The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Julius.
"_You_ would, but--My boy, I suppose this is the right view for a clergyman, but it will never do to force it here. You will lose all influence if you are over-strained." "Was St. Chrysostom over-strained about the hippodrome?" said Julius, thoughtfully. Mrs. Poynsett looked at him as he leant upon the chimney-piece. Here was another son gone, in a different way, beyond her reach. She had seen comparatively little of him since his University days; and though always a good and conscientious person, there had been nothing to draw her out of secular modes of thought; nor had she any connection with the clerical world, so that she had not, as it were, gone along with the tone of mind that she had perceived in him. He did not return to the subject, and they were soon joined by his elder brother. At the first opportunity after dinner, Frank got Rosamond up into a corner with a would-be indifferent "So you met Miss Vivian. What did you think of her?" Rosamond's intuition saw what she was required to think, and being experienced in raving brothers, she praised the fine face and figure so as to find the way to his heart. "I am so glad you met her in that way. Even Julius must be convinced. Was not he delighted?" "I think she grew upon him." |
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