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There, too, with a timely word he had gained a wealthy and good wife. He had now sent Nevil to do the same. This astute gentleman had caught at the idea of a ride of the young couple to the downs with his customary alacrity of perception as being the very best arrangement for hurrying them to the point. At Steynham Nevil was sure to be howling all day over his tumbled joss Shrapnel.
Nevil showed that he had gained an acquaintance with the struggles of the neighbouring agricultural poor to live and rear their children. His uncle's table roared at his enumeration of the sickly little beings, consumptive or bandy-legged, within a radius of five miles of Steynham. Action was what he wanted, Everard said.
The colonel coughed, and perhaps exaggerated the premonitory symptoms of a cold. 'Italy, papa, would do you good, said Cecilia. 'It might, said he. 'If we go immediately, papa; to-morrow, early in the morning, before there is a chance of any visitors coming to the house. 'From Bevisham? 'From Steynham. I cannot endure a second persecution. 'But you have a world of packing, my dear.
Letters were pouring upon Steynham from men and women of Romfrey blood and relationship concerning the positive tone of Radicalism in the commander's address. Everard laughed at them. As a practical man, his objection lay against the poor fool's choice of the peccant borough of Bevisham.
She was invited to dine; she refused. She was exceedingly glad to find herself on the high-road again, with a prospect of reaching Steynham that night; for it was important that she should not have to confess a visit to Bevisham now when she had so little of favourable to tell Mr. Everard Romfrey of his chosen nephew.
Romfrey's overtures to Colonel Halkett, he traced them to that scheming woman in the house at Steynham, and he was of opinion that it was a friendly and good thing to do to let the old colonel and Cissy Halkett know Mr. Nevil through a bit of his correspondence.
He had the range of the Steynham estate in his eye, dotted with covers; and after Steynham, Holdesbury, which had never yielded him the same high celebrity, but both lay mapped out for action under the profound calculations of the strategist, ready to show the skill of the field tactician. He could not attend to Nevil.
Before we leave, you must give me a lesson or two in gardening. 'Dr. Shrapnel Mr. Romfrey! said Rosamund half audibly under the oppression of the more she saw than what she said. The colonel talked of her renown in landscape-gardening. He added casually: 'They met the other day. 'By accident? 'By chance, I suppose. Shrapnel defends one of your Steynham poaching vermin. 'Mr.
He had the range of the Steynham estate in his eye, dotted with covers; and after Steynham, Holdesbury, which had never yielded him the same high celebrity, but both lay mapped out for action under the profound calculations of the strategist, ready to show the skill of the field tactician. He could not attend to Nevil.
'It is at Steynham. Rosamund primmed her lips at the success of her probing touch; but she was unaware of the chief reason for his doting on those fair locks, and how they coloured his imagination since the day of the drive into Bevisham. 'Now leave me, my dear Nevil, she said. 'Lord Romfrey will soon be here, and it is as well for the moment that you should not meet him, if it can be avoided.
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