Kenelm Chillingly, Book 3.
ght she discovered much latent gentleness under the cold and mournful gravity of its expression; and, attributing the silence he maintained to
summer weather, Mr. Chillingly. I believe such pedestrian exercises
goes. It is only a tame dog that one finds on the road travelling by himself; and th
I hear, that you have not be
not a mad one. But pardon me: we are nearing the marquee;
Cecilia's ar
garden-bench. "I have no engagement for the next dance, an
r stretching himself on the rack, took his
college with
w
ought clev
ot a doub
ction. My father takes a warm interest in his success,
re in debate; at the end of those years he will be an under-secretary; in five years more he will be a Cabinet Minister, and the representative of an important section of opinions; he will be an irreproachable private character, and his wife will be seen wearing the family d
with which Kenelm delivered these oracular sentences, and the whole prediction seemed stra
r. Chillingly?" she asked, f
whose hand you could c
tell me my
And when we believe such and such is to be our fate, we are too apt to work out our life into the verification of t
eerful fortune than that tragical ill
e question. Mr. Gray is too good a poet for people to read nowadays, o
all arou
ters of h
sfortune's b
here is no cloud over the summer stars; our conscience is clear; our hearts untroubled: why
Mr. Chillingly, I wish to impress on you the moral fact that one good turn deserves another. I have yielded to your w
studied with squires no less than with farmers; besides, he had taken a liking to Travers. That graceful /ci-devant/ Wild
ion. Would the middle
e better. Why
That may occupy two or three days, and meanwhile I must wri
y day yo
ree
, hark! the
too fleeting period of the modern world; with the nobles and wits of Paris, when Paris had wits and nobles; with Moliere and the warm-hearted Duke who is said to have been the original of Moliere's Misanthrope; with Madame de Sevigne and the Racin
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