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They were alone, and Adriana was hanging on her neck and weeping. "We were so happy," she murmured. "And are so happy, and will be," said Myra. "I feel I shall never be happy again," sighed Adriana. "You deserve to be the happiest of human beings, and you will be." "Never, never!" Lady Roehampton could say no more; she pressed her friend to her heart, and left the room in silence.
"I am told she is utterly overwhelmed." "She was devoted to him; it was the happiest union I ever knew; but Lady Roehampton is not the woman to be utterly overwhelmed. She has too imperial a spirit for that." "It is a great misfortune," said the prime minister. "We have not been lucky since we took the reins." "Well, there is no use in deploring.
It was after midnight when at length he slipped through the Robin Hood Gate, passed up Priory Lane, and walked rapidly by the shuttered houses of Roehampton. And, looking a moment over Putney Bridge; he saw the reflections of the stars in the muddy, dawdling Thames. Nothing anywhere was thick enough to hide them. The Net of Stars, being in his heart, was everywhere.
Lord Roehampton, though an Englishman, was an Irish peer, and was resolved to remain so, for he fully appreciated the position, which united social distinction with the power of a seat in the House of Commons. He was a very ambitious, and, as it was thought, worldly man, deemed even by many to be unscrupulous, and yet he was romantic.
As Lord Roehampton wrote to me this morning, 'Our royal marriage will be much more popular than the Anti-Corn-Law League." The royal marriage was very popular; but, unfortunately, it reflected no splendour on the ministry. The world blessed the queen and cheered the prince, but shook its head at the government.
At seventy, he would breakfast at eight in Hereford Square, walk to Roehampton and pick up Mr. Watts-Dunton or Mr. At another "Bald-faced Hind," above Fairlop, he used to see the Gypsies, for it was their trysting place.
"Well, I have not met with so much kindness in this world as to become insensible to it." "You are too young to be melancholy," said Lady Montfort; "are you older than Lady Roehampton?" "We are twins." "Twins! and wonderfully like too! Is it not thought so?" "I have sometimes heard it mentioned."
He was frequently her guest, and being himself the master of a splendid establishment, he could offer her a hospitality which every one appreciated. Lord Roehampton was peculiarly his political chief, and they had always been socially intimate.
I have, what they call, restored it, and upon my word, except the new hall of the Clothworkers' Company, where I dined the other day, I do not know anything of the kind that is prettier." "The dear old hall!" murmured Lady Roehampton. In time, though no one mentioned it, everybody thought that if an alliance ultimately took place between Lady Roehampton and Mr.
She is Countess of Beaumaris," added Myra, dwelling slowly and with some unction on the title, "and may be a powerful friend to you; and I am Countess of Roehampton, and am your friend, also not quite devoid of power. And there are other countesses, I suspect, on whose good wishes you may rely. If we cannot shape your destiny, there is no such thing as witchcraft.
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