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You have too good an opinion of me my mind is not so well regulated I am much weaker, much sillier, than you imagine than you can conceive," said Belinda. Lady Anne soothed her with the most affectionate expressions, and concluded with saying, "Mr. Vincent has promised not to return from Harrowgate, to torment you with his addresses, if you be absolutely determined against him.
At the name of Belinda Portman, Clarence Hervey became all attention: he assured his lordship that he was in no haste; and all his difficulty now was to moderate the eagerness of his curiosity. "We can take a turn or two in the park, as well as any where," said his lordship: "nobody will overhear us, and the sooner you know what I have to say the better." "Certainly," said Clarence.
She gave Mary Anne presents in the shape of articles of clothing at which Slowbridge would have exclaimed in horror if the recipient had dared to wear them; but, when Miss Belinda expressed her regret at these indiscretions, Octavia was quite willing to rectify her mistakes. "Ah, well!" she said, "I can give her some money, and she can buy some things for herself."
Both those excellent servants delighted to make their mistress happy, and she greatly rejoiced in their devotion and care. Perhaps we had made our plans to visit Upton Court, a charming old house where Pope's Arabella Fermor had passed many years of her married life. On the way thither we would talk over "The Rape of the Lock" and the heroine, Belinda, who was no other than Arabella herself.
'She will have to leave Belton now, I suppose? said Sir Anthony. 'The property will belong to a distant cousin a Mr William Belton. 'And where will she go? said Lady Aylmer. 'I suppose she has no place that she can call her home? 'Would it not be a good thing to ask her here? said Belinda. Such a question as that was very rash on the part of Miss Aylmer.
Hervey, my dear young lady." "Tell me how I can serve him as a friend," said Belinda, colouring deeply. "That you shall know immediately," said Mrs. Delacour, rummaging and rustling for a considerable time amongst a heap of letters, which she had pulled out of the largest pockets that ever woman wore, even in the last century. "Oh, here it is," continued she, opening and looking into them.
"I should think so," responded her ladyship. "Open the carriage-door, Belinda, and let me get out." She felt that this matter must be inquired into at once, and not allowed to go too far. She had ruled Slowbridge too long to allow such innovations to remain uninvestigated. She would not be likely to be "upset," at least. She descended from her landau, with her most rigorous air.
And then Belinda and Becky discovered them, and made for their beloved mistress, and conversation on the picnic or any other topic was at an end. There was a noisy scrambling in the vines outside of Anne's window early on Monday morning, and the little maid opened her eyes to see Belinda's white head peeping over the sill, and Belinda's white paws holding on like grim death to the ledge.
Delacour laughing, "you must positively let me admire you altogether, and love you too, for I cannot help it. Farewell." After the company was gone, Lady Delacour was much surprised by the earnestness with which Belinda pressed the request that they might the next morning pay a visit to Virginia.
If you have any sense or spirit, I have said enough. So adieu! Let me hear, by return of the post, that every thing is going on as it should do. I am impatient to write to your sister Tollemache this good news. I always foretold that my Belinda would marry better than her sister, or any of her cousins, and take place of them all.
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