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She shook hands with him warmly, her face beaming goodwill, and then she kissed her half-sister and Ella, and told Sneyd that she had seen him that morning in the market-place. Mrs Peake and Mrs Lovatt differed remarkably in character and appearance, though this did not prevent them from being passionately attached to one another.
Sneyd was seated at the foot of his bed. "Now, Maria, dip anywhere, read on." I began: "King Corny recovered." Then he said, "I must tell Sneyd the story up to this." And most eloquently, most beautifully did he tell the story. No mortal could ever have guessed that he was an invalid, if they had only heard him speak.
French, Miss French, who has good taste, as she proved by her various compliments to Sneyd; Miss Broadhurst, not my heiress, though she says that, after the publication of the Absentee, people used to turn their heads when she was announced, and ask if that was Miss Edgeworth's Miss Broadhurst! She met Sneyd in Dublin; has been lately at Kilkenny, and admired Mr. Rothe's acting of Othello.
The mare waited patiently outside in the thronged street. After that the pilgrimage to Sneyd was punctuated with ice-creams. They saw the Park, and Ada giggled charmingly her appreciation of its beauty. The conversation throughout consisted chiefly of Ada's teeth. Ellis said he would return by a different route, and he managed to get lost.
'Yes, he said, 'for the summer and the winter too. Somewhere out Sneyd way. 'And leave here? 'Exactly. 'But what about the house, Jack? 'Sell it, if you like, said John lightly. 'Oh, no! I shouldn't like that at all, she replied, nervously but amiably.
They looked just the same: both well-dressed, with veils and parasols like other girls; but I afterwards found that I had been giving all my attention to the youngest, who was not out, and had most excessively offended the eldest. Miss Augusta ought not to have been noticed for the next six months; and Miss Sneyd, I believe, has never forgiven me." "That was bad indeed. Poor Miss Sneyd.
'It was summer We found the drawing-room at Mr. Sneyd's filled by all my former acquaintances and friends, who had, without concert among themselves, assembled as if to witness the meeting of two persons, whose sentiments could scarcely be known even to the parties themselves. 'I have been told that the last person whom I addressed or saw, when I came into the room, was Honora Sneyd.
All was serene, uncrowded, and fresh within the park. We instantly met Sneyd and William, and the two Mr. Foxes.
He and some of his little comrades had got a drum and a flag, and used to go through the manual exercise. It was a pity the letter did not reach the King: he would have been delighted at it. To C. SNEYD EDGEWORTH. LONDON, May 1, 1813. Please to take this in small doses, but not fasting. Let us go back, if you please, to Cambridge. Thursday morning we went to breakfast with Mr. Smedley.
Looked upon thus, death might have been welcomed by him as a benefit rather than dreaded as a calamity, and the words applied by Cicero to the fate of Crassus be repeated with fresh significancy, "Mors dortata quam vita erepta." The same year that carries on its records the date of André's fall witnessed the death of a second Honora Edgeworth, the only surviving daughter of Honora Sneyd.
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