Venetia, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1858 |
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abbey affection affectionate agitated amused beautiful Beruna brother chair chamber CHAPTER Charles Fox charming Cher Cherbury child cloisters companion countenance daugh daughter dear dear Doctor dinner Doctor Masham durcis emotion entered Eton excited exclaimed eyes fancy father feelings fond gipsy hall hand happy heard heart hope hour inquired kind Lady Annabel Lady Monteagle ladyship length light lips little lord live looked Lord Cadurcis Lord Monteagle lordship mamma Marmion Herbert Marringhurst marry mind Miss Venetia Mistress Paunce Mistress Pauncefort Morgana morning Morpeth mother mystery nabel netia never night opinions painful parent passion perhaps petty treason Plantagenet Pole pony Postilion quitted replied Venetia returned scarcely scene seated seemed servant sighed silent smile smock-frock society sorrow Southport speak spirit Squire Mountmeadow strange sure sweet thought tion tone unhappy Venetia Herbert voice walk Weymouth wish woman young
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Page 111 - have continued urging the usual topics of coarse and common-place consolation; but Cadurcis only answered with a sigh that came from the bottom of his heart, and said with streaming eyes, "Ah! Mrs. Pauncefort, God had only given me one friend in this world, and there she lies.
Page 207 - manhood to secure the respect and independence which would scarcely have been paid or permitted to his years. From an early period he never permitted himself to be treated as a boy; and his guardian, a man whose whole soul was concentred in the world, humoured a bent which he approved and from which he augured
Page 32 - shall have that pony you wanted; I am sure I can manage it: I did not think I could." As Lady Annabel thought it was as well that the mother and the son should not be immediately thrown together after this storm, she very kindly proposed that they should remain, and pass the day at
Page 66 - of her son, and that he should not leave the house in such unseasonable weather. If he resisted, she fell into one of her jealous rages, and taunted him with loving strangers better than his own mother. Cadurcis, on the whole, behaved very well; he thought of Lady Annabel's injunctions, and restrained his passion. Yet
Page 317 - better to meet thus quietly. Then they parted with affectionate cordiality on both sides; the Earl enchanted to find delightful companions where he was half afraid he might only meet tiresome relatives; Lady Annabel proud of her brother, and gratified by his kindness; and Venetia anxious to ascertain whether all her relations were as charming
Page 23 - Oh! Plantagenet can be good if he likes, I can assure you, Lady Annabel; and behave as properly as any little boy I know. Plantagenet, my dear, speak. Have not I always told you, when you pay a visit, that you should open your mouth now and then. I don't like
Page 231 - than this year. Although he was to play the host, Cadurcis would not deprive himself of his usual visit to the hall; and he appeared there at an early hour to accompany his guests, who were to ride over to the abbey, to husband all their energies for their long rambles through the demesne.
Page 242 - to believe that care or sorrow, or the dominion of dark or ungracious passions, could ever disturb sympathies so complete and countenances so radiant. At the urgent request of Cadurcis, Venetia sang to them; and while she sang, the expression of her countenance and voice harmonizing with the arch hilarity of the subject,
Page 143 - the couch, gave a faint shriek, half genuine, half affected, as she recognised the recumbent form of her young mistress. "Well to be sure," exclaimed Mistress Pauncefort, "was the like ever seen! Miss Venetia, as I live! La! Miss Venetia, what can be the matter? I declare I am all of a palpitation.
Page 193 - to dwell upon, and which greatly balanced those sentiments of refuge and repose, of peace and love, with which the old hall, in her mind, was heretofore connected. Venetia ever adopted the slightest intimations of a wish on the part of her mother, and so she readily agreed to fall into the arrangement.