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The Honourable Mr Listless, by two turns of his body, rolled first off the sofa and then under it. The Reverend Mr Larynx leaped up and fled with so much precipitation, that he overturned the table on the foot of Mr Glowry. Mr Glowry roared with pain hi the ear of Mr Toobad.
There are more ways than one of breaking in obstinate girls. They parted for the night with the expression of opposite resolutions, and in the morning the young lady's chamber was found empty, and what was become of her Mr Toobad had no clue to conjecture.
Marionetta, seeing Scythrop grasping the hand of a strange beauty, fainted away in the arms of her aunt. Scythrop flew to her assistance; and Stella with redoubled anger sprang towards the door, but was intercepted in her intended flight by being caught in the arms of Mr Toobad, who exclaimed 'Celinda! 'Papa! said the young lady disconsolately.
Scythrop was equidistant from both of them, central and motionless, like Mahomet's coffin. 'Mr Glowry, said Mr Toobad, 'can you tell by what means my daughter came here? 'I know no more, said Mr Glowry, 'than the Great Mogul. 'Mr Scythrop, said Mr Toobad, 'how came my daughter here? 'I did not know, sir, that the lady was your daughter. 'But how came she here?
Mr Toobad said he saw the devil was determined to interfere with all his projects, but he was resolved on his own part, not to have on his conscience the crime of passive obedience and non-resistance to Lucifer, and therefore she should marry the person he had chosen for her. Miss Toobad replied, tres posement, she assuredly would not.
He continued to investigate town and country in search of her; visiting and revisiting Nightmare Abbey at intervals, to consult with his friend, Mr Glowry. Mr Glowry agreed with Mr Toobad that this was a very flagrant instance of filial disobedience and rebellion; and Mr Toobad declared, that when he discovered the fugitive, she should find that 'the devil was come unto her, having great wrath.
'Celinda, Celinda, said Mr Toobad, 'you most assuredly shall. 'Have I not a fortune in my own right, sir? said Celinda. 'The more is the pity, said Mr Toobad: 'but I can find means, miss; I can find means.
That may do very well in a German tragedy; and the Great Mogul might have found it very feasible in his lodgings at Kensington; but it will not do in Lincolnshire. Will you have Miss Toobad? 'Yes. 'And renounce Marionetta? 'No. 'But you must renounce one. 'I cannot. 'And you cannot have both. What is to be done? 'I must shoot myself. 'Don't talk so, Scythrop. Be rational, my dear Scythrop.
I hope, my dear cousin, that you will not be angry with me, but that you will always think of me as a sincere friend, who will always feel interested in your welfare; I am sure you love Miss Toobad much better than me, and I wish you much happiness with her. Mr Listless assures me that people do not kill themselves for love now-a-days, though it is still the fashion to talk about it.
He condoled on the occasion with Mr Toobad; who said, that he had been too long accustomed to the intermeddling of the devil in all his affairs, to be astonished at this new trace of his cloven claw; but that he hoped to outwit him yet, for he was sure there could be no comparison between his daughter and Marionetta in the mind of any one who had a proper perception of the fact, that, the world being a great theatre of evil, seriousness and solemnity are the characteristics of wisdom, and laughter and merriment make a human being no better than a baboon.
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