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Miss Lincoln seemed chagrined. "You must be very much attached to him, then, Mr. Dacre." "Yes, of course I am; and I have not seen him for some years. He has not changed much." "If he is Geoffrey Ripon, Earl of Brompton, it is to him that this estate used to belong, then?" "Yes, Miss Lincoln, in his father's day it was a beautiful place; there were none of these modern gewgaws here.
Her eyes and those of the King must have fallen upon him almost at the same moment. The heart in her bosom leapt wildly. Pale and worn as he was, she recognized Geoffrey Ripon. "Lord Brompton!" exclaimed the King, and he grew confused, for the peer did not kneel as the others had done. "Lord Brompton, I am glad to see you," and he remounted the throne.
"Surely that can be managed. It is no further than Brompton." Jacob, who had been gradually calmed by the need to hear what was going forward, began now to see some daylight on the future, the word "visit" having the lively charm of cakes and general relaxation at his grandfather's, the dealer in knives.
"Two dry Martinis" this to the yellow-waistcoated steward now at his elbow. "It's Billy Holcomb you've come to meet. He wrote me he was coming to New York on business and I made him promise to come here first. He and I hunted together last fall and I wanted you and Brompton to know him. What I'm afraid of is that he has missed the night express.
The arch and the Achilles statue were up since he had last been in Piccadilly; a hundred changes had occurred which his eye and mind vaguely noted. He began to tremble as he walked up the lane from Brompton, that well-remembered lane leading to the street where she lived. Was she going to be married or not? If he were to meet her with the little boy Good God, what should he do?
He remembered those eyes well, but here was something in them which was not there when his brain last thrilled with their magnetic glances a something which he could not understand, but which repelled him. She raised her hand and seemed to beckon to him, and he obeyed her command. "You remember me, then, Lord Brompton," she said coldly, as she gave him her hand.
On the way to Brompton, in reply to the questions of Dr. , Percival spoke of the dejection to which Helen was occasionally subject, and this circumstance confirmed Dr. , after he had seen his patient, in his view of the case.
Labour, take back your son." An hour afterwards, and his clerk, returning home, found Ardworth employed as calmly as usual on his Law Reports. That day, when he called at Brompton, Percival reported to Madame Dalibard his interview with the eccentric Mr. Tomkins.
It is a diverting book and illustrates Borrow's taste. From 1860 to 1874 Borrow lived at Brompton, and perhaps because he wrote few letters these years seem to have been more cheerful, except at the time of his wife's death. He is seen at "The Star and Garter" in 1861 entertaining Murray and two others at dinner, in a heavy and expensive style.
They started; and, for the first day, followed the course of the Gibson river, which for nearly thirty miles bounded the Brompton run. At this point its waters were joined by a tributary creek, and here was situated one of the out-stations.
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