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"Here, then, my lord," answered Clarence; "you have insulted me grossly before Lady Westborough and your affianced bride, and before them my vindication and answer should be given." "You are right," said Lord Ulswater; "be it here, at the hour of twelve." Clarence bowed his assent and withdrew.
"You are very good, sir," said Lord Ulswater, who, like most proud people, conceived advice an insult; "but I imagine myself capable of guiding my horse, at least upon a road so excellent as this." "Certainly, my lord, certainly; I beg your pardon; but bless me, who is that tall fellow in black, talking to himself yonder, my lord?
From these feverish and fearful scenes, the mind turns, with a feeling of grateful relief, to contemplate the happiness of one whose candid and high nature, and warm affections, Fortune, long befriending, had at length blessed. It was on an evening in the earliest flush of returning spring that Lord Ulswater, with his beautiful bride, entered his magnificent domains.
As he had been a firm ally of Lord Ulswater in the contest respecting the meeting, so, when he joined and saluted that nobleman, Lord Ulswater, mindful of past services, returned his greeting with an air rather of condescension than hauteur.
I am his equal in birth, in the world's name, and oh, by what worlds his superior in love! I will advance my claim to you in his very teeth, nay, I will not stir from these domains till you, your father, and my rival, have repaired my wrongs." "Be it so, sir!" cried a voice behind, and Clarence turned and beheld Lord Ulswater!
"At last I heard that Rumour, though it had long preceded, had not belied, the truth, and that you were to be married, married to Lord Ulswater! I will not say what I suffered, or how idly I summoned pride to resist affection!
The side of this path farthest from the road was bordered by a steep declivity of stony and gravelly earth, which almost deserved the dignified appellation of a precipice; and it was with no small exertion of dexterous horsemanship that Lord Ulswater kept his spirited and susceptible steed upon the narrow and somewhat perilous path, in spite of its frequent starts at the rugged descent below.
I have been by the death-beds of many men, and I have noted that shortly before death, as the frame grows weaker and weaker, the fiercer passions yield to those feelings better harmonizing with the awfulness of the hour. When Lord Ulswater saw Flora approach and bend weepingly over him, a momentary softness stole over his face.
Clarence bowed. "So far as I am concerned," said he, "I feel confident that Lady Westborough will not repent of her condescension." There was a pause. "It is singular," said Lady Westborough, looking to the clock upon an opposite table, "that Lord Ulswater has not yet arrived." "It is," said Clarence, scarcely conscious of his words, and wondering whether Lady Flora would deign to appear.
"You have considerably passed the time in which we expected you, my lord," said Lady Westborough, who, as a beauty herself, was a little jealous of the deference due to the beauty of her daughter. "It is true.," said Lord Ulswater, glancing towards the opposite glass, and smoothing his right eyebrow with his forefinger, "it is true, but I could not help it.
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