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You will hear all about it when you get to Parson Twemlow's, for I saw mother going there, afore she had her breakfast, though I was not concernable to let her see me. If the Squire had been home, she would have gone up to Hall first. No, miss, no. I done nothing to be ashamed of; and if you turn back on me, you'll be sorry afterwards."
I have higher stakes to play for. But according to old Twemlow's description, she must be the daughter of that old bear Darling, with whom I shall have to pick a bone some day. Ha! How amusing is that battery to me! How little John Bull knows the nature of French troops! To-morrow we are to have a grand practice-day; and I hope they won't shoot me in my new lodgings.
Twemlow's thoughts about her kith and kindred were rather sad than proud, unless some ignorance was shown about them. "Poor as I am," said Mr. Twemlow, now consulting with her, "and poor as every beneficed clergyman must be, if this war returns, I would rather have lost a hundred pounds than have heard what you tell me, Maria."
Mrs Lammle, on a sofa by a table, invites Mr Twemlow's attention to a book of portraits in her hand. Mr Twemlow takes his station on a settee before her, and Mrs Lammle shows him a portrait. 'You have reason to be surprised, she says softly, 'but I wish you wouldn't look so. Disturbed Twemlow, making an effort not to look so, looks much more so.
He was not used to female beauty which deigned to cast great smiling eyes upon him, for at my Lord Twemlow's table he sat so far below the salt that women looked not his way. This beauty looked at him as if she was amused at the thought of something in her own mind. He wondered tremblingly if she guessed what he came for and knew how her father would receive it.
Ethel perceived vaguely that the forceful man who held her in the hollow of his hand had met more than his match. Over that spectacle she rejoiced like a small child; but at the same time Arthur Twemlow's absolute conviction that the Five Towns was losing ground frightened her, made her feel that life was earnest, and stirred faint longings for the serious way.
At the very first interview with her host she had spoken of Blyth's attachment to his younger daughter, of which the Admiral had heard already from that youthful sailor. And the Admiral had simply said, as in Captain Twemlow's case: "Let us leave them to themselves. I admire the young man. If she likes him, I shall make no objection, when they are old enough, and things are favourable."
'Really, said Twemlow, emphasising still further his seriousness. 'Has she ever been taught? 'Only by a local teacher up here at Hillport, Leonora told him. 'She ought to have lessons from a first-class master. 'Why? asked Stanway abruptly. 'Well, Twemlow said, 'you never know 'You honestly think her voice is worth cultivating? John demanded, impelled to participate in Twemlow's gravity.
At a certain period of my Lord Twemlow's first story, the night he told it, both his Lordship of Dunstanwolde and the then Marquess of Roxholm had made unconscious movements as they heard this had happened when had been described the falling of the mantle of black hair and the little oaths with which Mistress Clorinda had sat on her hunter binding it up and at this point at this other picture of the audacious beauty and her broken glass each man almost started again my Lord Dunstanwolde indeed suddenly rising and taking a step across the hearth.
It seemed to her that she was weighed down by knowledge of the world, whereas gay Millicent, and Rose with her silly examinations.... She plunged again into the actuality of the letter from Paris.... 'I called really to speak to you about my father's estate. Ethel was startled into attention by the sudden careful politeness in Arthur Twemlow's manner and by a quivering in his voice.
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