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But he was shamefaced about the matter, as heroes not uncommonly are with regard to their achievements, and was disposed to think himself at an even unusual disadvantage. Bertha stifled in her heart whatever tender sentiments Protheroe had inspired, and was prepared to pass him whenever she might meet him with such a manner as should indicate her new opinion of him beyond chance of mistake.
'Oh yes, you have, he answered. 'All the right in the world. If you'll take in hand to show me my faults, I'll take in hand to cure 'em so far as a man may. 'I don't think you're fickle, said the girl hesitatingly; 'but I do think you're shallow, Mr. Protheroe. 'Not a bit of it, dear, he protested. 'I'm as deep as Gamck.
Then she got a further letter, very short, saying that a half-year's interest on the loan had, by Mr Ball's consent, been paid to Mrs Mackenzie by Rubb and Mackenzie. On the day following this, when she was sitting up in her bedroom, Mrs Protheroe came to her, dressed in wonderful habiliments.
I was taken as usual to the Exchange, where I pledged myself, if supported at all by the friends of Romilly, that I would present and prosecute a petition to Parliament against the return of Davis and Protheroe.
The man whom she had learned to love had left her. There was no place in the world on which her feet might rest till she had made one for herself by the work of her hands. And as for friends was there a single being in the world whom she could now call her friend? The Lodgings of Mrs Buggins, Née Protheroe
The general impression was that the bill would pass. Alonzo Rawson sat, bent over his desk, his eyes fixed with gentle steadiness upon Mrs. Protheroe, who occupied the chair wherein he had first seen her. A senator of the opposition was finishing his denunciation, when she turned and nodded almost imperceptibly to the young man. He gave her one last look of pathetic tenderness and rose.
Protheroe, for the purpose of taking away the votes from me. After several meetings had been held upon the subject, it was determined upon, by a little faction, to invite Sir Samuel Romilly to become a candidate. I am quite confident, in my own mind, that if it had not been for the opposition which it was certain would be made by me, there would not have been any opposition at all. Mr.
"Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, that the Honourable House will take the premises into their most serious consideration, and that the election and return of the said Richard Hart Davis, Esquire, and Edward Protheroe, Esquire, maybe declared to be null and void; and that such further relief may be granted to your petitioners as the justice of the case may require."
She would have preferred to write to Hannah Protheroe, or Mrs Protheroe, as she was now called by brevet rank since she had held a house of her own, had time permitted her to do so. But time and the circumstances did not permit this, and therefore she had herself driven to Arundel Street without any notice.
'Well? said Protheroe, without turning his head. 'I shall want a word with thee by and by, my lad, Thistlewood said quietly. 'Have it now, replied Lane, settling his shoulders jauntily. 'There's time in plenty afore us, Thistlewood answered, regarding him with supreme disfavour. The younger man looked straight before him with an exasperating aspect of indifference. 'When you like, he said.
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