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Page 96 - She was not, good sooth, of the countess or duchess class ; but he saw that she was a lady who might have held herself at a wide distance from him, and therefore, when she sate and talked with him in such an unaffected and friendly way, he felt an entirely new sensation of gratified vanity and stimulated intelligence stirring within him. It pleased him to say to his wife that Mrs. Vanthorpe did not care to talk to him, and to draw forth Janet's simple earnest assurance of her conviction that Mrs....
Page 200 - ... soon after he returns to it, will, if I am not more mistaken than ever I was in my life, equal his birth and my hopes. Such a connection will be of infinite advantage to you ; and I can assure you that he is extremely disposed to form it upon my account ; and will, I hope and believe, desire to improve and cement it upon your own.
Page 20 - The chiefs and managers of parties swore at him a good deal among themselves, for he was always disturbing the arrangements of head-quarters everywhere and splitting up constituencies. When a contest between some representative of his own political party and an opponent was so nicely balanced as to leave to his own side only a confident hope of success, Major Leven was sure to appear in the field as the exponent of some cause, or case, or grievance, for which the chiefs cared nothing, to present...
Page 40 - Albert's life, the memorials of each stage of growth and culture and whim and fad he had passed through, in order that this chamber of memory might illustrate his whole career. Over the chimney-piece was a large photograph of the cemetery in which he lay buried and of his grave. One who came and sat in this room even in gaudy summer might have almost -fancied himself far away from the tumult of modern life, buried in the seclusion of some lonely demesne, whose rightful owner is dead, and which is...
Page 84 - In fact, I don't know what he lives on ; Janet and I are rich in comparison. But I presume he thinks he patronises us because we never belonged to the class that has thrown him off.' ' I should like to do something for him, if I could,
Page 92 - I couldn't endow you with that,' he said sharply, and he turned doggedly to his work. Janet did not quite understand this sarcasm, but she knew that something was wrong with Robert. She saw that, for some reason or other, the visit she had looked forward to with so much hope, and which had given her such delight, had not yet added to her husband's stock of happiness. Robert did not talk any more. He looked up once or twice, and glanced around the room, and at Janet. The room showed very mean and...
Page 79 - Oh, isn't it?' asked Janet, much perplexed ; 'what a pity ! Isn't there anybody who can do anything ? ' ' Yes,' he answered with dignity ; ' I hope I can do something. I mean to try. Leven can do something ; Taxal can do something, in his small way, of course, in his small way. We can hold meetings ; I am going at once to Taxal and to Leven.' The names gave Gabrielle a chance of coming into the conversation which she was rather glad of, for it was clear that Charlton would not enter into it, and...
Page 125 - I don't quite see,' said Gabrielle meditatively, ' is how we are to battle against this conspiracy. Don't think I would have you fail in courage, Miss Elvin, or that I would fail in courage myself. Only, if all these great singers are in a band against us ' — Gabrielle had already made Miss Elvin's cause her own — ' I fear we can hardly do much against them.
Page 70 - ... one whose whole appearance suggests only devotional fervour ; that the remorseless tyrant will have the complexion, the curls, and the hands of a girl ; and so forth. Gabrielle expected, when she heard of Mr. Charlton's jealousy and his masterful love, to see a tall powerful man, with the approved or regulation tawny beard, and all the rest of the gigantic and tyrannical accessories ; but having found this image naturally present itself, she ought to have known that the real man would be the...
Page 73 - Vanthorpe,' said Gabrielle, smiling. ' Mrs. Vanthorpe would like a cup of tea.' Of course Gabrielle took care to say that she wished for a cup of tea above all things. ' You will excuse me, Mrs. Vanthorpe, I hope,' Robert went on, brightening up a little, ' if I seemed to forget your name. Of course, I knew well enough that it was for Mrs. Vanthorpe I was doing the work ; but when I saw you I never thought you were the lady. You look too young to be a married lady. I thought you were Miss Vanthorpe,...