I do it at once!" Nugent started. Mr. Sebright started. Her daring amazed them both.
At the conclusion she broke down entirely and was led up to bed by Kate and Bella, the sympathy of the latter taking an acute form, and consisting mainly of innuendoes which could only refer to one person in the house. Kate Nugent, who was not prone to tears, took a different line, but with no better success.
But women can wail at heart and show a fair face to the world. Her stretched smile had lost none of its sweetness, her eyes none of their brightness. Vera Nugent watched her narrowly, and led the conversation upstairs. She thought that she detected a pensive note, but assured herself that all was pretty well.
Silk, with alarming vagueness. "But suppose she asks me to?" said the delighted Mr. Nugent, with much gravity. "Look 'ere, we don't want none o' your non-sense," broke in the irate Mrs. Kybird, pushing her way past her husband and confronting the speaker. "I've been deceived," said Mr. Nugent in a thrilling voice; "you've all been deceiving me. Teddy, I wouldn't have believed it of you.
He sighed with ponderous complacency, and turned from me to the girl behind the counter. "I will take another cup of tea." Oscar's reception of me, when I found him on the platform, and told him next of Lucilla's critical state, was more than discouraging. It is no exaggeration to say that he alarmed me. "Another item in the debt I owe to Nugent!" he said.
'My dearest friend! said Miss Nugent, in a tone of true sympathy. 'But none but a coward, or a fool would sit down in the desert and weep, instead of trying to make his way back before the storm rises, obliterates the track, and overwhelms everything. Poetry apart, my dear Grace, you may be assured that I shall think no more of Lord Colambre. 'I believe you are right.
Dear ladies, is not this now a very sudden motion of our young lord's for Ireland? Lud a mercy! Miss Nugent, I'm sure your motions is sudden enough; and your dress behind is all, I'm sure, I can't tell how. 'Oh, never mind, said the young lady, escaping from her; 'it will do very well, thank you, Petito.
'The sooner this difficulty is off my mind, the sooner this painful letter is written, the better, thought he. 'It must be done I will do it immediately. He snatched up his pen, and began a letter. My dear mother Miss Nugent He was interrupted by a knock at his door. 'A gentleman below, my lord, said a servant, 'who wishes to see you. I cannot see any gentleman. Did you say I was at home?
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