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The Collingwoods were a happy pair who could discuss such a divergence before their friends candidly, amicably, with a great many 'My loves' and 'Not for the worlds. Lionel Berrington disappeared after dinner, without holding any communication with his wife, and Laura expected to find that he had taken the carriage, to repay her in kind for her having driven off from Grosvenor Place without him.
He was tall, straight and robust, though rather verging on the elderly. His iron-gray hair was crisply curly, and his dark eyes twinkled out from under bushy gray brows. His smile was captivating. Joyce decided at once that she liked him. "Oh! did you know the family, the the " "Collingwoods!" he supplemented, with his twinkling smile. "Yes, I knew them quite intimately.
This is a sacrifice Lady Davenant would approve of: she said that if ever I should be convinced that General Clarendon did not wish me to be his guest if he should ever cease to esteem me I should go, that instant and I will go. But where? To whom could she fly, to whom turn? The Collingwoods were gone; all her uncle's friends passed rapidly through her recollection.
You, my dear Helen, have done just what I should have expected from you, right; right, too, the condition Mr. Collingwood has made very right. And now to the next point: where are you to live, Helen? or rather with whom?" Helen was not quite sure yet, she said she had not quite determined. "Am I to understand that your doubt lies between the Collingwoods and my daughter?"
The Collingwoods departed; and, after a decent time had elapsed, or what she deemed a decent time, Lady Cecilia was anxious to ascertain what progress had been made; how relatively to each other, Lady Blanche Forrester and Helen stood in Beauclerc's opinion, or rather in his imagination.
'Of course I know that you don't really think a word of what you say about me, Laura went on; 'though I don't know that that makes your saying it a bit less unspeakably base. The brougham pulled up in Park Lane and Mrs. Berrington bent herself to have a view through the front glass. 'We are there, but there are two other carriages, she remarked, for all answer. 'Ah, there are the Collingwoods.
And I'll tell you, doctor, if you would like to stop there for the night, she'd be mighty glad to have you." "Much obliged," replied I, "but I shall go on. It's not late yet, and I can reach the Collingwoods' in good time." We now drove on in silence, our horse actually arching his neck as he thumped through the snow. Drifts had begun to form across the road, but through these he bravely plunged.
Stormont in a half-contemptuous tone. 'Why not? Milly asked quickly. 'Because I never heard any goof of him. 'But he has reformed, it seems, said Mr. Darrell, 'and is leading quite a steady life at Cumber, the Collingwoods tell me. Augusta and I called at the Rectory this morning, and the Rector and his wife talked a good deal of him. I was rather pleased with him, I confess, just now.
The story was a much longer one than I expected it to be, and John must have driven those horses backward and forward for half an hour. "Well," said my uncle, at last, "I never saw your Kitty, but I knew her father and her mother, and I will go in and take a look at her. If I like her, I will take you all on to the Collingwoods', and drop Uncle Beamish at his sister's house."
But I had to do it seeing there is no word of the cruel losses of the battle of the 4th being made good by the Admiralty. The Howe, Hood and Anson attacked on our extreme right, next the French. They did most gloriously most gloriously! As to the Collingwoods, they were simply cut to pieces, losing 25 officers out of 28 in a few minutes.
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