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As to Captain Lydgate himself, his lo, his aquiline nose bent on

one side, and his rather heavy utterance, entleive him what is doted on by some flower-like blond

heads as "style" He had,free froentility, and he was a great critic of fehted in his adham, and he found it easy to spend several hours of the day in

flirting with her The visit altogether was one of the pleasantest

larks he had ever had, not the less so perhaps because he suspected

that his queer cousin Tertius wished hiate, who

would rather (hyperbolically speaking) have died than have failed in

polite hospitality, suppressed his dislike, and only pretended

generally not to hear what the gallant officer said, consigning the

task of answering him to Rosamond For he was not at all a jealous

husband, and preferred leaving a feather-headed young gentle him company

"I wish you would talk more to the Captain at dinner, Tertius," said

Rosaone to Loamford to

see some brother officers stationed there "You really look so absent

so behind

it, instead of looking at him"