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Jeromes, and said more than once that he owed his life to Miss Arundel. He dwelt a good deal upon this. He asked also a great deal about the Brentham family. They seem the people whom he most affects. When I told him of Lady Corisande's approaching union with the Duke of Brecon, I did not think he half liked it." "But is it settled?"
"Corisande's garden is, since your first visit to Brentham," said the duchess to Lothair. "No flowers are admitted that have not perfume. It is very old-fashioned. You must get her to show it you." It was agreed that after breakfast they should go and see Corisande's garden. And a party did go all the Phoebus family, and Lord and Lady St. Aldegonde, and Lady Corisande, and Bertram, and Lothair.
The ladies began to talk about the approaching drawing-room and Lady Corisande's presentation, and Lothair thought it right to make his obeisance and withdraw. He met in the hall Father Coleman, who was in fact looking after him, and would have induced him to repair to the father's room and hold some interesting conversation, but Lothair was not so congenial as usual.
"She spoke of him always with great respect," said the duchess, "and that is much in a girl of Corisande's disposition. I never heard her speak of any of her admirers in the same tone certainly not of Lord Carisbrooke; I was quite prepared for her rejection of him. She never encouraged him."
They saw little of Lothair, who would willingly have conversed with his friend on many topics, but his friend was almost always engaged, and, if by some chance they succeeded in finding themselves alone, Bertram appeared to be always preoccupied. One day he said to Lothair: "I tell you what, old fellow, if you want to know all about what has happened at home, I will give you Corisande's letters.
Aldegonde had a taste for marriages and public executions, and Lady St. Aldegonde wandered about with Lothair, and pointed out to him Corisande's present to his cousins. "I never was more disappointed than by your family leaving town so early this year," he said. "We were quite surprised." "I am sorry to bear your sister is indisposed." "Corisande! she is perfectly well."
That is my idea of a garden. Corisande's garden is the only sensible thing of the sort." "One likes a mosaic pavement to look like a garden," said Euphrosyne, "but not a garden like a mosaic pavement." "The worst of these mosaic beds," said Madame Phoebus, "is, you can never get a nosegay, and if it were not for the kitchen-garden, we should be destitute of that gayest and sweetest of creations."
"Corisande's is a fine voice," said Lady Montairy, "but I admire her expression more than her tone; for there are certainly many finer voices, and some day you will hear them." "But I prefer expression," said Lothair very decidedly. "Ah, yes! doubtless," said Lady Montairy, who was working a purse, "and that's what we all want, I believe; at least we married daughters, they say.
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