Mrs. Oliphant
A Widow's Tale: And Other Stories
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(Forgotten Books May 7, 2017)
Excerpt from A Widow's Tale: And Other Stories
This opinion Miss Bampton, who was a great genealogist, had stated over and over again, but without producing any conviction in her hearers. Her father asked hastily what they had to do with Fitzroy that they shoul'd insist On knowing to whom he belonged. And May turned round upon her little, much too high, heel and laughed. What did she care who he was? He had a delightful baritone, which went beautifully with her own soprano. He was very nice-looking. He had been a great deal abroad, and his manners were beautiful, with none of the stiffness of English manners. He did not stand and stare like Bertie Harcourt, or push between a girl and anything she wanted like the new curate. He knew exactly how to steer between these two extremes, to be always serviceable without being offieious, and to insinuate a delightful compliment without say ing it right out. This was May's opinion of the matter: and then he had such a delightful_ voice. So that this stranger had come into the very front of affairs at Bampton Leigh, to the disturbance of the general balance Of society, and of many matters much more important than an agreeable visitor, which were going on there. For example, Bertie Harcourt had almost been banished from the house and he was a young squire of the neighbourhood with a good estate and very serious intentions; while the spencer-jacksons, with whom Mr Fitzroy was staying, weie not above half pleased to have their novelty, their new man, abso1bed in this way. Mrs spencer-jackson was a lively young woman who liked to have a cavalier on hand, whom she could lend, so to speak, to a favourite girl as a partner, whether at carpet dance or picnic, and dispose of according to her pleasure - an arrangement which Mr Fitzroy had much interfered with by devoting himself to bampton-leigh.
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This opinion Miss Bampton, who was a great genealogist, had stated over and over again, but without producing any conviction in her hearers. Her father asked hastily what they had to do with Fitzroy that they shoul'd insist On knowing to whom he belonged. And May turned round upon her little, much too high, heel and laughed. What did she care who he was? He had a delightful baritone, which went beautifully with her own soprano. He was very nice-looking. He had been a great deal abroad, and his manners were beautiful, with none of the stiffness of English manners. He did not stand and stare like Bertie Harcourt, or push between a girl and anything she wanted like the new curate. He knew exactly how to steer between these two extremes, to be always serviceable without being offieious, and to insinuate a delightful compliment without say ing it right out. This was May's opinion of the matter: and then he had such a delightful_ voice. So that this stranger had come into the very front of affairs at Bampton Leigh, to the disturbance of the general balance Of society, and of many matters much more important than an agreeable visitor, which were going on there. For example, Bertie Harcourt had almost been banished from the house and he was a young squire of the neighbourhood with a good estate and very serious intentions; while the spencer-jacksons, with whom Mr Fitzroy was staying, weie not above half pleased to have their novelty, their new man, abso1bed in this way. Mrs spencer-jackson was a lively young woman who liked to have a cavalier on hand, whom she could lend, so to speak, to a favourite girl as a partner, whether at carpet dance or picnic, and dispose of according to her pleasure - an arrangement which Mr Fitzroy had much interfered with by devoting himself to bampton-leigh.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
- ISBN
- 1330541200 / 9781330541203
- Pages
- 460
- Weight
- 22.4 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.9 in.
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