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She merely stated the fact that she had met the colonel and Mr. Blackburn Tuckham driving on the outskirts of the town, and had promised to bring Cecilia the final numbers of the poll. Without naming them, she unrolled the greater business in her mind.
She was extremely uncharitable: she extended her ungenerous criticism to the institution of the footman: England, and the English, were lashed. 'These people are caricatures, Tuckham said, in apology for poor England burlesqued abroad. 'You must not generalize on them. Footmen are footmen all the world over. The cardinals have a fine set of footmen. 'They are at home.
Tuckham had a round head, square flat forehead, and ruddy face; he stood as if his feet claimed the earth under them for his own, with a certain shortness of leg that detracted from the majesty of his resemblance to our Eighth Harry, but increased his air of solidity; and he was authoritative in speaking. 'Let me set you right, sir, he said sometimes to Colonel Halkett, and that was his modesty.
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.
I called here six times, and walked and talked with you. Cecilia set her face to the garden. Her heart had entered on a course of heavy thumping, like a sapper in the mine. Pain was not unwelcome to her, but this threatened weakness. What plain words could she use? If Mr. Tuckham had been away from the house, she would have found it easier to speak of her engagement; she knew not why.
Tuckham let fall that he had just seen Beauchamp. 'Did he thank you for his inheritance? Colonel Halkett inquired. 'Not he! Tuckham replied jovially. Cecilia's eyes, quick to flash, were dropped. The colonel said: 'I suppose you told him nothing of what you had done for him? and said Tuckham: 'Oh no: what anybody else would have done'; and proceeded to recount that he had called at Dr.
He said carelessly of Commander Beauchamp, that he might think himself one. Either the Radical candidate for Bevisham stood self-deceived, or the other supposition. Mr. Tuckham would venture to state that no English gentleman, exempt from an examination by order of the Commissioners of Lunacy, could be sincerely a Radical.
Tuckham at the Yacht Ball, and was vividly mindful of every slight incident leading to and succeeding her lover's abrupt, 'You will dance' which had all passed by her dream-like up to that hour his attempt to forewarn her of the phrases she would deem objectionable in Dr.
He noticed her perturbation, and spoke of it to her father. 'Yes, I'm very miserable about her, the colonel confessed. 'Girls don't see... they can't guess... they have no idea of the right kind of man for them. A man like Blackburn Tuckham, now, a man a father could leave his girl to, with confidence! He works for me like a slave; I can't guess why. He doesn't look as if he were attracted.
Lespel; and, resuming her worldly sagacity, 'I should not like to be in opposition to that young man. She seemed to have a fancy unexpressed regarding Mr. Tuckham.
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