4/12 Lord Vieuxbois, at least can be trusted. He has no liking for low companions. HE is above joking with grooms, and taking country walks with gamekeepers.' It was lucky that it was dark, for Honoria and Argemone both blushed crimson. They have kept him so continually amused, that all my efforts to bring him to a sense of his awful state have been more unavailing than ever.' Poor Mrs.Lavington! She had married, at eighteen, a man far her inferior in intellect; and had become--as often happens in such cases--a prude and a devotee. The squire, who really admired and respected her, confined his disgust to sly curses at the Methodists (under which name he used to include every species of religious earnestness, from Quakerism to that of Mr.Newman). |