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`Will you really? Are you strong enough? How nice to be so strong I Are you sure you won’t drop it? So glad to possess you at Limmeridge, Mr Hartright. I am such a sufferer that I hardly dare hope to enjoy much of your society. Would you mind taking great pains not to let […]

`Oblige me — you have been so very good in humouring my poor nerves — oblige me by lifting up a corner of the blind. Don’t let the sun in on me, Mr Hartright! Have you got the blind up? Yes? Then will you be so very kind as to look into the garden and […]

`Pray excuse me. But could you contrive to speak in a lower key? In the wretched state of my nerves, loud sound of any kind is indescribable torture to me. You will pardon an invalid? I only say to you what the lamentable state of my health obliges me to say to everybody. Yes. And […]

If a man’s personal appearance, when he is out of his dressing-room, and when he has passed forty, can be accepted as a safe guide to his time of life — which is more than doubtful — Mr Fairlie’s age, when I saw him, might have been reasonably computed at over fifty and under sixty […]

`I have my master’s orders to show you your own sitting-room, sir,’ said the man, `and to inquire if you approve of the situation and the light.’ I must have been hard to please, indeed, if I had not approved of the room, and of everything about it. The bow-window looked out on the same […]