The Countess And Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline 2
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A few minutes exhausting the patience of the party, the conqueror went himself, decked with laurel, to- fetch him from his chamber and after some time, brought him thence, but "in a state that made his obstreporous violence positive cruelt}^ l^ortargis, leaning on his conductor's shoulder, and scarcely able to raise his feet from the floor, entered the room. His countenance w^ould have alarmed timid minds, or sober faculties ; but friends and father agreed that he only wanted rousing ; and to t...his purpose, they applied all their efforts. lie was now urged to takd breakfast ; but he could only throw himself on a chair, and by signs refuse. To his father's mocking enquiries, he could reply no otherwise than by shaking his head, in a way that might have been accepted as re- proach, if it had been understood ; but in ' the true spirit of the thing,' plate on plate was piled before him, with all the miscellany of a fashionable coarse breakfast, whilst his feeble voice, begging forbear- ance, was lost in the rattle of china, and the voci^ ferations of that mirth of fools which has beeu said to make all but themselves melancholy *.
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