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Vickers glanced at the books in her hand also new and trembled. "And why not?" demanded Selina. "Why shouldn't we?" Mr. Vickers took another amazed glance round and his brow darkened. "Where did you get the money?" he inquired. "Saved it," said his daughter, reddening despite herself. "Saved it?" repeated the justly-astonished Mr. Vickers. "Saved it?
She behaved, on the trying occasion, so well, that she is now confirmed in her situation; and Lady Cashel has solemnly declared that she will never again, on any account, be persuaded to allow a man cook to enter the house. Lady Selina she would not officiate as one of the bridesmaids is still unmarried; but her temper is not thereby soured, nor her life embittered.
These sounds of requisitioned acclamation were wafted to the ears of Selina Brown and Laura Nelson, who were in the act of leaving the gymnasium. "Well, she partly got what she wanted," remarked Selina Brown grimly as they left the building and set off for Creston Hall where both lived. "I expect that she'll be peeved because things didn't go entirely her way.
I trust I have some mind, to regulate my heart; and some conscience, to prevent my sacrificing my duties for the sake of my heart." "If you knew," said Fanny, "the meaning of what love was, you'd know that it cannot be given up in a moment, as you suppose; rooted out, as you choose to call it. But, to tell you the truth, Selina, I don't choose to root it out.
Lady Selina, when she saw that she was gone, sat down on the sofa and took her book. She tried to make herself believe that she was going to read; but it was no use: the tears dimmed her eyes, and she put the book down.
With about twenty words of English she at once gave battle to Selina, who had bullied us two men from childhood; and routed her. The old woman kept up a running fight for a week before appealing to Obed, and this delay cost her everything. Obed flew in a rage that more than equalled her own, and had the advantage to be unusual and quite unexpected by her.
"If I can prove that my aunt, Lady Selina, was married before my father died, I can establish my claim to Sloperton Grange," he uttered, half aloud. He paused, for a sudden trembling of the earth beneath his feet, and a terrific explosion, as of a park of artillery, arrested his progress.
"Didn't steal your gamboge," declared Selina, haughtily, edging away, however, in the direction of Harold. "And I wouldn't tell lies, either, if I was you, about a dirty little bit of gainboge." I preserved a discreet silence. After all, I knew she knew she stole my gainboge.
"My own Edgardo! and you still love me? You still would marry me in spite of this dark mystery which surrounds me? In spite of the fatal history of my race? In spite of the ominous predictions of my aged nurse?" "I would, Selina;" and the young man passed his arm around her yielding waist. The two lovers gazed at each other's faces in unspeakable bliss. Suddenly Selina started.
"Keep my hand in your hand," I told her; "I am drowning in dark water and I have nothing to hold by but you." "Oh, my darling, don't talk in that way!" "Good Selina! dear Selina! You shall talk to me. Say something harmless tell me a melancholy story try to make me cry." My poor little friend looked sadly bewildered. "I'm more likely to cry myself," she said.
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