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'What's his name? said Harry, in blunt perplexity. The Countess repeated his name, which in her pronunciation was 'Hawington, adding, 'That was my brother. I am his sister. Have you heard of the Countess de Saldar? 'Countess! muttered Harry. 'Dash it! here's a mistake. She continued, with elegant fan-like motion of her gloved fingers: 'They say there is a likeness between us.
The latter gentleman was still a pensioner, flying about town with the Countess de Saldar, in deadly fear lest that fascinating lady should discover the seat of his fortune; happy, notwithstanding. In the mirror of Evan's little world, he beheld the great one from which he was banished. Now the dusk of a winter's afternoon was closing over London, when a carriage drew up in front of Mr.
Now the two Generals Rose Jocelyn and the Countess de Saldar had brought matters to this pass; and from the two tactical extremes: the former by openness and dash; the latter by subtlety, and her own interpretations of the means extended to her by Providence. I will not be so bold as to state which of the two I think right. Good and evil work together in this world.
And the dreadful sequel to the story the Countess could not tell: preferring ingeniously to throw a tragic veil over it. Miss Carrington went early to bed that night. The courage that mounteth with occasion was eminently the attribute of the Countess de Saldar. Besides, there was the pic-nic. The Countess had one dress she had not yet appeared in, and it was for the picnic she kept it.
It struck the eye of the Countess de Saldar that Olympus would be a fitting throne for her, and a point whence her shafts might fly without fear of a return. Like another illustrious General at Salamanca, she directed a detachment to take possession of the height.
George Uplift; and then the terrors of his presence at Beckley Court came upon her, and the fact that she had not for the last ten minutes been the serene Countess de Saldar; and she quite hated Andrew, for vulgarity in others evoked vulgarity in her, which was the reason why she ranked vulgarity as the chief of the deadly sins.
Our comedy opens with his return from Portugal, in company with Miss Rose, the heiress; the Honourable Melville Jocelyn, the diplomate; and the Count and Countess de Saldar, refugees out of that explosive little kingdom.
'And you think a Harrington would confess he wanted money! was her scornful exclamation. 'Evan would walk he would die rather. It was treating him like a mendicant. Andrew had to shrink in his brewer's skin. By some fatality all who were doomed to sit and listen to the Countess de Saldar, were sure to be behindhand in an appointment.
At his age, and to ladies of Miss Carrington's age, men unhappily do not plunge head-foremost, or Miss Carrington would have had him long before. But he was at least in for it half a leg; and a desperate maiden, on the criminal side of thirty, may make much of that. Previous to the visit of the Countess de Saldar, Mr.
She has seen her brother pointed out unmistakeably as the tailor-fellow. There is yet time to cast him off or fly with him. Is it her extraordinary heroism impelling her onward, or infatuated rashness? or is it her mere animal love of conflict? The Countess de Saldar, like other adventurers, has her star. They who possess nothing on earth, have a right to claim a portion of the heavens.
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