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Erwyn observed "and I apprehend those spacious shining eyes to be more keen than the tongue of a dowager, you must have seen of late that I have presumed to hope to think that she whom I love so tenderly might deign to be the affectionate, the condescending friend who would assist me to retrieve the indiscretions of my youth "
Erwyn," she stated, "this is a disclosure I have looked for these six months." "Split me!" said Mr. Erwyn. "Heavens, yes!" said she. "You have been a rather dilatory lover " "I am inexpressibly grieved, that I should have kept you waiting " " and in fact, I had frequently thought of reproaching you for your tardiness " "Nay, in that case," said Mr.
Well, I have not been unreasonably blind, and I do not object, and I do not believe that Dorothy will prove obdurate." "You render me the happiest of men," Mr. Erwyn stated, rapturously. "You have, then, already discussed this matter with Miss Allonby?"
Erwyn, "in the heyday of my youth, I grant you; but I am not for that reason necessarily unmoved by the attractions of an advantageous person, a fine sensibility and all the graces." He sipped his tea with an air of resentment; and Lady Allonby, in view of the disparity of age which existed between Mr. "Who is she?" said Lady Allonby, all friendly interest. "An angel," said Mr. Erwyn, fencing.
Erwyn sighed as he ended his recital half for pity of the misguided folk who had afforded Tunbridge its latest scandal, half for relief that, in spite of many difficulties, the story had been set forth in discreet language which veiled, without at all causing you to miss, the more unsavory details. "And so," said he, "poor Harry is run through the lungs, and Mrs.
Erwyn; "and, indeed, I would, for her sake, that the errors of my past life were not so numerous, nor the frailty of my aspiring resolutions rendered apparent ah, so many times! to a gaping and censorious world. For, as you are aware, I cannot offer her an untried heart; 'tis somewhat worn by many barterings.
Such was the person who, with a habitual emphasis which dowagers found hoydenish and all young men adorable, demanded without prelude: "Heavens! What can it be, Mr. Erwyn, that has cast Mother into this unprecedented state of excitement?" "What, indeed?" said he, and bowed above her proffered hand. "For like a hurricane, she burst into my room and cried, 'Mr.
The confusion of his utterance, his approach to positive agitation as he waved his teaspoon, moved Lady Allonby. "It is true," she said, "that I have not been wholly blind " "Anastasia," said Mr. Erwyn, with yet more feeling, "is not our friendship of an age to justify sincerity?" "Oh, bless me, you toad! but let us not talk of things that happened under the Tudors.
"Her tender heart," said Mr. Erwyn, "is affected by the pathetic and moving spectacle of the poor hungry swans, pining for their native land and made a raree-show for visitors in the Pantiles; and she has gone to stay them with biscuits and to comfort them with cakes." "Really!" said Lady Allonby. "And," Mr.
'Tis true, I have lived since in indifferent comfort; yet it is but a dreary banquet where there is no platter laid for Love, and within the chambers of my heart dust-gathering now, my dear! he has gone unfed these fifteen years or more." "Ah, goodness!" sighed Miss Allonby, touched by the ardor of his speech. "And so, you have loved Mother all of fifteen years?" "Nay, split me !" said Mr. Erwyn.
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