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Updated: June 19, 2025
If told of Harrie's past dissipations, she'd soothe herself with the usual dope of boys being boys, and men being men, and bygones being bygones." Selwyn's hands made gesture of disgust. "It's a plain case of damned fool. She deserves what she'll get if she lets her daughter marry Harrie. But the daughter doesn't. Somebody ought to tell the child she mustn't marry him.
"But as for Polly, why, she's good good as gold, sir." There was no mistaking Mr. Selwyn's sentiments there, and his old cheek glowed while giving what to him meant the most wonderful praise to be paid to a person. Old Mr. King straightened up. "You've said the right thing now," he declared. "And I wish I could see that girl when she's grown up," added the little old gentleman.
Here again Selwyn's departure was significant. There never came another who looked upon Maori and pakeha with the same equal and comprehensive love.
Being his first case of beauty in distress, and his first harmless love-affair with a married woman, he looked about him as he entered the club and felt truly that he had already outgrown the young and callow innocents who haunted it. On her way home Alixe smilingly reviewed the episode until doubt of Selwyn's approval crept in again; and her amused smile had faded when she reached her home.
Here" and he laid a check across the note in Selwyn's hand "here's the balance of what you've advanced me. Thank God, I've made it good, every cent. But the debt is only the deeper. . . . Good-bye, Philip." Selwyn held the boy's hand a moment.
I received a consideration ample enough if the lease had been for a year. Anne, daughter of Sir William Montgomery, and second wife of George, first Viscount Townshend. Maria Fagniani, Selwyn's adopted daughter. This is the first mention of her in this correspondence. Stephen Fox, second Baron Holland. A self-mposed restriction on gambling.
Yet among Selwyn's many friends and acquaintances two groups are remarkable. The first was formed of men of his own age Walpole, Edgecumbe, Gilly Williams, and Lord March comprise what may be called the Strawberry Hill group. It was at Walpole's famous villa that they liked best to meet, and it is by Reynolds that Walpole's "out-of-town party" has been handed down to us.
Not to be wanting in the ordinary courtesies of the time, Selwyn's correspondent presently remarks, as one nowadays would do of a day's grouse-shooting: "I hope you have had good sport at the Place de Greve, to make up for losing the sight of so notorious a villain as Lady Harrington's porter. Mais laisons la ce discours triste, and let us talk of the living and lively world."
"Hello yourself," replied Selwyn, keeping off the circling pups with the point of his stick. "What is this, anyway a Walpurgis hunt? or Eliza and the bloodhounds?" Several children, disentangling themselves from the heap, rose to confront the visitor; the shocked man, Dawson, attempted to speak again, but Selwyn's raised hand quieted him.
Such a compliment as this could not fail to reconcile me to myself; and with revived spirits, I entered into a conversation, which he supported with me till Mrs. Selwyn's carriage was announced; and we returned home. During our ride, Mrs.
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