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I hope, Madam, it will not displease you if I were. I might refer you for an answer to your father. Mr. Solmes has reasons for preferring you And I have reasons, Madam, for disliking him. And why I am This quickness upon me, interrupted my mother, is not to be borne! I am gone, and your father comes, if I can do no good with you. O Madam, I would rather die, than
"I was looking forward to the old lady giving me a snack of breakfast.... But don't you mind me! I'll do all right. I got a bit of bread coming along from Gridgport.... Ah! Bridgport I should have said." For he had begun to say Grantley. Even if Mrs. Solmes had not been on the point of offering rest and refreshment, this disclaimer of the need of it would have suggested that she should do so.
Must it not shew, that there is something implacable, as well as highly unpolite in his temper? And what creature can think of marrying so as to be out of all hopes ever to be well with her own nearest and tenderest relations? But here, having tired myself, and I dare say you, I will lay down my pen. Mr. Solmes is almost continually here: so is my aunt Hervey: so are my two uncles.
But Talmash's friends judiciously interfered. "I have," said one of them, "a true regard for that gentleman; and I implore you not to do him an injury under the notion of doing him a kindness. Consider that you are usurping what is peculiarly the King's prerogative. You are turning officers out and putting officers in." The debate ended without any vote of censure on Solmes.
With these, I shall enclose one from my brother to me, on occasion of mine to Mr. Solmes. I did think that it was possible to discourage the man from proceeding; and if I could have done that, it would have answered all my wishes. It was worth the trial. But you'll see nothing will do. My brother has taken his measures too securely.
Solmes should do: they had told me so before: they should not be at rest till it was done; for they knew what an interest Lovelace had in my heart: I had as good as owned it in my letters to my uncles, and brother and sister, although I had most disingenuously declared otherwise to my mother.
Hast thou not seen, in the above, how contemptibly she treats me? What have I not suffered for her, and even from her! Ought I to bear being told, that she will despise me, if I value myself above that odious Solmes? Then she cuts me short in all my ardours. To vow fidelity, is by a cursed turn upon me, to shew, that there is reason, in my own opinion, for doubt of it.
If it be proper for me to hear it, Madam It is, eagerly interrupted she, very proper. Has what he has said of me, Madam, convinced you of Mr. Lovelace's baseness? It has, my dear: and that you ought to abhor him for it. Then, dear Madam, be pleased to let me hear it from your mouth: there is no need that I should see Mr. Solmes, when it will have double the weight from you.
He knows all that passes here, and is excessively uneasy upon what he hears, and solicits me to engage my honour to him never to have Mr. Solmes. I think I can safely promise him that. "I am now confined to my room; my maid has been taken away from me. In answer to my sincere declaration, that I would gladly compound to live single, my father said angrily that my proposal was an artifice.
My plain-dealing with Mr. Lovelace, on seeing him again, and the free dislike I expressed to his ways, his manners, and his contrivances, as well as to his speeches, have obliged him to recollect himself a little. He will have it, that the menaces which he threw out just now against my brother and Mr. Solmes, are only the effect of an unmeaning pleasantry.
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