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"Oh!" said Smirke and his beautiful cambric shirt front and glistening studs heaved with the emotion which agitated his gentle and suffering bosom. "Oh what a sigh!" Pen cried, growing very hilarious; "fill, my boy, and drink the toast, you can't refuse a toast, no gentleman refuses a toast. Here's her health, and good luck to you, and may she soon be Mrs. Smirke." "Do you say so?"
Smirke, with a faint laugh, only said, "Well, well, don't call me out, Arthur, for you know I can't fight;" but by this compromise the wretched curate was put more than ever into the power of his pupil, and the Greek and mathematics suffered correspondingly.
"Come in, Pen," she said, "there's somebody come; uncle Arthur's come." "He is, is he?" said Pen, and she felt him grasp her little hand. He looked round at Smirke with uncommon fierceness, as much as to say, I am ready for him or any man. Mr. Smirke cast up his eyes as usual and heaved a gentle sigh.
It then became necessary to pull down Montague House and build a Museum worthy of the treasures to be enshrined. Sir Robert Smirke was the architect, and the present massive edifice is from his designs. The buildings cost more than £800,000. As this is no guide-book, no attempt is made to classify the departments of the Museum or to indicate its riches.
Lightfoot, his man, had passed over to my Lady's service; and, as Pen was informed in a letter from Mr. Smirke, who performed the ceremony, had executed his prudent intention of marrying Mrs. Bonner, my Lady's woman, who, in her mature years, was stricken with the charms of the youth, and endowed him with her savings and her mature person.
If he spoke and she refused him, it was awful to think that the gate of Fairoaks might be shut upon him for ever and within that door lay all the world for Mr. Smirke. Thus, oh friendly readers, we see how every man in the world has his own private griefs and business, by which he is more cast down or occupied than by the affairs or sorrows of any other person. While Mrs.
And as there was to be rather a good dinner that day, she invited Mr. Smirke to partake of it; and we may be sure that he was too happy to accept such a delightful summons. Eased, by the above report, of all her former doubts and misgivings regarding the Curate, Helen was exceedingly kind and gracious to Mr.
"Did you find that any objection?" cried Smirke piteously, and alluding, of course, to the elderly subject of Pen's own passion. The lad felt the hint, and blushed quite red. "The cases are not similar, Smirke," he said, "and the allusion might have been spared. A man may forget his own rank and elevate any woman to it: but allow me to say our positions are very different."
Ah, sir a distinct universe walks about under your hat and under mine all things in nature are different to each the woman we look at has not the same features, the dish we eat from has not the same taste to the one and the other you and I are but a pair of infinite isolations, with some fellow-islands a little more or less near to us. Let us return, however, to the solitary Smirke.
Let Smirke be called in, and let us be married out of hand; and with all my heart I purpose to keep my vow, and to cherish you through life, and to be a true and a loving husband to you." From the fly Arthur sprang out then to the hall-door, where he was met by a domestic whom he did not know.
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