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I could wish to calm your mind, but as I am ignorant of the cause whence your uneasiness arises, I know not what to say, except that I am as wretched as yourself, and shall remain so until we meet.
"A little a very little indeed. I know that your father went to Java, and married a second wife there; and I know, too, that you yourself were rather taken with the lady at one time, and that she threw you over as soon as Mr. Bawdrey senior became a possibility." "That's a mistake," he replied. "She never threw me over, Mr. Headland; she never had the chance.
"Do you not guess, monsieur?" asked Morrel. "Not in the least; but if I can serve you in any way I shall be delighted." "Everything depends on you." "Explain yourself, pray."
And before having yourself tasted such delight, reader, you cannot imagine my elation when, on awakening, I found that my attempt had met with success, that I had gone on observing attentively observing, and thinking thinking deeply and clearly, with full recollection and calm self-consciousness in that mysterious, senseless sphere of wonder and deception.
Mr Oliphant displayed very little interest in his fellow-guardian, but said to Roger "The children will be so delighted to see you. We have talked so much of you. They will be here directly; they are just putting together their things in the cabin. But now tell me all about yourself, my boy."
Has it ever happened to you, reader, to be appreciated on the one point of the good or the great that is in you on which secretly you value yourself most but for which nobody, not admitted into your heart of hearts, has given you credit?
Do you, who have so many friends, so large a circle of acquaintance, find it easy, when you sit down to write, to isolate yourself from all those ties, and their sweet associations, so as to be your OWN WOMAN, uninfluenced or swayed by the consciousness of how your work may affect other minds; what blame or what sympathy it may call forth?
'Eugenie de Choiseul is the niece of the Duc de Choiseul, is she not? he asked. 'Yes, Sire. 'You are affianced! 'Yes, Sire. He shook his head impatiently. 'If you wish to advance yourself in my Court, Monsieur de Laval, said he, you must commit such matters to my care. Is it likely that I can look with indifference upon a marriage between emigres an alliance between my enemies?
In one day chance has worked a miracle for you, a miracle for which I have been waiting these two years, and you must needs amuse yourself by finding fault with the means?
"Then you think I had better keep on with it?" "If you think best," said Anderson, emphatically. "Really, Mrs. Griggs, I cannot settle this matter for you. You often trust people in your business. You must decide yourself." The dressmaker arose. "Well, I guess it's all right," said she. "She's a lovely girl, and so are they all. Her mother seems sort of childish, but she's real sweet-spoken.
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