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As for the dower, she could not consent to accept less than four hundred or five hundred, if no house was to be provided. She thought that seven hundred and fifty would be little enough if there were no children, as in that case there was no heir for whom Mr. Prosper was especially anxious. But as there probably would be children, Miss Thoroughbung thought that this was a matter to which Mr.
And when I had been living for twenty years with a female companion, who hasn't sixpence in the world to buy a rag with but what she gets from me, was it to be expected that I should turn her out for any man?" "An annuity might have been arranged, Miss Thoroughbung." "Bother an annuity! That's all you think about feelings!
He found himself getting deeper and deeper into the quagmire, till he began to doubt whether he should be able to extricate himself unmarried if he were anxious to do so. And all the while there came affectionate little notes from Miss Thoroughbung asking after his health, and recommending him what to take, till he entertained serious thoughts of going to Cairo for the winter. Then Mr.
He is not too old yet to be a second Priam, and have his curtains drawn the other way. That's his little game, is it?" "There's a sort of rumor about, that it is possible." "And who is the lady?" "You may be sure there will be no lack of a lady if he sets his mind upon it. I was turning it over in my mind, and I thought of Matilda Thoroughbung." "Joshua's aunt!"
All the field declared that they had regarded it as impossible that their master should move so fast. And Dillon, and the whips, and Thoroughbung, and Harry Annesley, with half a dozen others, kept pace with him. They would not sit there and see their master outmanoeuvred by any lack of readiness on their part.
While the funeral dirge was pealing sadly at Tretton, the joyful marriage-bells were ringing both at Buntingford and Buston. Joe Thoroughbung, dressed all in his best, was about to carry off Molly Annesley to Rome previous to settling down to a comfortable life of hunting and brewing in his native town. Miss Thoroughbung sent her compliments to Mrs. Annesley. Would her brother be there?
They got to the covert first, and there, with their whips drawn, were ready to receive the second pack. Then one hound went in without an order; but for their own hounds they did not care. They might find a fox and go after him, and nobody would follow them. The business here at the covert-side was more important and more attractive. Then it was that Mr. Thoroughbung nearly fell into danger.
Miss Tickle was an estimable lady living as companion to Miss Thoroughbung. "I don't know how they may manage; but it has to be thought of, Harry. We only know that your uncle has been twice to Buntingford." "The lady is fifty, at any rate." "The lady is barely forty. She gives out that she is thirty-six. And he could settle a jointure on her which would leave the property not worth having."
His mother blessed him, but said nothing about the finest lady, who at that moment she believed to be the future bride of Mr. Joshua Thoroughbung. "And when I shall tell my uncle that it is so, what will he say to me? Will he have the face then to tell me that I am to be cut out of Buston? I doubt whether he will have the courage." "He has thought of that, Harry." "How thought of it, mother?"
A despatched crab it was; and when she would not eat it I knew there was something wrong." "Nonsense! what a fuss you make. Well, Mr. Prosper, have you seen your nephew yet?" "No, Miss Thoroughbung; nor do I intend to see him. The young man has disgraced himself." "Dear, dear; how sad!" "Young men do disgrace themselves, I fear, very often," said Miss Tickle.
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