Emilia Wyndham (Volume 2) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1852. Excerpt: ... so great a change might produce upon his state of mind. Her uncle took care to let her know that her father was to vacate the Oaks when she did. So Mr. Danby set out for London, to make his arrangements with his mother, and prepare a home wherein to lodge the treasure he had obtained. CHAPTER IV. Querelleuse, avare, etjalouse Rien ne la contontoit, rien n'e"toit comme il faut. La Fontaine. They are sitting together in that parlour, or drawing-room, if you will, in Charlotte Street, which I have before described: the son, with rather rueful and abashed looks, his dress more in disorder than ever, and his feet upon the little fender, is listening to the exclamations and shrill vituperations of his excited mother. The old lady is sitting in the usual arm-chair, and, according to custom, without the slightest symptom of employment of any kind about her, screaming rather than speaking, with voice harsh and discordant as that of a cockatoo. Her son is too much vexed to be amused, and yet half inclined to be sorry, and to think that she is in the right -- at least, that she has quite a right to the relief which she is giving herself under her present distraction and surprise -- though not the least in the world inclined to undo what he has done. "Such folly such madness such blind and wilful extravagance such unaccountable and unheard-of weakness such ruin such -- lack-a-day And could I ever have thought it? And oh your poor father and how we slaved and now it is all gone all flung away upon a pretty, well-dressed, beggarly minx You might as well have thrown it into the kennel. Oh if your father could have known, would he have worked as he did? Yes, young man, from morning to night in his chambers, hardly allowing himself food or rest to save -- and all for what? to have it giv...