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Romfrey, proving how good it is for us to bow to despotic authority, if only we will bring ourselves unquestioningly to accept the previous deeds of the directing hand.
Gentlemen of an unpractised imaginative capacity cannot vision for themselves exactly what they would, being unable to exercise authority over the proportions and the hues of the objects they conceive, which are very much at the mercy of their sportive caprices; and the state of mind of Mr. Romfrey is not to be judged by his ridiculous view of the pair.
And indeed soon afterward he was telling her that there on those downs, in full view of Steynham, he and his wife had first joined hands. Beauchamp sat silent. Mr. Romfrey despatched orders to the stables, and Rosamund to the kitchen. Cecilia was rather dismayed by the formal preparations for the ride. She declined the early cup of coffee. Mr. Romfrey begged her to take it.
Heroes we would have. It happens in war as in wit, that all the birds of wonder fly to a flaring reputation. He that has done one wild thing must necessarily have done the other; so Nevil found himself standing in the thick of a fame that blew rank eulogies on him for acts he had not performed. The Earl of Romfrey forwarded hampers and a letter of praise.
Beauchamp was thin, pale, and quiet; but the sight of him standing and conversing after that scene of the skinny creature struggling with bareribbed obstruction on the bed, was an example of constitutional vigour and a compliment to the family very gratifying to Lord Romfrey. Excepting by Cecilia, the earl was coldly received.
He was obliged to wait, and see, and help me to entertain, her brother and her husband. 'Why, ma'am? But I have no objection to his making the marquis a happy husband. 'He has done what few men would have done, that she may be a self- respecting wife. 'The parson's in that fellow! Lord Romfrey exclaimed. 'Now I have the story.
Rosamund begged that she might hear what Nevil had first said on his arrival. Cecilia related that they had seen him walking swiftly across the park, and that Mr. Romfrey had hailed him, and held his hand out; and that Captain Beauchamp had overlooked it, saying he feared Mr. Romfrey's work was complete. He had taken her father's hand and hers and his touch was like ice. 'His worship of that Dr.
'But you can't surely expect me to force my daughter's inclinations, my dear Romfrey? 'Cecilia loves the fellow! 'She is engaged to Mr. Tuckham. 'I'll see the man Tuckham. 'Really, my dear lord! 'Play at it, Halkett, play at it! Tide us over this! Talk to her: hint it and nod it. We have to round November. I could strangle the world till that month's past.
Her eternal brooding over Nevil was the cause of these mental vagaries. Lord Romfrey was for postponing the appointed discussion in the morning after breakfast. He pleaded business engagements. 'None so urgent as this of mine, said Rosamund. 'But we have excellent news of Nevil: you have Gannet's word for it, he argued. 'There's really nothing to distress you.
He was quite as resolute, too, about that slight matter of the Jersey bull. He had the bull in Bevisham, and would not give him up without the sign manual of Lord Romfrey to an agreement to resign him over to the American Quaker gentleman, after a certain term.
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