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Tales of Fashionable Life (3); Manoeuvring
Tales of Fashionable Life Manoeuvring - 3 Author:Maria Edgeworth Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1813 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Johnson Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General History / Europe / Ireland Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Social Science / Women's Studies Notes: This is ... more »a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. " I shall in all my best obey you, Madam." Hamlet. ' Did you meet Miss Hunter, my dear son?" said she. " Yes, ma'am, I just passed the carriage in the avenue -- She is going home, is not she ?" said he, rather in a tone of satisfaction. " Ah, poor thing! yes," said Mrs. Beaumont, in a most pathetic tone -- " Ah, poor thing !" " Why, ma'am, what has happened to her ? What's the matter ?" " Matter! O nothing. -- Did I say that any thing was the matter ?" " Don't speak so loud," whispered she, " your groom heard every word we said; stay till he is out of hearing, and then we can talk." " I don't care if all the world hears what I say," cried Mr. Beaumont hastily : but, as if suppressing his rising indignation, he, with a milder look and tone, added, " I cannot conceive, my dear mother, why you are always so afraid of being overheard." " Servants, my dear, make such mischief, you know, by misunderstanding and misrepresenting every thing they hear; and they repeat things so oddly, and raise such strange reports !" " True -- very true indeed, ma'am," said Mr. Beaumont. " You are quite right, and I beg pardon for being so hasty -- I wish you could teach me a little of your patience and prudence." " Prudence! Ah ! my dear Edward, 'tis only time and sad experience of the world can teach that to people of our open tempers. I was at your age tent...« less