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Selwyn's tone was curt. "I am not to your sort." My face flushed. "I said this girl was a printer. I should have said she used to be. Two years ago she was caught in some machinery at the place where she worked and has never been able to stand up since. On her birthday her friends give her a party that she may have a bit of brightness. I went over to play that they might dance.
The sobbing in the corner of the room had ceased, and through the thin walls I could hear Selwyn's low tones as he told stumblingly to the child a story that was keeping her quiet, and I knew he, too, was on new thresholds; he, too, was entering unknown worlds. "Tell her " Flame-spent, the eyes again opened and this time looked at Miss White.
He was silent a moment, gazing into the fire; then Hanway, gloomily brooding and disturbed, for the conversation had impressed him much as if it had been post-mortem, so immediate seemed his companion's doom, felt Selwyn's eye upon him, as if his sentiment were so obvious that the sense of sight had detected it. "You think I'm going to die up here all by myself.
Selwyn's egotistical point of view, was all to the good, since Sara had acquired a pleasant habit of making herself both useful and entertaining to the invalid. Molly's emotions carried her to the other extreme of the compass.
Selwyn's face had little colour remaining in it, but he said very kindly: "It's all right, Gerald; don't worry " "I'm a beast!" broke out the boy; "I beg your pardon a thousand times." "Granted, old chap. But, Gerald, may I say one thing or perhaps two?" "Go ahead! Give it to me good and plenty!" "It's only this: couldn't you and I see one another a little oftener?
Selwyn's life, though passed in a momentous age, was uneventful, but the course of it must be traced. George Augustus Selwyn, second son of Colonel John Selwyn, of Matson, in Gloucestershire, and of Mary, daughter of General Farrington, of Kent, was born on the 11th of August, 1719.
When they go right you are not nice to me. To-day I had a letter from Harrie. He's coming back next week. His fiancee and her mother are coming with him. The engagement is not to be announced just yet, however, and he asks me to keep it on the quiet." "And you've told me." "Told you!" Selwyn's voice was querulous. "Don't I tell you everything? Mrs.
"A little way from the town are the ruins of Lantony Priory; there remains a pretty old gateway, which G. Selwyn has begged to erect on the top of his mountain, and it will have a charming effect."* * "The Letters of Horace Walpole," vol. ii. p. 354. Selwyn's schooldays were passed at Eton with Gray and Walpole.
He died at his house in Great Russell Street, then a place of fashion, in 1780, in his 41st year. Selwyn's seat, Matson, in Gloucestershire, received some pretty historical reminiscences. One of Walpole's letters to Bentley, thus speaks of a visit to his friend's villa in the autumn of 1753. "I staid two days at George Selwyn's house, which lies on Robin Hood's hill.
But another and more widespread habit is often referred to in his letters. The gambling which Selwyn disapproved, but indulged in for years, is constantly alluded to in his correspondence. The hold which this vice had upon nearly every one who regarded himself as belonging to the best society of London has never been more clearly and vividly depicted than in Selwyn's letters.
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