There was, alas! some truth about the London lady. Frank had taken his degree, as arranged, and had then gone abroad for the winter, doing the fashionable things, going up the Nile, crossing over to Mount Sinai, thenbsp;over the long dert to Jerusalem, and home by Damascus, Beyrout, and stantinople, bringing babsp;a long beard, a red cap, and a chibook, just as our fathers ud to go through Italy and Switzerland, and our grandfathers to spend a ason in Paris. He had then remained for a couple of months in London, going through all the society whibsp;the de Courbsp;were able to open to him. And it was true that a certain belle of the ason, of that ason and some others, had been captivated--for the tenth time--by the silken sheen of his long beard. Frank had probably been more demonstrative, perhaps even more susceptible, than he should have been; and hehe rumour, which had all too willingly been forwarded to Greshamsbury.
But young Gresham had also met another lady in London, namely Miss Dunstable. Mary would indeed have been grateful to Miss Dunstable, could she have known all that lady did for her. Frank''s love was never allowed to flag. When he spoke of the difficulties in his way, she twitted him by being overe by straws; and told him that no one was worth having who was afraid of every lion that he met in his path. When he spoke of money, she bade him earn it; and always ended by to smooth for him any real difficulty which want of means might put in his way.
There was, alas! some truth about the London lady. Frank had taken his degree, as arranged, and had then gone abroad for the winter, doing the fashionable things, going up the Nile, crossing over to Mount Sinai, thenbsp;over the long dert to Jerusalem, and home by Damascus, Beyrout, and stantinople, bringing babsp;a long beard, a red cap, and a chibook, just as our fathers ud to go through Italy and Switzerland, and our grandfathers to spend a ason in Paris. He had then remained for a couple of months in London, going through all the society whibsp;the de Courbsp;were able to open to him. And it was true that a certain belle of the ason, of that ason and some others, had been captivated--for the tenth time--by the silken sheen of his long beard. Frank had probably been more demonstrative, perhaps even more susceptible, than he should have been; and hehe rumour, which had all too willingly been forwarded to Greshamsbury.
But young Gresham had also met another lady in London, namely Miss Dunstable. Mary would indeed have been grateful to Miss Dunstable, could she have known all that lady did for her. Frank''s love was never allowed to flag. When he spoke of the difficulties in his way, she twitted him by being overe by straws; and told him that no one was worth having who was afraid of every lion that he met in his path. When he spoke of money, she bade him earn it; and always ended by to smooth for him any real difficulty which want of means might put in his way.