Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852

THE EARL OF DERBY

MY NOVEL; OR, VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LIFE

AMERICAN MILITARY RECONNOISSANCES

OUR LONDON COMMISSIONER

THE COMMERCIAL DISASTERS OF 1851

THE MOTHER'S LEGACY TO HER UNBORN CHILD

THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY

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The day was fine. Lady Lansmere proposed to walk in the garden. While the ladies went up-stairs for their shawls and bonnets, Harley lighted his cigar, and stept from the window upon the lawn. Lady Lansmere joined him before the girls came out.

"Harley," said she, taking his arm, "what a charming companion you have introduced to us! I never met with any that both pleased and delighted me like this dear Violante. Most girls who possess some power of conversation, and who have dared to think for themselves, are so pedantic, or so masculine; but she is always so simple, and always still the girl. Ah, Harley!"

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"And now," said Harley, whistling to Nero, whom his ward was silently caressing, "I must take Leonard away. Adieu! all of you, till to-morrow at dinner. Miss Violante, is the doll to have blue eyes or black?"

Violante turned her own black eyes in mute appeal to Lady Lansmere, and nestled to that lady's side as if in refuge from unworthy insult.

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