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She has been and refused the Earl of Tadcaster." "Refused him what! has that little monkey had the audacity?" "The condescension, you mean. Yes." "And she has refused him?" "And twenty thousand a year." "What immorality!" "Worse. What absurdity!" "How is it to be accounted for? Is it the old story?
He watched her timidly, to see how she would take that proposition. She said, with the utmost simplicity, "I'm very glad of it." Then he produced his oracles; and she devoured them. Such precepts to Tadcaster as she could apply to her own case she instantly noted in her memory, and they became her law from that moment.
Tadcaster was wonderfully improved: he had grown six inches out at sea, and though still short, was not diminutive; he was a small Apollo, a model of symmetry, and had an engaging, girlish beauty, redeemed from downright effeminacy by a golden mustache like silk, and a tanned cheek that became him wonderfully. He seemed dazzled at first by Mrs.
Tadcaster, small and dull, but noble by birth and instinct, had seen the right thing for her to do; and she, of the same breed, and nobler far, had seen it too; and the great soul steadily drew the recoiling heart and quivering body to this fiery trial, this act of humanity to do which was terrible and hard, to shirk it, cowardly and cruel. She reached Gravesend, and drove in a fly to Kent Villa.
He was b. near Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and ed. at Eton and Oxf. Studying law he was called to the Bar in 1837, and afterwards held various high fiscal appointments, becoming in 1869 Commissioner of Customs. In 1834 he pub. Miscellaneous Verses, followed by Two Destinies , Oedipus, King of Thebes , and Return of the Guards . He was elected in 1867 Prof. of Poetry at Oxf.
Little Tadcaster went on board, pasty, dim-eyed, and very subject to fits, because his stomach was constantly overloaded with indigestible trash, and the blood in his brain-vessels was always either galloping or creeping, under the first or second effect of stimulants administered, at first, by thoughtless physicians.
Paul that of London, the city of schism. Ursus, whose philosophy had arms so long that it embraced everything, was a man who appreciated these shades of difference, and his attraction towards London arose, perhaps, from a certain taste of his for St. Paul. The yard of the Tadcaster Inn had taken the fancy of Ursus. It might have been ordered for the Green Box. It was a theatre ready-made.
Leven himself, conceiving the battle utterly lost, in which he was confirmed by the opinion of others then on the place near him, seeing they were fleeing upon all hands toward Tadcaster and Cawood, was persuaded by his attendants to retire and wait his better fortune.
To the devil with both of them. I always hated the creatures! Die, Dea! Oh, I am quite comfortable!" He returned to the Tadcaster Inn, It struck half-past six. It was a little before twilight. Master Nicless stood on his doorstep. He had not succeeded, since the morning, in extinguishing the terror which still showed on his scared face. He perceived Ursus from afar. "Well!" he cried.
Lusignan saw plainly how this would end, unless he interfered. Well, he did not interfere; on the contrary, he was careful to avoid putting his daughter on her guard: he said to himself, "Lord Tadcaster does her good. I'm afraid she would not marry him, if he was to ask her now; but in time she might. She likes him a great deal better than any one else."
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