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His young wife, I suppose, liked the neighbourhood of London; and when elderly gentlemen do marry, you know they are no longer their own masters; but if you had ever come to Fulham ah! then, indeed, my uncle would have rejoiced to see his old friend." "Your lordship thinks so," said Mr. Winsley with a sardonic smile. "But that must have been true; he was out, you may depend on it."
"This is an unexpected honour, my lord: I don't know how to account for it." "Why, Mr. Winsley, your friendship with my late uncle can, perhaps, sufficiently explain and apologize for a visit from a nephew sincerely attached to his memory." "Humph! I certainly did do all in my power to promote Mr. Templeton's interests.
Should you care to give a reply to these queries, send me a line addressed to London, which I shall get on my way to Paris. Yours most truly, As soon as he had concluded, and despatched this letter, Vargrave wrote to Mr. Winsley as follows:
Winsley smiled, and glanced at a rosy-cheeked young lady, who simpered and turned away. "I think my daughter could recommend one to your lordship, if she dared." "Oh, Pa!" "I see. Well, Miss Winsley, I will take no recommendation but yours." Miss Winsley made an effort. "Indeed, my lord, I have always heard Mr. Robert Hobbs considered very clever in his profession." "Mr. Robert Hobbs is my man!
"I have the honour, etc." The next morning Vargrave despatched a note to Mr. Winsley, saying that his health required him to return to town immediately, and to town, in fact, he hastened. The day after his arrival, he received, in a hurried hand strangely blurred and blotted, perhaps by tears this short letter: For Heaven's sake, tell me what you mean!
Winsley," and Lumley held out his hand with enchanting frankness, "you know my motives are disinterested; I have no parliamentary interest to serve, we have no constituents for our Hospital of Incurables; and oh! that's right, we're friends, I see! Now I must go and look after my ward's houses. Let me see, the agent's name is is " "Perkins, I think, my lord," said Mr.
His young wife, I suppose, liked the neighbourhood of London; and when elderly gentlemen do marry, you know they are no longer their own masters; but if you had ever come to Fulham ah! then, indeed, my uncle would have rejoiced to see his old friend." "Your lordship thinks so," said Mr. Winsley with a sardonic smile. "But that must have been true; he was out, you may depend on it."
"I have the honour, etc." The next morning Vargrave despatched a note to Mr. Winsley, saying that his health required him to return to town immediately, and to town, in fact, he hastened. The day after his arrival, he received, in a hurried hand strangely blurred and blotted, perhaps by tears this short letter: For Heaven's sake, tell me what you mean!
Robert Hobbs himself, a smart young man, with a black stock, red whiskers, and an eye-glass pendant to a hair-chain which was possibly a gage d'amour from Miss Margaret Winsley. A profusion of bows, compliments, apologies, etc., the carriage drove up the sweep, and Lord Vargrave descended, and was immediately ushered into Mr. Hobbs's private room.
It seemed, however, that Winsley whose resentment was not of a very active or violent kind had not communicated the discovery he had made to his fellow townspeople; but had contented himself with hints and aphorisms, whenever he had heard the subject of Mr. Templeton's marriage discussed, which had led the gossips of the place to imagine that he had made a much worse selection than he really had.
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