Beauchamp's Career -- Volume 7

fondly, when the earl was on the point of starting a second time for Bevisham to perform what she had prompted him

ll that length apart,' said he, very little in the hu

erred to have it unspoken. Few of us care to be eulog

ing under stress of peculiar circumstances, his clearly-awakened recognition of that, impelled him unhesitatingly. His wife had said it was the portion she brought him. Tears would not have persuaded him so powerfully, that he might prove to her he was glad of her whatever the portion she brought. She was a good wife, a brave woman, likely to be an incomparable mother. At present her very virtues excited her to fancifulness nevertheless she was

state of his wife would urge him to speak the apology in

r formerly deceiving him, nor of b

ember afternoon, standing bareheaded in the fir-bordered garden of the cottage

on he may think fit to demand of me for an unprovoked assault on him, that I

ld not have been

apnel r

r-'tis over! What remain

ched his

y closed hi

quiet; but the sight of him standing and conversing after that scene of the skinny creature struggling with bareribbed obstruction on the bed, was an example of constitutional vigour and a compliment to the family very gratifying to Lord Romfrey. Excepting by Cecilia, the earl was coldly received. He had to leave early

hutting shadowed the c

nephew to life,' Lord

it was very s

your share in it

he authority of a wit

experience,' cam

llow sound, unlike

g lad he had once been, and said: 'Why not try a mont

e a month of my frie

you. After these feve

en idle

enny, 'you proposed to do nothin

, with a sailor-invalid's vision of

remembered what had brought her home from the Alps. He cast a cold look on his uncle talking with Cecilia: granite, as he thought. And the reflux of that slight feelin

ently: 'My love to the countess: let

Madeira, and up Teneriffe: sail the Azo

,' said Cecilia. 'And t

an you a

ugh at himself, an

sion of anxiety cross the features o

y said 'Adi

he contrived to avoid taking by

sting her nominal native land! and adieu

interchanged no remark of surprise at seeing the earl and Dr. Shrapnel hand-locked: but Jenny's heart r

o Beauchamp and place the Esperanza at his disposal for a Winter cruise, chanced to mention in two or

ry much concerned about your health; he fears y

id Beauchamp, and began tremb

rong and swift, and said: 'Seven-league boots are not to be caught. You'll see him soon. W

aid Beauchamp and with a dubious eye on

n were summer light playing upon smooth water, could be exceedingly cold in repose: the icier to those who knew her, because they never expressed disdain. No expression of the baser sort belonged to them. Beauchamp was intimat

write a hearty letter

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to go to her c