If you want to see divils carnal,
there's your time of day. They're no less than heathens, I be
sure. I'd be sorry to see even our butty among them, for he
is a sort of a Christian when he has taken a glass of ale."
Book 3 Chapter 2
Two days after the visit of Egremont to the cottage of Walter
Gerard, the visit of the Marney family to Mowbray terminated,
and they returned to the Abbey.
There is something mournful in the breaking up of an agreeable
party, and few are the roofs in which one has sojourned, which
are quitted without some feeling of depression. The sudden
cessation of all those sources of excitement which pervade a
gay and well arranged mansion in the country, unstrings the
nervous system. For a week or so, we have done nothing which
was not agreeable, and heard nothing which was not pleasant.
Our self-love has been respected; there has been a total
cessation of petty cares; all the enjoyment of an
establisnment without any of its solicitude. We have beheld
civilization only in its favoured aspect, and tasted only the
sunny side of the fruit. Sometimes there are associations
with our visit of a still sweeter and softer character, but on
these we need not dwell: glances that cannot be forgotten, and
tones that linger in the ear; sentiment that subdues the soul,
and flirtation that agitates the fancy.
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