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The ball at Brendon House Chloe still felt the triumph of it in her veins still saw the softening in Roger's handsome face, the look of lazy pleasure, and the disapproval or was it the envy? in the eyes of certain county magnates looking on. Since then, no communication between Heston and Upcott. Mrs. Fairmile was now a couple of miles from the meet.
"You must let me make a pilgrimage when it comes. But you know you'd find a number of things at Upcott where I'm staying now that would interest you. I forget whether you've met the Duchess?" "This is our first week here," said Roger, interposing. "The house has been let till now. We came down to see what could be made of it." His tone was only just civil.
It was published in the "New Monthly Magazine" a few months after its author's death, with the following preface or introduction from the pen of some unknown admirer of Elia: "We have been favored, by the kindness of Mr. Upcott, with the following sketch, written in one of his manuscript collections, by Charles Lamb.
So she withdrew angrily from the scene, and tried not to know what was going on. Meanwhile a note of invitation had been addressed to Daphne by the Duchess, and had been accepted; Roger had been reminded, at the point of the bayonet, that go he must; and Dr. Lelius had transferred himself from Heston to Upcott, and the companionship of Mrs. Fairmile. It was the last day of the Frenches' visit.
He did not profess, indeed, any enthusiasm of humanity; but French found in him new curiosities. That children should starve, and slave, and suffer that moved him. He was, at any rate, for hanging the parents. The day of the Upcott visit came, and, in spite of all recalcitrance, Roger was made to mount the motor beside his wife. Lady Barnes had entirely refused to go, and Mr. and Mrs.
"Well, now, when will you all come to Upcott?" Mrs. Fairmile said graciously, as she shook hands. "The Duchess will be enchanted to see you any day, and " "Thank you! but we really can't come so far," said a determined voice. "We have only a shaky old motor our new one isn't ready yet and besides, we want all our time for the house." "You make him work so hard?" Mrs.
She thought of the skill the peremptory smiling skill with which she had beguiled him into the garden, on the day when the young couple paid their first call at Upcott. First, the low-spoken words at the back of the drawing-room, while Mrs. Barnes and the Duchess were skirmishing "I must speak to you. Something that concerns another person something urgent."
If you are at Gunville at Christmas, I hold out hopes to myself that I shall be able to pass a week with you there. I mentioned to you at Upcott a kind of comedy that I had committed to writing in part. This is in the wind.
Boswell: 'This very book accompanied Mr. Samuel Johnson and me in our Tour to the Hebrides. UPCOTT. Croker's Boswell, p. 267. Macbeth, act i. sc. 3. See ante, iii. 24, and post, Nov. 10. Our friend Edmund Burke, who by this time had received some pretty severe strokes from Dr.
Indeed, indeed, my dear sir, with tears in my eyes, and with all my heart and soul, I wish it were as easy for us all to meet as it was when you lived at Upcott. Yet when I revise the step I have taken, I know not how I could have acted otherwise than I did act. Everything I promised myself in this country has answered far beyond my expectation.
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