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He pledged me his word to that effect solemnly; he correctly felt that if the truth were known, there would be further cause for the reprobation of the man who had been his host. 'And that poor girl, Nevil? 'Miss Denham? She contracted the habit of eating meat at school, and drinking wine in Paris, and continues it, occasionally. Now run upstairs. Insist on food.
Cecilia Halkett and Tuckham; you and I! Now, I know for certain that I have brought Cecilia Halkett out of her woman's Toryism, and given her at least liberal views, and she goes and marries an arrant Tory; while you, a bit of a Tory at heart, more than anything else, have married an ultra. 'Perhaps we may hope that the conflict will be seasonable on both sides? if you give me fair play, Nevil!
His rejoinder was the dumb one, commonly eloquent and satisfactory. Renee shut her eyes with a painful rigour of endurance. She opened them to look at him steadily. The desperate act of her flight demanded immediate recognition from him in simple language and a practical seconding of it. There was the test. 'I cannot stay in this house, Nevil; take me away.
Continuing therefore his course to sea, he met within a day or two some ships newly come from Spain, among which was a ship belonging to Monsieur Gourdon, governor of Calais, on board of which was one Mr Nevil Davies an Englishman, who had endured a long and miserable captivity of twelve years, partly in the inquisition, and had now by good fortune made his escape, and was on his way home.
'For that reason, Nevil rejoined, with the calm fanaticism of the passion of love, 'I hope all the more . . . because I will not believe that she, so pure and good, can be sacrificed. Put me aside I am nothing. I hope to save her from that. 'We have now, said Roland, 'struck the current of duplicity. You are really in love, my poor fellow.
Her antipathy attributed something electrical to the light they shot. Dr. Shrapnel's account of Nevil stated him to have gone to call on Colonel Halkett, a new resident at Mount Laurels, on the Otley river. Rosamund suggested that he might stay late at Mount Laurels. 'Then he will arrive here after nightfall, said the doctor. 'A bed is at your service, ma'am. The offer was declined.
In addition to the bearers and some other slight attendance there walked with it Sir John Nevil and Captain Powell, Giles Arden and Sir Mortimer Ferne. Sometimes the latter laid his hand upon the youth's burning forehead, sometimes upon the lips which would have babbled overmuch. Bearers and escort stared and stared.
When Aymer was not irritated, he was bitter and sarcastic, even his greeting to his father was short and cold. Aston a clue to the situation. Nevil was wading through a book on farm management, which bored him considerably. His part was to read long extracts which Aymer was comparing with some letters in the "Field." They continued their employment and Mr. Aston sat down to write a letter.
Upon my word, I discover myself talking wisdom to you. Girls are precious fragilities. Marriage is the mould for them; they get shape, substance, solidity: that is to say, sense, passion, a will of their own: and grace and tenderness, delicacy; all out of the rude, raw, quaking creatures we call girls. Paris! my dear Nevil. Paris! It's the book of women.
Too much money was not the origin of the fever in Nevil's case, but he had too small a sense of the value of what he possessed, and the diminishing stock would be likely to cry out shrilly. To this effect, never complaining that Nevil Beauchamp had not come to him to take counsel with him, the high-minded old gentleman talked.
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