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I followed the kind-hearted man, but I wished that the liquid depth of the agent's blue eyes had a proper parallel upon the estate which he had imposed upon me. I returned as full of wrath as my pail was of water, when, across the fence, I saw Sophronia's face, so suffused with tender exaltation, that admiration speedily banished ill nature.
"I don't believe I've got the key with me," said the agent; "but perhaps we can get in through one of the windows." The agent tied his horse and disappeared behind the house. Again Sophronia's arm encircled me, and she murmured: "Oh, Pierre, what bliss!" "It's a good way from the station, pet," I ventured to remark.
However, here it is, I am thankful to say, and of use at last, and you'll sell it, dear Sophronia, and buy things with it. 'Give it to me, said Mr Boffin, gently taking it. 'I'll see that it's properly disposed of. 'Oh! are you such a friend of Sophronia's, Mr Boffin? cried Georgiana. 'Oh, how good of you! Oh, my gracious! there was something else, and it's gone out of my head!
Sophronia was by my side; but, instead of glorying with me in meeting the storm-king in his home, she complained bitterly of the rain. The unaccountable absence of her constitutional romanticism provoked me, and I remonstrated so earnestly, that the effort roused me to wakefulness. But Sophronia's complaining continued.
How much nobler is the Contemplation of Beauty heighten'd by Virtue, and commanding our Esteem and Love, while it draws our Observation? How faint and spiritless are the Charms of a Coquet, when compar'd with the real Loveliness of Sophronia's Innocence, Piety, good Humour and Truth; Virtues which add a new Softness to her Sex, and even beautify her Beauty!
I lit a candle, and examined the ceiling; directly over Sophronia's head there was a heavy blotch, from the centre of which the water was dropping. "Another result of taking that liquid blue-eyed agent's word," I growled, hastily moving the bed and its occupant, and setting the basin on the floor to catch the water and save the carpet.
Mattie, whose fingers were extremely clever, had offered to do the work of copying it, while Patty was to pay for the silks, linen, etc. Then, jointly, they were to give it to Miss Kate for an engagement present. In case the servant should be out Sallie had given Patty her latch key. "This is Sophronia's day out, and mother is going to a bridge party. I have an engagement, so here's the key.
Then I grew angry, and remarked, in Sophronia's hearing, that we were a couple of fools, to take a house without first proving whether the agent had told the truth. But Sophronia, who is a consistent optimist, rebuked me for my want of faith in the agent. "Pierre," said she, "it is unmanly to charge a fellow-man with falsehood upon the word of a menial.
Gisippus was held in despite both by his own kindred and those of Sophronia and every one declared him worthy not only of blame, but of severe chastisement; whilst he, on the contrary, avouched himself to have done an honourable thing and one for which thanks should be rendered him by Sophronia's kinsfolk, having married her to a better than himself.
Sophronia's hair did not kink and curl as Katharine's did, but it was "a hunderd times as long and a great deal prettier colored." Kate had said so herself, yet here was she who was so generously admiring, almost covetous, calmly unobservant of braid, ribbon, and all.
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