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"No, Miss Wardour," answered Lovel, in a tone of passionate entreaty; "do not go farther is it not enough to crush every hope in our present relative situation? do not carry your resolutions farther why urge what would be your conduct if Sir Arthur's objections could be removed?" "It is indeed vain, Mr.
Instead of admiring the lovely devotion of the girl-widow to her boy-husband, he scorned himself for having dreamed of a creature who could not only love a fool like Tom Helmer, but go on loving him after he was dead, and that even when Godfrey Wardour had condescended to let her know he loved her. It was thus the devil befooled him.
Mr. Binnie's bedchamber was neat, snug, and appropriate. And Clive had a study and bedroom at the top of the house, which he was allowed to furnish entirely according to his own taste. How he and Ridley revelled in Wardour Street!
While Miss Wardour thus taxed herself with wayward caprice, she, beheld advancing down the avenue, not her younger and more dreaded preserver, but the old beggar who had made such a capital figure in the melodrama of the preceding evening. She rang the bell for her maid-servant. "Bring the old man up stairs."
"At least, however, let my daughter read the narrative she has taken down of the story of Martin Waldeck." "Ah! that was vary true story but Miss Wardour, she is so sly and so witty, that she has made it just like one romance as well as Goethe or Wieland could have done it, by mine honest wort." "To say the truth, Mr.
By night or in the beauty of a spring morning I perceived that I could write that tale and shift continents thereby. In the wet, windy afternoons, I saw that the tale might indeed be written, but would be nothing more than a faked, false-varnished, sham-rusted piece of Wardour Street work at the end. Then I blessed Charlie in many ways though it was no fault of his.
J , and how she herself had once been overwhelmed by the laughter of the Wardour family for having rehearsed to poor Mrs. Brown all the characters of the gods of the Northmen Odin, Thor, and all when she had just learnt them.
Frank belongs to the Sea-mew, and Wardour to the Wanderer. See! Captain Helding has done. My husband is coming this way. Let me make sure. Let me speak to him." Lieutenant Crayford returned to his wife. She spoke to him instantly. "William! you have got a new volunteer who joins the Wanderer?" "What! you have been listening to the captain and me?" "I want to know his name?"
Ain't I just! as Charlie would say. Oh dear! your papa is a delicious man; I'd rather have him for mine than anybody, except Uncle Wardour!" "I'd rather have him than anyone," said the little daughter. "Because he is yours," said Kate; "but somehow, though he is more funny and good-natured than Uncle Wardour, I wouldn't no, I shouldn't like him so well for a papa.
We have always met like brother and sister " Frank generously stopped the apology there. "Say no more," he interposed. "I was in the wrong I lost my temper. Pray forgive me." Wardour looked at him with a strange, reluctant interest while he was speaking. Wardour asked an extraordinary question when he had done. "Is she very fond of you?" Frank burst out laughing.
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