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With such thoughts as these crossing his mind he certainly was not going to proclaim his engagement to Lady Penwether. But Lady Penwether was a determined woman. Her smile, when she condescended to smile, was very sweet, lighting up her whole face and flattering for the moment the person on whom it shone.
There were six or seven people in the room, mostly ladies, and tea was offered to the new-comers. Lady Penwether was largely made, like her brother; but was a languidly lovely woman, not altogether unlike Arabella herself in her figure and movements, but with a more expressive face, with less colour, and much more positive assurance of high breeding.
Lady Penwether was said to be haughty, but it was admitted by all people that when Lady Penwether had said a thing or had done a thing, it might be taken for granted that the way in which she had done or said that thing was the right way.
She could be sprightly enough; but at times there seemed to come a cold melancholy upon her too. It is I fancy so with most of your English ladies. Miss Trefoil always gave me the idea of being a good type of the English aristocracy." Lady Penwether and Miss Penge drew themselves up very stiffly. "You admired her, I think, my Lord."
"No doubt you are intimate with Lady Penwether, Lady Augustus," said Mrs. Morton. Now Lady Penwether was a very fashionable woman whom to know was considered an honour. "What makes you ask, ma'am?" said Lady Augustus. "Only as you were taking your daughter to her brother's house, and as he is a bachelor." "My dear Mrs. Morton, really you may leave me to take care of myself and of my daughter too.
Gotobed began to tell the story of yesterday's meeting, complaining of the absurdity of the old farmer's anger. "Penwether told me about it," said the Lord. "I suppose your tenant is a little crazy." "By no means. I thought he was right in what he said, if I understood Penwether." "He couldn't have been right.
It would be utterly worthless unless corroborated, and the Scrobby party was not yet aware how clever Nickem had been. Thus all Rufford was interested in the case. Lord Rufford, Sir George Penwether, his Lordship's agent, and Mr.
During this time Morton fell into conversation first with Lady Purefoy and then with the two Miss Godolphins, and afterwards for a few minutes with Lady Penwether who knew that he was a county gentleman and a respectable member of the diplomatic profession.
"She must have remembered that when she was last here he was of the party, and it was but a few weeks ago, only a little before Christmas. He struck me as being cold in his manner as an affianced lover. Was not that your idea, Lady Penwether?" "I don't think I observed him especially." "I have reason to believe that he was much attached to her.
As all the world knows she came from one of the oldest Commoner's families in the West of England, and is, moreover, a handsome young woman, only twenty-seven years of age. Lady Penwether thinks that she is the very woman to be mistress of Rufford, and I do not know that Miss Penge herself is averse to the idea.
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