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Vavasour, and I only ask because I do not understand. What are poetic fancies?" Lucia looked up in his face puzzled, and saw there an expression so grave, pitying, tender, that her heart leaped up toward him, and then sank back again. "Why do you ask? Why need you know? You are no poet." "And for that very cause I ask you."
"Oh! she died just before the squire came to the property," quoth the mother. "Poor thing! she was so pretty! I am sure I cried for a whole hour when I heard it! I think it was three years last month when it happened. Old Mr. Vavasour died about two months afterwards." Bossolton, who was the victim of a most fiery Mrs. Merrylack?" "He did. And you know, Mr.
As the General was an old man, I picked out George de Courcy Vavasour as best fitted to digest the wrong edition. I made him eat it. It seemed to disagree with him; but he got through with an effort." Helen felt that she ought to decline further discussion. But she was tongue tied.
Not that I want them to inform me of your rights: I am fully acquainted with them. You would like to be a peer, sir. Well, you are really Lord Vavasour, but there is a difficulty in establishing your undoubted right from the single writ of summons difficulty. I will not trouble you with technicalities, Sir Vavasour: sufficient that the difficulty is great though perhaps not unmanageable.
In a few minutes she saw Maria coming quickly across the lawn; she passed through the window and the room without looking up or speaking, and, with a little sob, disappeared. Graham followed more slowly, and sitting down by the table, moodily watched his sister's fingers moving rapidly to and fro. "That is all over," he said at last. "What is all over?" inquired Mrs. Vavasour.
"Ah! if you knew how I love dancing! and it is so many years since I have had a waltz!" Later on in the evening, Lady Lorrimer, the fashionable, gay, kind-hearted hostess, came up to her. "Miss Linders," she said, "I have a favour to ask of you. My aunt, Lady Adelaide Spencer, is passionately fond of music, and Mrs. Vavasour has been telling us how beautifully you sing.
Vavasour kept his eyes fixed on the zoophyte, and said, "I shall be only too delighted, if you wish it." "You will wish it yourself a second time," chimed in Campbell, "if you try it once. Perhaps you know nothing of him but professionally. Unfortunately for professional men, that too often happens." "Know anything of him I! I assure you not, save that he attends Mrs.
Vavasour Powell, the apostle of Wales, spent the eleven years which followed the Restoration in prisons at Shrewsbury, Southsea, and Cardiff, till he perished in the Fleet.
A real philosopher, alike from his genial disposition and from the influence of his rich and various information, Vavasour moved amid the strife, sympathising with every one; and perhaps, after all, the philanthropy which was his boast was not untinged by a dash of humour, of which rare and charming quality he possessed no inconsiderable portion.
"Not for him, Tom, for myself!" moaned Elsley. "For neither, dear lad! Let bygones be bygones, and do you be a new man, and go home to Mrs. Vavasour." "Never, never, never, never, never, never!" shrieked Elsley like a baby, every word increasing in intensity, till the whole house rang; and then threw himself into the crazy chair, and dashed his head between his hands upon the table.
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