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Swancourt's servants have been here they ran in out of the rain when going for a walk and I assure you the state of their bonnets was frightful. 'How's the folks? We've been over to Castle Boterel, and what wi' running and stopping out of the storms, my poor head is beyond everything! fizz, fizz fizz; 'tis frying o' fish from morning to night, said a cracked voice in the doorway at this instant.
The point in Elfride Swancourt's life at which a deeper current may be said to have permanently set in, was one winter afternoon when she found herself standing, in the character of hostess, face to face with a man she had never seen before moreover, looking at him with a Miranda-like curiosity and interest that she had never yet bestowed on a mortal.
We are not in a hurry, dear papa; we don't want in the least to marry now; not until he is richer. Only will you let us be engaged, because I love him so, and he loves me? Mr. Swancourt's feelings were a little touched by this appeal, and he was annoyed that such should be the case. 'Certainly not! he replied.
You escaped me by a few minutes only when we were in London. 'Yes. I found that you had seen Mrs. Swancourt. 'And now reviewer and reviewed are face to face, he added unconcernedly. 'Yes: though the fact of your being a relation of Mrs. Swancourt's takes off the edge of it.
Swancourt's sudden veto on what he had favoured a few hours before; but that he hoped a time would come, and that soon, when his original feelings of pleasure as Mr. Swancourt's guest might be recovered. He expected to find the downstairs rooms wearing the gray and cheerless aspect that early morning gives to everything out of the sun.
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