[Bleak House by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBleak House CHAPTER XVIII 30/36
It was not fright.
Why should I be frightened! "I believe," said Lady Dedlock to my guardian, "I have the pleasure of speaking to Mr.Jarndyce." "Your remembrance does me more honour than I had supposed it would, Lady Dedlock," he returned. "I recognized you in church on Sunday.
I am sorry that any local disputes of Sir Leicester's--they are not of his seeking, however, I believe--should render it a matter of some absurd difficulty to show you any attention here." "I am aware of the circumstances," returned my guardian with a smile, "and am sufficiently obliged." She had given him her hand in an indifferent way that seemed habitual to her and spoke in a correspondingly indifferent manner, though in a very pleasant voice.
She was as graceful as she was beautiful, perfectly self-possessed, and had the air, I thought, of being able to attract and interest any one if she had thought it worth her while.
The keeper had brought her a chair on which she sat in the middle of the porch between us. "Is the young gentleman disposed of whom you wrote to Sir Leicester about and whose wishes Sir Leicester was sorry not to have it in his power to advance in any way ?" she said over her shoulder to my guardian. "I hope so," said he. She seemed to respect him and even to wish to conciliate him.
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