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Fairfield's arm in his, and led her into the house; but when he had got her safe into his parlour Leonard following all the time and the door was closed upon those three, then Richard Avenel's ire burst forth. "You impudent, ungrateful, audacious drab!" Yes, drab was the word. I am shocked to say it, but the duties of a historian are stern: and the word was drab.
That would give a new feature to the election, and perplex all our calculations; and I fear, in that case, there might be some secret coalition between Avenel's friends and our Committee, whom, I am told, I displeased by the moderate speech which your Lordship so eloquently defended, a coalition by which Avenel would come in with Mr. Egerton, whereas, if we all four stand, Mr.
Avenel presented Leonard were returned, with a note meant to express gratitude, but certainly written with very little knowledge of the world; and so full of that somewhat over-resentful pride which had in earlier life made Leonard fly from Hazeldean, and refuse all apology to Randal, that it is not to be wondered at that Mr. Avenel's last remorseful feelings evaporated in ire.
There it sees the operations of money on the outer life; sees all the ruder and commoner springs of action; sees ambition without nobleness, love without romance; is bustled about and ordered and trampled and cowed, in short, it passes an apprenticeship with some Richard Avenel, and does not detect what good and what grandeur, what addition even to the true poetry of the social universe, fractional existences like Richard Avenel's bestow; for the pillars that support society are like those of the Court of the Hebrew Tabernacle, they are of brass, it is true, but they are filleted with silver.
Avenel's good graces, so it had propitiated her husband's. Avenel was shrewd enough to see how clever Randal was. He called him "smart," and said "he would have got on in America," which was the highest praise Dick Avenel ever accorded to any man.
John Avenel's vote for Egerton gave another turn to the vicissitudes of that memorable election.
From this trance, for so it might be called, he was awakened by a voice in a decidedly London accent; and, turning hastily round, saw Mr. Avenel's very gentlemanlike butler. Leonard's first idea was that his uncle had repented, and sent in search of him.
"Of Richard Avenel's?" interrupted Egerton; and then added in the slow, deliberate, argumentative tone in which he was wont to speak in public, "Richard Avenel the trader! I saw him once, a presuming and intolerable man!" "The nephew has not those sins. He is full of promise, of modesty, yet of pride. And his countenance oh, Egerton, he has her eyes." Egerton made no answer, and Harley resumed,
From this trance, for so it might be called, he was awakened by a voice in a decidedly London accent; and, turning hastily round, saw Mr. Avenel's very gentlemanlike butler. Leonard's first idea was that his uncle had repented, and sent in search of him.
He questioned him more particularly concerning the Baron of Avenel's probable forces the strength of his castle the dispositions of his next heir, and this brought necessarily forward the sad history of his brother's daughter, Mary Avenel, which was told with an embarrassment that did not escape Murray. "Ha!
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