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One of Our Conquerors
to maul her character, perhaps instructing the gossips to
murmur of her parentage. Nesta Victoria Fenellan had the
husband who would have the world respectful to any brave
woman. This one was his wife.
Daniel Skepsey rejoices in service to his new master, owing
to the scientific opinion he can at any moment of the
day apply for, as to the military defences of the country;
instead of our attempting to arrest the enemy by vociferations
of persistent prayer:—the sole point of difference between
him and his Matilda; and it might have been fatal but
that Nesta’s intervention was persuasive. The two members
of the Army first in the field to enrol and give rank according
to the merits of either, to both sexes, were made one.
Colney Durance (practically cynical when not fancifully, men
said) stood by Skepsey at the altar. His published exercises in
Satire produce a flush of the article in the Reviews of his
books. Meat and wine in turn fence the Hymen beckoning
Priscilla and Mr. Pempton. The forms of Religion more than
the Channel’s division of races keep Louise de Seilles and
Mr. Peridon asunder: and in the uniting of them Colney is
interested, because it would have so pleased the woman of
the loyal heart no longer beating. He let Victor’s end be his
expiation and did not phrase blame of him. He considered
the shallowness of the abstract Optimist exposed enough in
Victor’s history. He was reconciled to it when, looking on
their child, he discerned, that for a cancelling of the errors
chargeable to them, the father and mother had kept faith
with Nature.
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