[Miss Bretherton by Mrs. Humphry Ward]@TWC D-Link bookMiss Bretherton CHAPTER V 34/67
'Do you generally find my enthusiasms cool down ?' 'You are as constant as you are kind,' said Forbes, bowing to her; 'I am only like a child who sighs to see a pleasure nearing its highest point, lest there should be nothing so good afterwards.' 'Nothing so good!' she said, 'and I have only had one little drive through the streets.
Mr.Wallace, are you and Mrs.Stuart really going to forbid me sight-seeing ?' 'Of course!' said Wallace emphatically.
'That's one of the fundamental rules of the society.
Our charter would be a dead letter if we let you enter a single college on your way to the river to-day.' 'The only art, my dear Isabel,' said Mrs.Stuart, 'that you will be allowed to study to-day, will be the art of conversation.' 'And a most fatiguing one, too!' exclaimed Forbes; 'it beats sight-seeing hollow.
But, my dear Miss Bretherton, Kendal and I will make it up to you.
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