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Ernest Linwood

CHAPTER XIV
19/26

Richard, you trouble me very much by your strange way of talking.

You have no idea how you have made my head ache.
Please speak of common subjects, for I would not meet Mrs.Linwood so troubled, so agitated, for any consideration.

See how beautiful the sunlight falls is the lawn! How graceful that white cloud floats down the golden west! As Wilson says:-- 'Even in its very motion there is rest.'" "Yes! the sunlight is very beautiful, and the cloud is very graceful, and you are beautiful and graceful in your dawning coquetry, the more so because you know it not.

Well--obedience to-day, reward to-morrow, Gabriella.

That was one of my old copies at the academy." "I remember another, which was a favorite of Mr.Regulus-- 'To-morrow never yet On any human being rose and set.'" A few more light repartees, and we were at Mrs.Linwood's gate.
"You will not come in ?" said I, half asserting, half interrogating.
"To be sure I will.


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