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I mean everybody wants to wait all the old ones, I mean not Hugh or May, of course to know whether Mark will stick to the umbrellas, or turn back and be a clergyman, because, then, of course, he would have the living; and if he doesn't, they want to be certain whether Uncle Alwyn, or you, Nuttie, would promise it to Hugh if he married May! 'Me! exclaimed Nuttie.
Now, in this crowning hour, the vast and gigantic destiny of the great earl comprehended all upon which its darkness or its light had fallen: not only the luxurious Edward, the perjured Clarence, the haughty Margaret, her gallant son, the gentle Anne, the remorseful Isabel, the dark guile of Gloucester, the rising fortunes of the gifted Hastings, but on the hazard of that die rested the hopes of Hilyard, and the interests of the trader Alwyn, and the permanence of that frank, chivalric, hardy, still half Norman race, of which Nicholas Alwyn and his Saxon class were the rival antagonistic principle, and Marmaduke Nevile the ordinary type.
Come and get what you want any time," he called back. "But about the prices," said Alwyn, following him. "Oh, they'll be all right." "Of course. But what I want is an estimate of your lowest cash prices." "Cash?" "Yes, sir." Cresswell thought a while; such a business-like proposition from Negroes surprised him. "Well, I'll let you know," he said.
This disgrace will spur them on to make great efforts, and these will be needed, or we shall see Northumberland, Cumberland, and Durham in flames." Alwyn was not mistaken.
I went up to him and explained. I found he knew all about the loss and the reward, and looked regretfully at my prize. We went back to the hotel, where I set Alwyn to rights as well as I could, sent out for some clothes, such as the place would produce, and which at least, as he says, made a boy of him again.
Fool thou must be, and breaker of the King's law, else thou hadst never dared to bask in such swine-like ease outside the gates of Al- Kyris the Magnificent!" Al-Kyris the Magnificent! What was the man talking about? Uttering a hasty exclamation, Alwyn staggered to his feet with an effort, and shading his eyes from the hot glare of the sun, stared bewilderedly at his interlocutor.
As soon as Alwyn had departed, Madge appeared with the final refreshment, called "the Wines," consisting of spiced hippocras and confections, of the former of which the Nevile partook in solemn silence.
'Ah, poor deluded human nature! as old Moxall says, while in the same breath he contradicts himself by asserting that human Reason is the only infallible means of ascertaining anything! How it can be 'deluded' and 'infallible' at the same time, I can't quite understand! But, Alwyn, you haven't told me how you like the 'get-up' of your book?"
But though Olivia smiled at Martha's lugubrious speeches, she could not help being rather sorry herself. Alwyn was not a perfect character by any means, but somehow he had such nice ways with him, little caressing ways that go to a woman's heart. His nature was affectionate and emotional, and all his troubles had not hardened him.
"Ass!" said Alwyn under his breath "One would like to shake him out of his absurd self-complacency!" Heliobas shrugged his shoulders expressively: "My dear fellow, he would only bray! and the braying of an ass is not euphonious! No! you might as well shake a dry clothes-prop and expect it to blossom into fruit and flower, as argue with a musical critic, and expect him to be enthusiastic!
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