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And Sor Tommaso, like all people who think that they know a vast deal, highly approved of Dalrymple's submissive silence, and said that the young man was a marvel of modesty, and that if he could stay about ten years in Subiaco and learn something from Sor Tommaso himself, he might really some day be a fairly good doctor, which were extraordinarily liberal admissions on the part of the old practitioner, and contributed largely towards reassuring Stefanone concerning his lodger's character.
But the Duke managed to free himself physically, and so regained a little freedom of mind. "Well, upon my word," he said, as he resumed his march up and down "upon my word!" Then, as he stood still before her, "You say she is Marriott Dalrymple's daughter?" "And Lord Lackington's granddaughter." said the Duchess, panting a little from her exertions.
It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple's carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance; she, Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into Molland's, while Mr Elliot stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance.
I found that we should be too late for dinner at Sir John Dalrymple's, to which we were engaged: but I would by no means lose the pleasure of seeing my friend at Hawthornden, of seeing SAM JOHNSON at the very spot where BEN JOHNSON visited the learned and poetical Drummond.
By this time 'the waning night was growing old, and we were yet several miles from Sir John Dalrymple's. Dr. Let me try to describe his situation in his own historical style, I have as good a right to make him think and talk, as he has to tell us how people thought and talked a hundred years ago, of which he has no evidence.
"I am quite ready," he said, "to give Monsieur le Vicomte full satisfaction." The room was by this time crowded to suffocation. I forced my way through, and laid my hand on Dalrymple's arm. "You have provoked this quarrel," I said, reproachfully. "That, my dear fellow, is precisely what I came here to do," he replied. "You will have to be my second in this affair."
There could certainly be no serious objection to the match on that score, when another year should have passed. Dalrymple's only anxiety about his daughter concerned her strong inclination to be a public singer. The prejudice was by no means extraordinary, and as a Scotchman, it had even more weight with him than it could have had, for instance, with an Italian.
As soon as Lady Dalrymple heard this she suspected that it was Count Girasole. She determined to have his advice about it. So she sent a private request to that effect. It was Count Girasole. He entered, and threw his usual smile around. He was charmed, in his broken English, to be of any service to miladi. To Lady Dalrymple's statement and question Girasole listened attentively.
Or does he think that a thing to be done with eight thousand men?" * To wit, three thousand men for Scotland, and the usual guards and garrisons in England, amounting to near five thousand men. Sir J. Dalrymple's App p. 161. Van Beverning was the Dutch ambassador at Nimeguen, a man of great authority with the states.
A brave secret-service officer who had aided her that's what Mr. Heatherbloom was to the governor and his better half. Hence the distinct formality of Sir Charles' note to Mr. Heatherbloom, indited at Miss Dalrymple's special request and somewhat against the good baronet's own secret judgment. A police agent may be valiant as a lion, but he is not a gentleman.
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