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Im quite ready to admit my mistake, and itwas the wrong kind of charity. Hes
still alive down there and making people do as hedid.
They were happy people,
and I like happiness. And he looked up through the canopy of floweringchestnuts
to the June sky. But Giffendid not respond except with a smile; he had probably
never heard ofLord Falkland.
Tooclever, and a little too much of the wise
youth. Baize-covered table andraw-wood shelves had disappeared.
IIAdam Melfort
began his new life in a kind of daze.
We are overstocked with girls inthese
parts.
We have settled down marvellously, she told him. He once told me that
this countryside in June made him sad. I daresay Camilla mayhave outrun the
constable. Lely would have found him a fitsubject, though he might have boggled
at his lean hands. It isntlarge, but it takes a lot of looking after. He nodded
towardsthe linen-fold panelling and the great carven chimney-piece. Theres
thehouse and the garden, and the home-farm and the property.
It may have been
malicious, but I said something about thewonderful scheme of village education.
The trouble was that theydid not know how to die.
You mustnt think that Ursula
and I takein that stuff for ourselves.
It was all around me: theivory
panelling, the olive-wood staircase, the lovely pillaredhall. I cant think how
I ever could stickthat place. Its the motive I cant get at, said the lawyer. It
may have been malicious, but I said something about thewonderful scheme of
village education.
The long, curled wigframed a delicate face, with something
of the grace of youth leftto it. Its the motive I cant get at, said the
lawyer.
Giffen would have had us change into dry things, but Leithenpleaded a
waiting dinner at Borrowby.
You say he was wrapt up inhis career, but I never
saw anyone face a crash more coolly. Even whenthere is nobody staying in the
house I find every hour occupied.
My mind was busy with surmises as we rode up
the avenue. God knows how he ever came to be attracted by her! Queer thing,but
ever since I left Cambridge I have been out of the mood forthem.
A woman
entered the room, a woman who might have been pretty if shehad taken a little
pains.
Weve both fallenso deep in love with Fullcircle that we wanted to see
the man whoconceived it.
At the eastern end stood a littlealtar, with above it
a copy of a Correggio Madonna.
I daresay Camilla mayhave outrun the
constable.
I wish you had seen himwhen he heard the sentence.
Only those who
fell in love withit could know its mastery, for all love exacts a price.
Cant
build, you know, for theyobject to all tools, but very ready to crab.
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