It must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the spine; but Mr Robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles Musgrove began, consequently, to feel no necessity for longer confinement.
Mary knew, from Charles's manner of speaking, that he was quite determined on going, and that it would be of no use to teaze him.
Charles sat between her silent companions, terrified at the course of events, and a little bored.
Charles frowned a little, and turned again to his sister.
"Do you think so, Charles?" said the other simply; "but you see I urged it feebly, for I did not prevail."
At the word loveliness, Julia raised her eyes to his face with a slight blush--it was new language for Charles Weston to use, and it was just suited to her feelings.
None of the men of the neighborhood had dared to join; they stood in the road whispering, and occasionally venturing to laugh at the jests of a couple of tramps who had stopped to see the fun, and who cared nothing for Sir Charles.
I have just had the pleasure of meeting Sir Charles for the first time, and we shall be the best friends possible when I have convinced him that it is hardly fair to seize on a path belonging to the people and compel them to walk a mile and a half round his estate instead of four hundred yards between two portions of it."
[1] "A Modern Artist: Notes on the Work of Charles Strickland," by Edward Leggatt, A.R.H.A.
Maurice Huret in his famous article gave an outline of Charles Strickland's life which was well calculated to whet the appetites of the inquiring.
To any other but the illustrious man who listens to me, I would have said: `My lord, you are poor; my lord, the king offers you this million as an earnest of an immense bargain; take it, and serve Charles II.
You just now spoke of a deposit which the late king transmitted through you to his son -- are you, then, one of those Frenchmen who, as I have heard, endeavored to carry off Charles I.