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. 1893 Excerpt: ...now that, instead of returning to India, he was to leave the army and marry. His health was still an anxiety, and he was not quite so manageable as his mother wished, either on that subject or others. He did not complain of his fate, it was true; but his mother, at least, was never allowed to forget that he had been ...
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ...now that, instead of returning to India, he was to leave the army and marry. His health was still an anxiety, and he was not quite so manageable as his mother wished, either on that subject or others. He did not complain of his fate, it was true; but his mother, at least, was never allowed to forget that he had been "trapped" into his engagement. Always a spoilt child, he felt that here he had the whip hand over his mother. The whole arrangement was hers. She might have the credit of it; but if there was any blame, anything to regret, anything unsatisfactory, the responsibility for that also would fall on her. Mrs. Nugent took all this calmly enough, having gained her chief end, a good marriage for Arthur. She was a little hurt sometimes by his tone, which lacked something of its old amiability: but she had far too much good sense to make this anything of a real grievance. As long as Poppy and her aunt were with them, both in Paris and London, Arthur's under-current of discontent seemed too absurd, too boyish, to want any serious consideration at all. When he was with Poppy, the object of her first and most unmistakable devotion, not a shadow ever crossed his face. His manner to her was irreproachable. It was hardly possible to believe him in earnest when he tossed impatiently away from some remark or question of his mother's, with a sudden cloud on his fair brow, a sudden muttered exclamation of this kind, "Everything's an infernal bore!" "Are not you ashamed, Arthur?" "Well, it's your doing." Mrs. Nugent wished that the marriage could have been hurried on, could have taken place even before Christmas; but this was not easy to arrange. First, it was nobody's wish but her own; and then there was much business to be de...
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