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In fact, tacit expectations of what would be done for him by uncle Featherstone determined the angle at which most people viewed Fred Vincy in Middlemarch; and in his own consciousness, what uncle Featherstone would do for him in an emergency, or what he would do simply as an incorporated luck, formed always an immeasurable depth of aerial perspective.
The human mind has at no period accepted a moral chaos; and so preposterous a result was not strictly conceivable. But we are frightened at much that is not strictly conceivable. When Fred came in the old man eyed him with a peculiar twinkle, which the younger had often had reason to interpret as pride in the satisfactory details of his appearance. "You two misses go away," said Mr. Featherstone.
I'll engage that he was born between Ettrick and Liddel." "He kens!" Peter remarked with a twinkle. "My name's no' far frae Ettrick, sir." "My friend, Pete Scott," said Foster. "You have heard the ladies' names, Pete, but this is my partner, Mr. Featherstone, from the Garth." Pete lifted his hand to his forehead and the movement had a touch of dignity.
"I will try and clothe the rest of the story in his own words, although I can hardly hope it will make the same impression on you, that its recital did on me. "'Well, Sir! we all said we would see the sport all but Featherstone who said something about coming on. "'We were engaged to dine with Sir John M , who was in that part of the world, on some six-and-eightpenny mission about indigo.
Many incidents that she had attached no importance to at the time came back to her now laden with vague but terrible significance ... she would not doubt him, only why did he look as if it was true? 'Dear Mr. Ashburn, said Mrs. Featherstone, 'we know what your answer will be, but I think I'm afraid you ought to say something.
Featherstone, 'and it is so useful to know how a scene strikes just the ordinary observer, you know; so if you did notice anything, don't, please, be afraid to mention it! Vincent had told himself that in going there he would be able to put away all personal association with the play; he had given the book up once and for all, he only desired to see Mabel once as his lost heroine.
Old Mrs Lavender belonged to this last class. If asked which side she was on, she would have said, "For the King"; but in her heart she had no enmity to either. Her son was a warmer politician; Jenny, being sixteen, was a much warmer still, and as Robin Featherstone, her hero, was a Cavalier, so of course was she.
He said he wouldn't have lessons when he was in the cars. And we ARE in the cars about half the time. There was an English lady we met in the cars I think her name was Miss Featherstone; perhaps you know her. She wanted to know why I didn't give Randolph lessons give him 'instruction, she called it. I guess he could give me more instruction than I could give him. He's very smart."
"I'd be bound to what I said, ribbons or no ribbons," said Tom firmly. "But I see how it is it's that scented idiot, Featherstone, has come betwixt you and me. O Jenny, my dear love, don't you listen to him! He'll not be bound to a word he says the minute it's not comfortable to keep it.
"How is it about the polar day?" asked Featherstone. "Well," said the doctor, "at the poles themselves there is one day of six months, during which the sun never sets, and one night of six months, during which he never rises. In the spaces between the polar circles the quantities of the continuous day and continuous night vary in accordance with the distance from the pole.
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