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Good-hearted beings! added Lady Dashfort, marking a cloud gathering on Lord Colambre's countenance. 'I laugh at them, because I love them. I could not love anything I might not laugh at your lordship excepted. So you'll come that's settled. And so it was settled. Our hero went to Killpatrickstown.
I cannot believe it to be possible, that any gentleman, that any officer, could do such a thing! said the count. 'And is this all? exclaimed Lady Dashfort. 'Is this all the terrible affair, my good count, which has brought your face to this prodigious length? The count looked at Lady Dashfort with astonishment.
'Oh, my dear lord, continued Lady Dashfort; 'I am perfectly aware that she did take and bear the name of Reynolds; but that was not her maiden name her maiden name was; but perhaps it is a family secret that has been kept, for some good reason from you, and from the poor girl herself; the maiden name was St. Omar, depend upon it.
But it was not of prayers and deathbed affairs I came commissioned to treat not of burials, which Heaven above forbid, but of weddings my diplomacy was to speak; and to premise my Lady Dashfort would have come herself in her carriage, but is hurried out of her senses, and my Lady Isabel could not in proper modesty; so they sent me as their DOUBLE to hope you, my dear Mr.
James' too is quite a convert, and I hear the Duke of V takes it too. 'And the devil may take it too, for anything that I care, said old Reynolds. 'Oh, my dear, dear sir! you are so refractory a patient. 'I am no patient at all, ma'am, and have no patience either; I am as well as you are, or my Lady Dashfort either, and hope, God willing, long to continue so. Mrs.
The bon-mots of the mother were every where repeated; the dress and air of the daughter every where imitated. Yet Lord Colambre could not help being surprised at their popularity in Dublin, because, independently of all moral objections, there were causes of a different sort, sufficient, he thought, to prevent Lady Dashfort from being liked by the Irish, indeed by any society.
"I declare you know nothing of the future," interrupted Lady Dashfort, in a half peremptory, half playful tone "you know nothing: make no rash vows, and you will break none." The undaunted assurance of Lady Dashfort's genius for intrigue gave her an air of frank imprudence, which prevented Lord Colambre from suspecting that more was meant than met the ear.
"My dear Heathcock, are you alive still?" said Lady Dashfort: "I had really forgotten your existence." So had Count O'Halloran, but he did not say so. "Your ladyship has the advantage of me there," said Heathcock, stretching himself; "I wish I could forget my existence, for, in my mind, existence is a horrible bore." "I thought you was a sportsman," said Williamson. "Well, sir?"
This officer, it was said, had let Lady Oranmore send her carriage for this woman; and that she had dined at Oranmore with her ladyship and her daughters. "But I cannot believe it! I cannot believe it to be possible, that any gentleman, that any officer could do such a thing!" said the count. "And is this all?" exclaimed Lady Dashfort.
Poor fellow! he has never lost his taste for the good company to which he was early accustomed. As to the rest, said he, turning to Lady Dashfort, 'a mouse, a bird, and a fish, are, you know, tribute from earth, air, and water, for my conqueror 'But from no barbarous Scythian! said Lord Colambre, smiling.
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