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The carriage is at the door." With this she retired, and Sir Charles's valet entered the room soon after to help him dress. "Where am I, James?" "Miss Somerset's house, Sir Charles." "Then get me out of it directly." "Yes, Sir Charles. The carriage is at the door." "Who told you to come, James?" "Miss Somerset, Sir Charles." "That is odd." "Yes, Sir Charles."
The same thing happened at Oxford. The quadrangle of one College was entirely covered 'with a thick bed of torn books and manuscripts. The rioters in the Protector Somerset's time broke into the 'Aungerville Library, as De Bury's collection was called, and burnt all the books.
But when the Queen gave her aid in Somerset's overthrow she warned Archbishop Abbot that it was only the investiture of a new favourite with Somerset's power. And a new favourite was already on the scene. It had only been possible indeed to overthrow the Earl by bringing a fresh face into the court.
Vanderbilt. Yvette has offered to teach me French, so I guess I won't go to Somerset's wedding, unless O scares me out of the country. I got my $2,000 check and have paid all my debts. They were not a third as much as I thought they were, so that's all right. Do come over mother, as soon as you can and we will meet at Jersey City, and have a nice lunch and a good talk.
'We can examine the plans at leisure; for if the placid Mrs. Goodman, who is the only one at home, sees the light, she will only think it is Somerset still at work. Dare uncovered the drawings, and young Somerset's brain-work for the last six weeks lay under their eyes.
Jeremy did not mean to be disobedient, but after that glimpse of Britannia he knew that he would go. It had, at first, been thought advisable that Jeremy should not go to Mr. Somerset's during Fair Week. Perhaps Mr. Somerset could come to the Coles'. No, he was very sorry. He must be in his rooms at that particular hour in case parishioners should need his advice or assistance.
While the malignant tongues had been playing havoc with Somerset's fame in the ears of Paula and her companion, the young man himself was proceeding partly by rail, partly on foot, below and amid the olive-clad hills, vineyards, carob groves, and lemon gardens of the Mediterranean shores.
When the scenery was disclosed and the King of Navarre appeared, what was Somerset's surprise to find that, though the part was the part taken by De Stancy on the previous night, the voice was that of Mr. Mild; to him, at the appointed season, entered the Princess, namely, Miss Barbara Bell.
These proceeded instantly to take possession of the house; with their own hands, and firmly rejecting Somerset's assistance, they carried in the various crates and boxes; with their own hands dismounted and transferred to the back drawing-room the bed in which the tenant was to sleep; and it was not until the bustle of arrival had subsided, and the arrangements were complete, that there descended, from the third of the three vehicles, a gentleman of great stature and broad shoulders, leaning on the shoulder of a woman in a widow's dress, and himself covered by a long cloak and muffled in a coloured comforter.
'There's no chance for me. The castle now arose before them, endowed by the rayless shade with a more massive majesty than either sunlight or moonlight could impart; and Havill sighed again as he thought of what he was losing by Somerset's rivalry. 'Well, what was the use of coming here? he asked. 'I thought it might suggest something some way of seeing the design.
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