. Bleak house . qually low voice, and with asmile. For Miss Ada Clare. This is the young lady. Miss Sum-merson. His lordship gave me an indulgent look, and acknowledged mycurtsey very graciously. Miss Summerson is not i-elated to any party in the cause, Ithink ? No, my lord. Mr. Kenge leant over before it was quite said, and lordship, with his eyes upon his papers, listened, nodded twiceor thrice, turned over more leaves, and did not look towards meagain, until we were going away. Mr. Kenge now retired, and Richard with him, to where I was,near the door, leaving my pet (it is so
. Bleak house . qually low voice, and with asmile. For Miss Ada Clare. This is the young lady. Miss Sum-merson. His lordship gave me an indulgent look, and acknowledged mycurtsey very graciously. Miss Summerson is not i-elated to any party in the cause, Ithink ? No, my lord. Mr. Kenge leant over before it was quite said, and lordship, with his eyes upon his papers, listened, nodded twiceor thrice, turned over more leaves, and did not look towards meagain, until we were going away. Mr. Kenge now retired, and Richard with him, to where I was,near the door, leaving my pet (it is so natural to me that again Icant help it!) sitting near the Lord Chancellor; with whom hislordship spoke a little apart; asking her, as she told me afterwards,whether she had well reflected on the proposed arrangement, andif she thought she would be happy under the roof of Mr. Jarndyceof Bleak House, and why she thought so ? Presently he rose cour-teously, and released her, and then he spoke for a minute or two ,^. ^ MH>;ii XHE LITTLE OLD LADY. 30 BLEAK HOUSE. with Richard Carstone; not seated, but standing, and altogetherwith more ease and less ceremony — as if he still knew, though hewas Lord Chancellor, how to go straight to the candour of a boy. Very well ! said his lordship aloud. I shall make the Jarndyce of Bleak House has chosen, so far as I may judge,and this was when he looked at me, a very good companion forthe young lady, and the arrangement altogether seems the best ofwhich the circumstances admit. He dismissed us pleasantly, and we all went out, very muchobliged to him for being so affable and polite ; by which he hadcertainly lost no dignity, but seemed to us to have gained some. When we got under the colonnade, Mr. Kenge remembered thathe must go back for a moment, to ask a question; and left us inthe fog, with the Lord Chancellors carriage anil servants waitingfor him to come out. Well! said Richard Carstone, thats over ! And where dowe go
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