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Youth is proverbially unreasonable and fastidious on these subjects, and Verty, with the true folly of a young man, could not discern in Miss Sallianna those thousand graces and attractions, linguistic, philosophical, historical and scientific, which made her so far superior to the child with whom he had played, and committed the folly of falling in love with.
In a quarter of an hour the severe lady came forth again, accompanied by the simpering Miss Sallianna, and by poor Redbud, who, wrapped in a shawl, and with red, feverish cheeks, made Verty sigh more deeply than before. A bright smile from the kind eyes, a gentle pressure of the white, soft hand, now hot with fever, and the young girl was gone from him.
Jinks, with a savage look at O'Brallaghan, was about to return to his work, when a letter, protruding from the pocket of the coat which Verty had just taken off, attracted his attention, and he pounced upon it without hesitation. Jinks had recognized the handwriting of Miss Sallianna in the address, and in an instant determined to use no ceremony.
From the forest, they went to the mossy glen, as we may call it, though that was not its name; and Verty enlivened the company with a description of a flock of young partridges which had there started up once, and running between his feet, disappeared before his very eyes.
Verty, if he wished to have it there was time to make another for the aforesaid elegant customer. Verty tried the coat on, and O'Brallaghan declared, enthusiastically, that it fitted him "bewchously." Mr.
No, I don't think it is Fanny," murmured Ralph, with a thoughtful expression; "I think I'm safe there. A dangerous rival!" And Ralph smiled at his own thoughts. "What did you say, sir?" asked Jinks, frowning in the direction of the Bower of Nature. "Nothing, my boy; but I say, Jinks, what makes you look so fierce? You resemble an ogre you're not going to eat Mr. Verty?"
Vile caitiff! advance one step at your peril try to go and complete arrangements for a matrimonial engagement at the Bower of Nature, and thou diest!" Verty was getting angry. "Mr. Jinks, you'd better get out of the way," he said, calmly. "Never! stand back! Attempt to push your animal toward me, and I slaughter him. Base caitiff! Know that the rival you have yonder is myself!
Verty nursed the wounded pigeon with the tenderness of a woman and the skill of a physician; so that on the third day, as he had promised himself, the bird was completely "restored to health." The wing had healed, the eyes grown bright again, every movement of the graceful head and burnished neck showed how impatient the air-sailer was to return to his mistress and his home.
I always had to reply, when they got down upon their knees to me, and squeezed my hands, that I could not force my sensations; and though I should ever esteem them as friends, I could not change my condition of maiden meditation and exculpation for the agitation of matrimonial engagements. I need not say that now my feelings have changed, and you, Mr. Verty, have become the idle of my existence.
"Did'nt he, Redbud?" asked Fanny, appealing to her friend. "No," said Verty, before she could reply; "I said I was in love with Redbud!" And the ingenuous face of the young man was covered with blushes. Fanny fairly shook with laughter.
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