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Updated: May 28, 2025
Nothing was heard but the ticking of Lady Oldfield's watch, which stood in its case on the dressing-table. Again the poor mother opened the same precious Gospel of Saint Luke, and read out calmly and clearly the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican.
As she sits in the green-room, smiling in girlish triumph while she looks around at the beaux and players who crowd about her, anxious to worship the rising star, her eloquent glance falls on George Farquhar. There is a tear in his eye, but a radiant expression about the face. What does the Oldfield's success mean to the Captain?
His father, at Lady Oldfield's urgent request, kept him at home, and engaged a private tutor for him, whose office would have been a sinecure but for the concern it gave him to find his pupil so hard to drag along the most level paths of learning.
Both uncle and nephew scrutinised it attentively. At last Hubert said, "I can tell now who this belonged to." "Who?" cried the man, eagerly. "Why, to one Juniper Graves, a servant of Mr Frank Oldfield's. He chose to take upon himself to have his letters from England directed to the care of my uncle, and this is one of the envelopes." "And where is he?
Verbruggen the actress, the same who was some years before Mrs. Mountfort, whom Mrs. The author of Mrs. Oldfield's life says, that she has often heard her mention some agreeable hours she spent with captain Farquhar: As she was a lady of true delicacy, nor meanly prostituted herself to every adorer, it would be highly ungenerous to suppose, that their hours ever passed in criminal freedoms.
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