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Emilia had come down to see him. Charlotte put her in an adjoining room to hear him say what I presume they do say when the fit is on them! Was it not singular folly?" It was a folly that Merthyr could not understand in his friend Charlotte. He said so, and then he gave a kindly sad exclamation of Emilia's name.
"If I can give a proof of it, I am ready to answer," said Merthyr, in some surprise. "Your whole life is the proof of it. The women of your country are intolerable to me, Merthyr: but I do see the worth of the men. Sandra has taught me.
"Oh, soon! or I feel that I shall hate any vestige of will that I have in this head of mine. Not in the heart it is not there! "And sometimes I am burning to sing. The voice leaps to my lips; it is quite like a thing that lives apart my prisoner. "It is true, Laura is here with Merthyr. "Could you come at once? not here, but to Pallanza? We shall both make our mother happy.
This suggested a reference to Lady Merthyr Tydvil, who had taken so great an interest in Austin when last he had been at the Court; and here Aunt Charlotte chimed in, being naturally anxious to hear all about the wonderful old lady who had known Austin's father so well in years gone by, and remembered his mother too.
Emilia let her hand rest in Merthyr's, wondering to think that there should be no absolute darkness for a creature to escape into while living. A trembling came on her. "Let me look over at the water," she said; and Merthyr, who trusted her even in that extremity, allowed her to lean forward, and felt her grasp grow moist in his, till she turned back with shudders, giving him both her hands.
Crawshay set himself to overcome this great impediment to the prosperity of the Merthyr Tydvil district; and, in conjunction with Mr. Homfray of the Penydarran Works, he planned and constructed the canal to Cardiff, the opening of which, in 1795, gave an immense impetus to the iron trade of the neighbourhood.
He is ready to play or be serious, as you please; but in either case 'Merthyr is never a buffoon nor a parson' Lady C. remarked this morning; and that describes him, if it were not for the detestable fling at the clergy, which she never misses. It seems in her blood to think that all priests are hypocrites. What a little boat to be in on a stormy sea, Bella!
'devote yourself!" murmured Georgiana, astonished. "Do you think I should have got into this hobble if I hadn't wished to serve some one else? You must have seen that Merthyr has a sentimental sort of fondness call it passion for this girl. She's his Italy in the flesh. Is there a more civilized man in the world than Merthyr? So he becomes fascinated by a savage.
It was early on the morning of a second day, before sunrise, when Vittoria sent for Merthyr to conduct her to the cathedral. "There has been a battle," she said. Her lips hardly joined to frame the syllables in speech. Merthyr refrained from asking where she had heard of the battle.
Even as he hesitated, for he had urgent stuff to communicate to Carlo, he could see a dreadful whiteness rising on her face, darkening the circles of her eyes. "It's life or death, my dearest, and I am bound to live," she said. Her voice sprang up from tears. Merthyr turned and tried in vain to get a hearing among the excited, voluble men.
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