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The presence of a woman of tongue, perpetually on the spring to gratify him and win him, was among the burdens he bore for his Aminta. Mrs. Pagnell soon perceived that the secretary was in favour. My lord and this Mr.
And in an accident the stringy fellow, young Weyburn, could be trusted for giving his attention to the ladies especially to the younger of the two, taking him for the man his elders were at his age. As for Pagnell, a Providence watches over the Pagnells! Mortals have no business to interfere. An accident on water would be a frolic to his girl. Swimming was a gift she had from nature.
But she forbore from asking how it was that the Countess of Ormont had come to the place. At a symptom of her intention to indulge in disgust; Aminta brought up Mr. Morsfield by name; whereupon Mrs. Pagnell showed she had reflected on her conduct in relation to the gentleman, and with the fear of the earl if she were questioned.
"She's one of the living women of the world." "You are sure you don't mean one of the worldly women?" Mrs. Pagnell rejoiced. "She has to be known to be liked," he owned. "And you were, one hears, among the favoured?" "I can scarcely pretend to that, ma'am." "You were recommended." "Lady Charlotte is devoted to her brother." Mrs. Pagnell's bosom heaved. "How strange Lord Ormont is!
It looked like the beginning of a run to enter the house. Mrs. Pagnell ran after her. She ran cow-like. The earl's gorge rose at the spectacle Charlotte was observing. With Morsfield he could have settled accounts at any moment, despatching Aminta to her chamber for an hour.
Pagnell, from her just expectation of reciprocal dealings in high society; for she confessed herself a fly to a title. Where is the shame, if titles are created to attract? Elsewhere than in that upper circle, we may anticipate hard bargains; the widow of a solicitor had not to learn it.
Pagnell had been communing with himself unwontedly during the recent weeks. What was the riddle of him? That, he did not read. But, expecting an assault, and relieved by his sister Charlotte's departure with Weyburn, he went to the drawing-room, where he had seen her sniff her strong suspicions of a lady coming to throne it.
And although he is a great nobleman, he is not to presume to behave any longer, my dear, as if your family had no claim on his consideration. My husband, Alfred Pagnell, would have laid that before him pretty quick. You are the child of the Farrells and the Solers, both old families; on your father's side you are linked with the oldest nobility in Europe. It flushes one to think of it!
Pagnell wrote at her desk, and fussed, and ordered the posting chariot, and bewailed herself submissively; for it was the Countess of Ormont speaking when Aminta delivered commands, and the only grievance she dared to mutter was 'the unexpectedness. Her letters having been despatched, she was amazed in the late evening to hear Aminta give the footman orders for the chariot to be ready at the door an hour earlier than the hour previously appointed.
Pagnell could be counted on for drawing in her tongue when the domestics were near. A languor past delivery in sighs was on the young woman's breast. She could have heard without a regret that the heart was to cease beating. Had it been downright misery she would have looked about her with less of her exanimate glassiness. The unhappy have a form of life: until they are worn out, they feel keenly.
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