Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 31, 2025
"It is well for us that we don't live on their smiles and curtsies. They went off in the Marchioness of Twickenham's superb equipage. I had a full view of her as she drew up the glass, and a more melancholy countenance than hers I have seldom seen. Lord Oldborough hoped my father was well but never mentioned Godfrey.
The rest of his brother officers were not even to know that he was married. His yacht was lying in a strip of moonlight near Sir Twickenham's companion yawl. He gave one glance at it as at a history finished, and sent up his name to Lady Charlotte. "Ah! you haven't brought the good old dame with you?" she said, rising to meet him. "I thought it better not to see her to-night."
Lady Gosstre had once told her that the point of Sir Twickenham's private character was his susceptibility to ridicule. Her ladyship had at the same time complimented his discernment in conjunction with Cornelia. "Yes," Adela now thought; "but if my sister shows that she is not so wise as she looks!" Cornelia's figure disappeared under the foliage bordering Besworth Lawn.
He made no allowance for the weakness of her sex, for the difficulties surrounding her, for the consideration due to Sir Twickenham's pride, and to her father's ill-health. She half-protested to herself that he expected from her the mechanical correctness of a machine, and overlooked the fact that she was human. It was a grave comment on her ambition to be an 'ideal.
She was wrong to base her whole reply upon the little sentence of reproach, but self-justification was necessary to her spirit. Indeed, an involuntary comparison of her two suitors was forced on her, and, dry as was Sir Twickenham's mind, she could not but acknowledge that he had behaved with an extraordinary courtesy, amounting to chivalry, in his suit.
"Nine-tenths of us to no very good purpose," the baronet appended. She rejoined: "If it were but a fraction, the good done would survive." "And be more honourable to do, perhaps," he ejaculated. "The consolation should be great." "And is somehow small," said she; and they laughed softly. At this stage, Adela was 'an exceedingly interesting young person' in Sir Twickenham's mental register.
The rest of his brother officers were not even to know that he was married. His yacht was lying in a strip of moonlight near Sir Twickenham's companion yawl. He gave one glance at it as at a history finished, and sent up his name to Lady Charlotte. "Ah! you haven't brought the good old dame with you?" she said, rising to meet him. "I thought it better not to see her to-night."
This game had succeeded, when it had been played at the time of the Marchioness of Twickenham's marriage. Mr. Falconer was particularly anxious now to please Lord Oldborough, for he was fully aware that he had lost ground with his patron, and that his sons had all in different ways given his lordship cause of dissatisfaction.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking