"I could proffer much: I feel I could urge it plausibly. She
must be very wretched. With such a form, such high
imaginings, such thoughts of power and pomp as I could breathe
in her,--I think she'd melt. And to one of her own faith,
too! To build up a great Catholic house again; of the old
blood, and the old names, and the old faith,--by holy Mary it
is a glorious vision!"
Book 4 Chapter 11
On the evening of the day that Egremont had met Sybil in the
Abbey of Westminster, and subsequently parted from her under
circumstances so distressing, the Countess of Marney held a
great assembly at the family mansion in St James" Square,
which Lord Marney had intended to have let to a new club, and
himself and his family to have taken refuge for a short season
at an hotel, but he drove so hard a bargain that before the
lease was signed, the new club, which mainly consisted of an
ingenious individual who had created himself secretary, had
vanished. Then it was agreed that the family mansion should
be inhabited for the season by the family; and to-night
Arabella was receiving all that great world of which she
herself was a distinguished ornament.
"We come to you as early as possible my dear Arabella," said
Lady Deloraine to her daughter-in-law.
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