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Peels late extraordinary tergiversation on the fatal Catholic Relief Bill, sat dumb amongst the ladies in the grand drawing-room, looking out upon velvet lawns, trim gravel walks, and glistening hot-houses. She seems good-natured but insipid, said Mrs. Rowdy; that Major seems to be particularly épris. She wants ton sadly, said Mrs. Hollyock. My dear creature, you never will be able to form her. She is dreadfully ignorant or indifferent, said Mrs. Glowry with a voice as if from the grave, and a sad shake of the head and turban. I asked her if she thought that it was in 1836, according to Mr. Jowls, or in 1839, according to Mr. Wapshot, that the Pope was to fall: and she saidPoor Pope! I hope notWhat has he done? She is my brothers widow, my dear friends, Mrs. Frederick replied, and as such I think were all bound to give her every attention and instruction on entering into the world. You may fancy there can be no mercenary motives in those whose disappointments are well known. That poor dear Mrs. Bullock, said Rowdy to Hollyock, as they drove away togethershe is always scheming and managing. She wants Mrs. Osbornes account to be taken from our house to hersand the way in which she coaxes that boy and makes him sit by that blear-eyed little Rosa is perfectly ridiculous. I wish Glowry was choked with her Man of Sin and her Battle of Armageddon, cried the other, and the carriage rolled away over Putney Bridge. But this sort of society was too cruelly genteel for Emmy, and all jumped for joy when a foreign tour was proposed. |
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