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His father was again falsely jocular: "What? and catch the train after giving it ten minutes' start?" "Cassandra will take me," said the young man earnestly. "I needn't ride her hard, sir. Or perhaps you would lend me your Winkelried? I should be down with him in little better than three hours." "Even then, you know, the park-gates would be locked." "Well, I could stable him in the village.
Several of the other gentlemen had hurried out on foot towards the park-gates, near which they found General Sampson dismounted, and bending over the steward. "He is alive, I am thankful to say," said the general; "and as I shall have no chance of overtaking Castleton and the dragoons, I shall be of more service in looking after this worthy man."
Look ye, sir,’ resumed he, turning to his other neighbour, and pointing past me with his umbrella, ‘that’s the Hall: grand park, you see, and all them woods—plenty of timber there, and lots of game. Hallo! what now?’ This exclamation was occasioned by the sudden stoppage of the coach at the park-gates.
The Stuarts were dethroned by a revolution, which is a law of nature, and enacted by God, and which of course overshadows all other laws when it gets into the ascendant, as it clearly has done in this case. I take it, Sir Wycherly, these are your park-gates, and that yonder is the Hall."
When they had entered the park-gates, Sir Harry spoke. "You must understand, George" he had not called him George before since the engagement had been made known to him "that you cannot yet be admitted here as my daughter's accepted suitor, as might have been the case had your past life been different." "I see all that," said Cousin George.
Cunning to such a degree of seductive genius that the masterpiece it offered to his contemplation enabled him simultaneously to gaze on Clara and think of Laetitia. Clara came through the park-gates with Vernon, a brilliant girl indeed, and a shallow one: a healthy creature, and an animal; attractive, but capricious, impatient, treacherous, foul; a woman to drag men through the mud.
To this, then, all who were not lovers began seriously to look forward, and the advance of an excellent county band, specially hired to play during the entertainment, gave many of the guests quite a new taste for sweet music; and indeed we all enjoy a thing infinitely more when we see its meaning. About this time Evan entered the lower park-gates with Andrew.
I will try to get help for them elsewhere." Georgiana was pleased by Emilia's manner of taking the rebuff; but it required an altercation before she consented to this postponement; she nodded her head finally in anger. By the park-gates that evening, Wilfrid received a letter from the hands of Tracy Runningbrook. It said: "I am not able to see you now.
It was sufficient excuse that I could not longer absent myself from my patients; accordingly I gave directions to have the few things which I had brought with me sent to my house by any servant who might be going to L , and was soon pleased to find myself outside the park-gates and on the high-road. I had not gone a mile before I met Strahan on horseback.
Her lips were shut, her eyelids nervously tremulous. They were soon in the warm sweet open air, and they walked without an interchange of a syllable through the park into the white hawthorn lane, glad to breathe. Her nostrils took long draughts of air, but of the change of, scene she appeared scarcely sensible. At the park-gates, she said: 'There is no necessity four your coming.
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