United States or Latvia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"He's going back to Washington and it suited him to have him. I don't quarrel with him for that. I wish I were married to him and back in the States." "You do?" "I do." "You have given it all up about Lord Rufford then?" "No; that's just where it is. I haven't given it up, and I still see trouble upon trouble before me. But I know how it will be. He doesn't mean anything.
"Miss Trefoil," said the lord, "let us have it all out at once. Are you taking Goarly's part?" "Taking Goarly's part!" ejaculated the Major. Arabella affected to give a little start, as though frightened by the Major's enthusiasm. "For heaven's. sake let us know our foes," continued Lord Rufford. "You see the effect such an announcement had upon Major Caneback.
'Miss Arabella Trefoil, will you do me the honour to become my wife? Do you think that Lord Rufford would ask the question in that way?" "It is a very good way." "Any way is a good way that answers the purpose. He has proposed, and I mean to make him stick to it" "You doubt then?" "Mamma, you are so silly!
Green to help her. Mrs. Green was a kind old woman, who had lived much in the world, and would wish to see much of it still, had age allowed her. Arabella Trefoil was at any rate the niece of a Duke, and the Duke, in this affair with Lord Rufford, had taken his niece's part. She opened her house and as much of her heart as was left to Arabella, and was ready to mourn with her over the wicked lord.
By that expression she had meant a metaphorical throwing of herself, and not such a flesh and blood embracing as she had permitted to the lord in the little room at Rufford. Then she suggested that he should appeal again to her father.
And, no doubt, she had her share of the sex instinct that makes women be intolerably cruel to the beloved person. Anyhow, I don't know whether, at this point, Nancy Rufford loved Edward Ashburnham. I don't know whether she even loved him when, on getting, at Aden, the news of his suicide she went mad. Because that may just as well have been for the sake of Leonora as for the sake of Edward.
I don't suppose you would care to go." "Go where?" "It is from Lord Rufford, for Monday." "From Lord Rufford!" "It would break up all your plans and your mother's, and would probably be a great bore." Then she did read the letter, very carefully and very slowly, weighing every word of it as she read it. Did it mean more than it said?
I certainly wouldn't have had you here had I thought that there would be anything of the kind." "It is going to be all right," said Arabella laughing. According to her Grace's view of things it was not and could not be made "all right." It would not have been all right were the girl to become Lady Rufford to-morrow.
Though he had once or twice almost fancied that he would like to proclaim aloud that the girl was engaged to him, yet he did not like to have the fact pumped out of him. And if she were such a girl as she now appeared to be, might it not be better for him to let her go? Surely her conduct here at Rufford Hall was opportunity enough. No doubt she was handsome.
Lidgerwood was gripping the gate and trying to steady himself. A chill, like a violent attack of ague, was shaking him to the bone. "No," he returned, mastering the chattering teeth by the supremest effort of will. "Thanks to you, I guess I'm not hurt. Who w-was the man?" "It was Rufford. He followed you from the Crow's Nest. Williams saw him and put me on, so I followed him." "Williams?
Word Of The Day