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At thirty the Duchess of Dovedale had lost all her babies, save one frail sapling, a girl of two years old, who promised to have a somewhat better constitution than her perished brothers and sisters. On this small paragon the Duchess concentrated her cares and hopes. She gave up hunting much to the disgust of that Nimrod, her husband in order to superintend her nursery.
"On the principle of the ice-boats," said Fleda, "that back a little to give a better blow to the ice, where they find it tough?" "Tough!" said Constance. "Does Florence like this paragon of yours as well as you do?" "I don't know she don't talk so much about him, but that proves nothing; she's too happy to talk to him.
"And approach!" added Miss Lawrence. "And putt!" declared Miss Ross. "It was grand!" "Let us see this paragon of all the golfing virtues without delay," laughed Miss Harding, and half an hour later our automobile stopped in front of the Bishop house. Wallace must have been on the outlook for us, since he appeared directly. He seemed a bit surprised to see me, but greeted us pleasantly.
He was brought up by a weak mother and a doting aunt, and she knows you don't approve of him." "Does she expect a man to approve of one who maligned him as Lowndes maligned me?" "You should see his earlier letters about you! Why, if I'd known anything of them I would never dared to meet such a paragon." "And yet, after all, he turned to and painted me black as an imp of Satan.
A thousand whispers circulated; as many glasses were exalted to reconnoitre this box of foreigners; for such they concluded them to be from their appearance. Every male spectator acknowledged Serafina to be the paragon of beauty; and every female confessed, that Melvil was the model of a fine gentleman.
Peter looked at him and went upstairs and packed his portmanteau. The lawyer handed over the keys to the new squire, and then everything was done. The New Minister "Poor old Paragon!" exclaimed Archibald Currie, as he stood with his back to the fire among his colleagues at the Foreign Office on the day after John Morton's death. "Poor young Paragon! that's the pity of it," said Mounser Green.
"Auntie, you fairly takeaway my breath!" said Laura, in the same half-jesting spirit." Where have my eyes been? Pray, who is this paragon, who must, indeed, be nearly perfect, to satisfy your standard?" "You must discover him for yourself; as you say, he appears to be but a gentleman, and would be the last one in the world to think of himself as a knight, or to fill your ideal of one.
"I promise; be quick! Marwitz will die of curiosity, if you do not tell the name of this wonder." "Well, now, that I have, so far as it is in my power, guarded the heart of this young girl from disaster, and placed it under the protecting eye of our noble princess, I venture to name my paragon. He is the young lieutenant-Baron von Trenck, the favorite of the king and the court."
It is instructive as well as just to remember that all this time the man was strictly, nay sensitively, honourable in his private dealings, that he was regarded by his fellows as a paragon of probity, that his word was never questioned, that of personal corruption calumny itself, so far as we are aware, never dared to accuse him.
Probably Miss Sprague meant a paragon she was not very careful in her speech, but Mrs. Larkin did not smile at her mistake. She was too much troubled at the news she had just heard. A dollar a week may seem a ridiculous trifle to some of my readers, but, where the entire income of the family was so small, it was a matter of some consequence.
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