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Tuckham's water-colour drawings in every clime; scenes of Europe, Asia, and the Americas; and he was to be excused for not caring to look through them. His remark, that they seemed hard and dogged, was not so unjust, she thought, smiling to think of the critic criticized. His wonderment that a young man like his Lancastrian cousin should be 'an unmitigated Tory' was perhaps natural.
Tuckham's excellent qualities if that was indeed the name; and she hastened to recollect how little she had forgotten Mr. Tuckham's generosity to Beauchamp, and confessed to herself it might as well have been forgotten utterly for the thanks he had received. While revolving these ideas she was listening to Mr.
Tuckham to her for a husband, by her father's authority, and with his own warm seconding. He had not dropped her hand: he was very eloquent, a masterly advocate: he pleaded her father's cause; it was not put to her as Mr. Tuckham's: her father had set his heart on this union he was awaiting her decision. 'Is it so urgent? she asked. 'It is urgent. It saves him from an annoyance.
In addition, this rough man over whom she smiled was one of the few that never worried her concerning her hand. There was not a whisper of it in him. He simply loved her father. Cecilia welcomed him to Mount Laurels with grateful gladness. The colonel had hastened Mr. Tuckham's visit in view of the expedition to Rome, and they discoursed of it at the luncheon table. Mr.
'Then bully the feeble and truckle to the strong; consent to be hated till you have to stand your ground. 'Talk! 'It seems to me logical. 'That's the French notion c'est lodgique! Tuckham's pronunciation caused Cecilia to level her eyes at him passingly.
The exceeding pallor of Beauchamp's face haunted her in her room. She heard the controversy proceeding below, and an exclamation of Blackburn Tuckham's: 'Immorality of meat-eating? What nonsense are they up to now? Beauchamp was inaudible, save in a word or two. As usual, he was the solitary minority. But how mournfully changed he was!
Tuckham's disposition to generalize. Beauchamp had the show of hands, and to say with Captain Baskelett, that they were a dirty majority, was beneath Mr. Tuckham's verbal antagonism. He fell into a studious reserve, noting everything, listening to everybody, greatly to Colonel Halkett's admiration of one by nature a talker and a thunderer. The show of hands Mr.
Tuckham's water-colour drawings in every clime; scenes of Europe, Asia, and the Americas; and he was to be excused for not caring to look through them. His remark, that they seemed hard and dogged, was not so unjust, she thought, smiling to think of the critic criticized. His wonderment that a young man like his Lancastrian cousin should be 'an unmitigated Tory' was perhaps natural.
Tuckham's conversation was the nearest approach to it as it were round by Greenland; but it was homeward. She was really grieved to lose him. Business called him to England. 'What business can it be, papa? she inquired: and the colonel replied briefly: 'Ours. Mr. Austin now devoted much of his time to the instruction of her in the ancient life of the Eternal City.
Tuckham's conversation was the nearest approach to it as it were round by Greenland; but it was homeward. She was really grieved to lose him. Business called him to England. 'What business can it be, papa? she inquired: and the colonel replied briefly: 'Ours. Mr. Austin now devoted much of his time to the instruction of her in the ancient life of the Eternal City.
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