The Works of George W. M. Reynolds — page 304: what you’re looking at

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COUNT AND COUNTESS OF TOLEDO 287 discourse sparkling, winning, or fascinating, according to her purpose orherhumour. Moreover, the count was proud of his handsome English wife, and a husband’s pride of the object of his choice is in itself a degree of admiration which cannot be inseparable from love. The first two months of their residence near the little French village was happy enough, for, as we have before ob- served, they had just sufficient society to prevent the time from hanging heavily on their hands, and for preventing their mode of existence from appearing monotonous. Juliana rode well on horseback, and she liked to accompany her hus-- band amidst the beautiful scenery of the neighbourhood where they dwelt. They drove out, too, in the phaeton, and in their close carriage they visited occasionally of an evening the few families with whom they had become acquainted. Juliana had written to her mother to mention her marriage, and Lady Saxondale was but too glad to have thus got rid of a daughter whom for some time past she had ceased to love, but toward whom she had been compelled to act with a certain degree of apparent kindness, inasmuch as Juliana was acquainted with the secret of the tremendous imposture in respect to Edmund. It was the month of September when we introduced our reader to the cottage where the Count and Countess of To- ledo are now residing. Their somewhat extravagant mode of life — the purchase of horses and carriages, and the sump- tuousness of the entertainments which they gave, and which, though few, were nevertheless costly in the extreme —- had by this time absorbed the greater portion of the available funds which the count had brought with him from Paris. One day he mentioned to his wife that it would be needful to communicate with his intendant; and as no tidings had been received of any overt measure of a hostile character being adopted toward him, either in the form of proclaimed proscription or of property confiscation, he suggested that it would be as well if he were to pay a secret and stealthy visit to his estate in order to transact personally his business with his steward. Juliana was averse to this project, inas- much as by the mere fact of her husband’s proposing to repair with so much precaution to his domain, it was sufficiently evi- dent he feared to be arrested. He, however, assured her that there was little danger of such a result, as he could rely upon CONnNIELDOOKS (F()