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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.
'I think you would like to listen to him. 'Yes, my fault is not listening enough, said Mr. Tuckham. He was capable of receiving correction. Her father told her he was indebted to Mr. Tuckham past payment in coin, for services rendered by him on a trying occasion among the miners in Wales during the first spring month.
'He relies on the views he delivers in public, rather than on writing to persuade; that was my meaning, papa. 'Very well, said the colonel, not caring to show his anxiety. Mr. Tuckham dined with them frequently in London. This gentleman betrayed his accomplishments one by one.
The gales of August mattered frightfully to poor Blackburn Tuckham, who was to be dropped at a town in South Wales, and descended greenish to his cabin as soon as they had crashed on the first wall-waves of the chalk-race, a throw beyond the peaked cliffs edged with cormorants, and were really tasting sea. Cecilia reclined on deck, wrapped in shawl and waterproof.
Beauchamp presented himself rather late in the afternoon, when Mr. Austin and Blackburn Tuckham were sipping tea in Cecilia's boudoir with that lady, and a cousin of her sex, by whom she was led to notice a faint discoloration over one of his eyes, that was, considering whence it came, repulsive to compassion. A blow at a Radical meeting! He spoke of Dr.
'He relies on the views he delivers in public, rather than on writing to persuade; that was my meaning, papa. 'Very well, said the colonel, not caring to show his anxiety. Mr. Tuckham dined with them frequently in London. This gentleman betrayed his accomplishments one by one.
Tuckham, 'casually, meaning no harm, and not supposing I was throwing a lighted match on powder, to mention the word Providence. I found myself immediately confronted by Shrapnel overtopped, I should say.
Tuckham come frequently. Captain Beauchamp spoke to her yesterday of her marriage. 'Madame de R. leaves us to-morrow.
Upon the conclusion of her term of exile Cecilia would gladly have remained in Italy another month. An appointment of her father's with Mr. Tuckham at Mount Laurels on a particular day she considered as of no consequence whatever, and she said so, in response to a meaningless nod. But Mr. Austin was obliged to return to work.
I call property funded good sense. I would give it every privilege. If we are to speak of patriotism, I say the possession of property guarantees it. I maintain that the lead of men of property is in most cases sure to be the safe one. 'I think so, Colonel Halkett interposed, and he spoke as a man of property. Mr. Tuckham grew fervent in his allusions to our wealth and our commerce.
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