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Beauchamp’s Career

CHAPTER XIII
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He is only an unpolished, vexatious man; enormously tall.' Mr.Romfrey ejaculated, 'Ha! humph!' His view of Dr.Shrapnel was taken from that instant.

It was, that this enormously big blustering agitator against the preservation of birds, had behaved rudely toward the lady officially the chief of his household, and might be considered in the light of an adversary one would like to meet.

The size of the man increased his aspect of villany, which in return added largely to his giant size.

Everard Romfrey's mental eye could perceive an attractiveness about the man little short of magnetic; for he thought of him so much that he had to think of what was due to his pacifical disposition (deeply believed in by him) to spare himself the trouble of a visit to Bevisham.
The young gentleman whom he regarded as the Radical doctor's dupe, fell in for a share of his view of the doctor, and Mr.Romfrey became less fitted to observe Nevil Beauchamp's doings with the Olympian gravity he had originally assumed.
The extreme delicacy of Rosamund's conscience was fretted by a remorseful doubt of her having conveyed a just impression of Dr.
Shrapnel, somewhat as though the fine sleek coat of it were brushed the wrong way.

Reflection warned her that her deliberative intensely sincere pause before she responded to Mr.Romfrey's last demand, might have implied more than her words.


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