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"Hear me, my beloved John for you are a man of sense," said his unblushing father: "do you think I'd have a drop of black blood for my daughter-in-law, much less let my favourite son But there's none it is climate all climate as you may see by only looking at Mrs. Governor Carneguy, how she figures every where; and Miss Petcalf is nothing near so dark as Mrs. Carneguy, surely."
Hungerford's, and taking a polite leave of the Falconer family. Here was a death-blow to all Georgiana's hopes! But we shall not stay to describe her disappointment, or the art of her mother in concealing it; nor shall we accompany Mrs. Falconer to town, to see how her designs upon the Clays or Petcalf prospered. We must follow Count Altenberg to Hungerford Castle.
"I told her so, my dear, and she acquiesces she submits she is ready to obey if nothing better offers." "If Ay, there it is! All the time I know you are looking to the Clays; and if they fail, somebody else will start up, whom you will think a better match than Petcalf, and all these people are to be feted, and so you will go on, wasting my money and your own time.
Falconer, though scarcely less confounded, never changed a muscle of her face, but leaving every body to choose their various comments upon the Count's words, and simply saying, "Are the Percys come at last?" she won her easy way through the crowd, whispering to young Petcalf as she passed, "Now is your time, Petcalf, my good creature Georgiana is disengaged." Before Mrs.
Falconer became acquainted with her at Tunbridge, and has devised this plan for Arabella. I fear Bell's disposition will not suit such a situation, but she has no other resource. "Mrs. Falconer and Georgiana have so over-managed matters with respect to Petcalf, that it has ended, as I long since feared it would, in his breaking off. If Mrs.
An indeed so unlike Lord Oldborough's, that the commissioner, struck with the contrast, could scarcely maintain the gravity the occasion required, and he could only pronounce the words, "General Petcalf has a daughter." "Ay, Miss Petcalf ay, he is a general; true now I see it all: well, I'm their man I have no objection But Miss Petcalf! is not that the Indian girl?
The commissioner was so much delighted, that he willingly permitted his lady to enjoy her triumph over him. "Now only consider, commissioner," she pursued, "if I had huddled up that match with Petcalf! Petcalf, I'll answer for it, in case of necessity, that is, in case of any difficulty on the part of Sir Robert Percy, I can turn over to Bell.
"I certainly wish you, my darling, to appear well, especially as all the world will be here: the two Clays by-the-bye, here's their letter they come to-morrow and in short the whole world; but, as to money, there's but one way of putting your father into good-humour enough with you to touch upon that string." "One way well, if there be one way any way." "Petcalf!" "Oh! Petcalf is my abhorrence "
"Till Georgiana is married," said she to herself, "the commissioner will never let me have peace: if English Clay's breaking off the match gets wind, we are undone; for who will think of a rejected girl, beautiful or fashionable though she be? So the best thing that can be done is to marry her immediately to Petcalf. I will have it so and the wedding-clothes will not have been bought in vain."
"I grant you all that, my dear; but our present object is the play Zara's royal robes cannot be had for nothing, you know you never listened to my infallible means of obtaining your wish: I think I can engage that the commissioner will not refuse us, if you will empower me to say to him, that by this time twelvemonth, if nothing better offers mind my if Petcalf shall be rewarded for his constancy."
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