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Updated: June 12, 2025
She gave out that he was not to be for one moment accused of having encouraged her by secret addresses. It was her unsolicited avowal thought by my aunt Dorothy immodest, not by me that she preferred him to all living men. Her name was Anna Penrhys.
'In heaven's name keep me from marriage, my lady! I heard him reply. There was sincerity in his tone when he said that. The friends of Miss Penrhys were ill advised in trying to cry down a man like my father. Active persecution was the breath of life to him. When untroubled he was apt to let both his ambition and his dignity slumber.
Think whether she is capable of sacrifice before you compel her to it. Do not inflict misery wantonly. One would like to see her. Harry, I brood on your future; that is why I seem to you preternaturally anxious about you. She seemed to me preternaturally anxious about Miss Penrhys. My father listened in silence to my flippant satire on women's letters. He answered after a pause,
Where I served him perhaps was in showing my resolution to protect him: he had been insulted before my arrival. The male relatives of Miss Penrhys did not repeat the insult; they went to Lady Wilts and groaned over their hard luck in not having the option of fighting me. I was, in her phrase, a new piece on the board, and checked them.
I thought of Lady Edbury; but her income was limited, and her expenditure was not of Lady Sampleman, but it was notorious that she loved her purse as well as my aunt Dorothy, and was even more, in the squire's phrase, 'a petticoated parsimony. Anna Penrhys appeared the likelier, except for the fact that the commencement of the annuity was long before our acquaintance with her.
He had visited my grandfather's mine, and that of Miss Penrhys, and was astounded; had said of me that I wanted but a title to be as brilliant a parti as any in Europe.
Tell me nothing more just now. How did you manage it? I must have a gallop. Yes, I shall be at both, be sure of that. My father introduced me. 'Let me present to your notice my son, Harry Lepel Richmond, Miss Penrhys. She touched my fingers, and nodded at me; speaking to him: 'He has a boy's taste: I hear he esteems me moderately well-favoured.
Lady Wilts had assumed the right of a woman still possessing attractions to exert her influence with him on behalf of the family, for I had done my best to convince her that he entertained no serious thought of marrying, and decidedly would not marry without my approval. He acted on her advice to discourage the wilful girl. 'How is it I am so hateful to you? Miss Penrhys accosted me abruptly.
I thought of the squire, Lady Edbury, my aunt, Lady Sampleman, Anna Penrhys, some one or other of his frantic female admirers. But the largeness of the amount, and the channel selected for the payment, precluded the notion that any single person had come to succour him in his imminent need, and, as it chanced, mine.
Lady Wilts had assumed the right of a woman still possessing attractions to exert her influence with him on behalf of the family, for I had done my best to convince her that he entertained no serious thought of marrying, and decidedly would not marry without my approval. He acted on her advice to discourage the wilful girl. 'How is it I am so hateful to you? Miss Penrhys accosted me abruptly.
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