Littell's Living Age Volume 81 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 Excerpt: ...instructed, very gentlemanlike, certainly very handsome, and unquestionably the nicest of the three young men of the party. Mr. Frederick Falconer was very handsome and very nice too. Captain Ellingham she could sec nothing to like in at all, except his invitation to go on board his ship, which would be charming, as the others were all invited. Kate said, on the contrary, that she had beenmuch pleased with all she had seen of Captain Ellingham; that, of course, as far as liking went, she could not be expected to like him so well as her old friend, Freddy Falconer; and as for Mr. Merriton, he had seemed to her very good-natured, but more like a schoolboy who was a rather girlish one than like a man. And so ended the dinner-party at the Chase. CHAPTER XI. ME. WKBBITON PATS SOME VISITS. What with the talk about the proposed sailing excursion under Captain Ellingham's aus pices, and what with the calamity of the learned canon's brick, nothing had been settled on the evening of the party at the Chaw about the visit of Margaret and her uncle to the Friary. Margaret had been as careful to make her communication to Mr. Merriton on that subject private and confidential as ohe had been, when spoken to by Captain Ellingham respecting the sailing project, to make all present parties to the conversation. 8b- had also avoided saying one word about any such idea to Kate. And her project was to find the means of availing herself of Lady Sempronia's invitation to the house in the Close, and to go with her unole thence to the Friary, So as to have the visit, and the opportunity all to herself. All her scheme was foiled, however, by Mr. Merriton, as is apt to be the case when two parties to an arrangement do not desire precisely the same results from it. Mr. Merriton lik...