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Página 107 - ... should be known and distinguished hereafter, as one in which patronage of office was relied on for political and personal support ? Is not this against all that you and I have written and spoken and repeated in every form within the last ten years ? I know, my dear sir, that I am addressing you freely ; but out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh...
Página 237 - Laura is an angel, and Kitty was the opposite. Because you are happy, you think how much pleasanter it would have been to be scolded, and sermonised, and quarrelled with, and looked down upon; whereas little Laura worships the very ground you tread upon — the more fool she ! " Perry never got much condolence from Polly Cornford, you may be sure. His prosperity was the crowning satisfaction of her life, and she talked of it by day, and dreamed of it by night. She wrote to Kitty about it — perhaps...
Página 3 - Baronet would not have been nattered by the Baron's equally candid opinion of him — though, in truth, it was far from being very deprecatory. It may be safely affirmed that the faculty of contempt diminishes in proportion as we grow wiser, and the Baron had been growing wiser for many years. Kitty, as has been said, was exceedingly piqued by the Baron's absence from the picnic, and determined to punish him for his defalcation, when opportunity offered. It is a question whether such a pleasant thing...
Página 199 - To that speech Prissy elicited a monosyllabic answer only. Then she went up to her father coaxingly, and said — " But why do you look so grave, papa ?" For Dr. Norman's face had been growing sadder and sadder, and at the sound of the loving little voice, and the touch of the caressing little hand, his composure gave way. It was not so much the loss of Laura that made him feel desolate, as the thought that they had been so little to each other, and that she could leave him so willingly. He had hardly...
Página 238 - Perugino's own affair. But since Perry had married a young wife, it was surely his duty to bestir himself a little, and go about the business of life in a manly spirit. Dr. Norman set a hundred little traps of the kind Perry was too blind to see. For instance, he would send him the following note — " DEAR PERUGINO, " Will you bring Laura to dine with me to-morrow at seven o'clock ? So-and-so " (naming the very person Perry had expressed a desire to meet) " is coming, &c., &c. ; all of them worth...
Página 226 - a mere tour- de-force. I said I would imitate Gr " (naming one of our leading painters), " and I did it. I shall begin work steadily next week. But you must see what Laura has done." " Oh ! no, Perry !" Laura cried, shyly. But Perry persisted in bringing out. a little picture of Laura's; and the quietude of the house was again disturbed. "Huzza! Mrs; Neeve !" cried the gentlemen. " Huzza ! bravo ! Laura !" cried the ladies, clapping their hands. Poor Dr. Norman retreated to a chair, stunned with...
Página 274 - ... stopping at Paradise Place than at the seedsman's, who lived within a stone's throw ? If the neighbourhood were a disreputable one, Sir George should not have sent her thither. She gave the order ; and, to the intense amazement of the little colony, an open carriage and pair stopped at Polly Cornford's door. " Ask if Mrs Cornford is within," she said to the man ; "if not, leave this.
Página 101 - ... supererogatory. She was too well satisfied, however, with Sir George's new mood to cavil at minor mortifications, and had, moreover, schooled herself resolutely into an attitude of meekness. I have, indeed, won a treasure in this girl, Sir George thought, who has so taken to heart the teachings of adversity. What other woman would recognise her true position — as she does — to the nicety of a hair? And as the rest of the party lay prostrate in their berths and the sailors were busy, he snatched...
Página 188 - LXV. THE BOHEMIAN WEDDING. HAVING obtained Dr. Norman's consent to his suit, Perry could not rest till he had mooted the subject of marriage. There was no sort of moderation in the young man's character ; and the more easily did he obtain his inch, the more fractiously did he demand his ell. He was, as he said, growing a little tired of shams; — "and soap and water,