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You have no other resource than a profession, at which, as yet, you have made nothing. There is some reason in Mrs. Miller's objection to you. Nor should I be willing to let my daughter marry an idle man who will live upon her money. Then, on the other hand, Mr. Pryme, I find that my girl is fond of you, and, if this is the case, I am unwilling to make her unhappy.
The visit had come to an end uneventfully for either of them; but two days after his departure from the house Mr. Pryme had been guilty of a gross piece of indiscretion. He had forgotten to observe a golden rule which should be strongly impressed upon every man and woman. The maxim should be inculcated upon the young with at least as much earnestness as the Catechism or the Ten Commandments.
Cornelia had a different lot. She leaned on the right arm of the Member for Hillford, the statistical debate, Sir Twickenham Pryme, who had twice before, as he ventured to remind her, enjoyed the honour of conversing, if not of dining, with her. Nay, more, he revived their topics. "And I have come round to your way of thinking as regards hustings addresses," he said.
Pryme, with his hands in his pockets, began once more to whistle, as though the events of the afternoon had never taken place. But love is such a mystery, I cannot find it out, For when I think I'm best resolved, I then am most in doubt." Sir J. Suckling. Lady Kynaston sat alone in her little morning-room; as far as she knew, she was alone in the house; Mrs.
In homely language, it runs something in this fashion: "Say what you like, but never commit yourself to paper." Mr. Pryme had observed the first portion of this maxim religiously, but he had failed to pay equal regard to the latter.
Pryme and Miss Miller came to be found in the parish of Tripton at nine o'clock in the morning, standing together under a wet hedge-row, it will be necessary to take a slight retrospect of what had taken place in the history of these two people since the time when the young barrister had spent that memorable week at Shadonake.
Pryme, however, is evidently not a keen sports-man; he has declined the offer of a mount which Guy Miller has hospitably pressed upon him, and he has also declined to avail himself of his host's offer of the services of the gamekeeper. Curiously enough, another guest at Shadonake, whose zeal for hunting has never yet been impeached, has followed his example.
"By the way, are you at all conscious of a sound-like absurdity in a Christian name of three syllables preceding a surname of one? Sir Twickenham Pryme! Cornelia's pronunciation of the name first gave me the feeling. The 'Twickenham' seems to perform a sort of educated monkey kind of ridiculously decorous pirouette and entrechat before the 'Pryme. I think that Cornelia feels it also.
Adela found it necessary to address some such comforting exclamation as 'Goodness gracious! to her observant spirit. In the park-path, leading to the wood, Arabella was seen as they came out the young branches that fringed the firs. She hurried up. "I have been looking for you. Papa has arrived with Sir Twickenham Pryme, who dines with us." Adela unhesitatingly struck a blow.
"Fiddlesticks!" was Maurice's rejoinder. "There are no laws to prevent young women falling in love, or the world would not be in such a confounded muddle as it frequently is. Don't be downhearted, Pryme; you stick to her, and it will all come right; and look here, if they won't ask you to Shadonake, I ask you to Kynaston; drop me a line, and come whenever you like as soon as you get home."
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