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Father And Son.
horrid laAV business , dearest , to be got through ; but rely upon it , that Avhat money and energy can accomplish to abridge all that nonsense , shall be done . So do not loiter over your own preparations , for I will not give you an hour to Avaste upon finery . " "As if I cared about finery ! " exclaimed his betrothed
with a playful pout . She Avas rewarded by a look ; and such a look . " You know , " resumed the lady an instant afterwards , " that I understand nothing about business ; so that , Avhile Mr . CraAvford croaks over settlements Avith the lawyers , I shall have little to do but to think of you and the dear old Grange . I declare
that you have made me hate London , and the murky streets , and leaden sky . Why do men build great cities , when they might be so much happier living as we are doing UOAV ?" Nothing could be more apparently natural than such a reflection at such a moment . They were seated beneath a stately tulip-tree on the lawn ; a golden light , like that which
plays upon the surface of the sea when the sun is about to set , flickered among the flexile branches of the flowering shrubs as they bent lovingly to the breeze of evening ; the delicate blossoms of the gum-cistus fell like snow-flakes to the earth ; and a thousand perfumes floated about them as the deAV dropped silently into the open cups of the thirsty flowers , and filled the ah' Avith incense .
Sydney listened with delight to the silvery voice beside him . " And yet all this , lovely as it is , must seem pale and poor beside the glowing magnificence of the tropics , Caroline . " " Perhaps it might to others , " Avas the fond reply , as a pair of briUiant eyes Avere raised to his face , and he felt the clasp of fairy fingers upon his hand ; " but I do not regret my home . HOAV should I , Avhen I have found another at once brighter and dearer ?"
Two dajs afterAvards they parted ; but , before the close of a week , Sydney was in his turn in toAvn , immersed in business , and almost endangering the sanity of the family solicitor by the eagerness of his haste . Then there Avas a new carriage to be built ; jeAvels to be reset ; and a suite of furniture a , la Louis XIV . to replace the less sumptuous fittings of his
mother ' s apartments . Never had Leicester so relentlessly exerted his energies , but he felt neither lassitude nor fatigue ; he was labouring for happiness ; and as he saw case after case despatched to its destination , he began to satisfy himself that all his difficulties Avould ere long be at an end . He was wrong , hoAvever .
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Father And Son.
horrid laAV business , dearest , to be got through ; but rely upon it , that Avhat money and energy can accomplish to abridge all that nonsense , shall be done . So do not loiter over your own preparations , for I will not give you an hour to Avaste upon finery . " "As if I cared about finery ! " exclaimed his betrothed
with a playful pout . She Avas rewarded by a look ; and such a look . " You know , " resumed the lady an instant afterwards , " that I understand nothing about business ; so that , Avhile Mr . CraAvford croaks over settlements Avith the lawyers , I shall have little to do but to think of you and the dear old Grange . I declare
that you have made me hate London , and the murky streets , and leaden sky . Why do men build great cities , when they might be so much happier living as we are doing UOAV ?" Nothing could be more apparently natural than such a reflection at such a moment . They were seated beneath a stately tulip-tree on the lawn ; a golden light , like that which
plays upon the surface of the sea when the sun is about to set , flickered among the flexile branches of the flowering shrubs as they bent lovingly to the breeze of evening ; the delicate blossoms of the gum-cistus fell like snow-flakes to the earth ; and a thousand perfumes floated about them as the deAV dropped silently into the open cups of the thirsty flowers , and filled the ah' Avith incense .
Sydney listened with delight to the silvery voice beside him . " And yet all this , lovely as it is , must seem pale and poor beside the glowing magnificence of the tropics , Caroline . " " Perhaps it might to others , " Avas the fond reply , as a pair of briUiant eyes Avere raised to his face , and he felt the clasp of fairy fingers upon his hand ; " but I do not regret my home . HOAV should I , Avhen I have found another at once brighter and dearer ?"
Two dajs afterAvards they parted ; but , before the close of a week , Sydney was in his turn in toAvn , immersed in business , and almost endangering the sanity of the family solicitor by the eagerness of his haste . Then there Avas a new carriage to be built ; jeAvels to be reset ; and a suite of furniture a , la Louis XIV . to replace the less sumptuous fittings of his
mother ' s apartments . Never had Leicester so relentlessly exerted his energies , but he felt neither lassitude nor fatigue ; he was labouring for happiness ; and as he saw case after case despatched to its destination , he began to satisfy himself that all his difficulties Avould ere long be at an end . He was wrong , hoAvever .