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That is her determination. The school will be a very large one, and I am going to-day to meet Miss Delacour at Ardshiel in order to see what improvements are necessary. Oh, dear, dear old boy, if I could remove that frown from your brow! 'You can't, Cecilia; so don't try. I am worsted by two women, the fate of most men. I am very unhappy. I don't pretend to be anything else.
"Ceremony sets no value upon affection, and therefore would not desire to be paid with it," said Belinda. "Never yet," continued lady Delacour, pursuing the train of her own thoughts without attending to Belinda, "never yet was any thing like real affection won by any of these ceremonious people."
Horton's; he has been very generous to the poor people who suffered by the fire, and he is now consulting with Mrs. Delacour, who has an estate adjoining to Mr. Horton's, about her tenants, whose houses in the village were burnt. Now I have, in as few words and parentheses as possible, told you all I know of Mr. Hartley's history; but your curiosity still looks voracious."
Miss Portman at first imagined that Lady Delacour dreaded the discovery of her cosmetic secrets, but her ladyship's rouge was so glaring, and her pearl powder was so obvious, that Belinda was convinced there must be some other cause for this toilette secrecy.
You must be sensible that I could not endure to have it whispered 'Lady Delacour now sets up for being a prude, because she can no longer be a coquette. Lady Delacour would become the subject of witticisms, epigrams, caricatures without end. It would just be the very thing for Mrs. Luttridge; then she would revenge herself without mercy for the ass and her panniers.
The reading party went on, and Lady Delacour made her appearance as the company were drinking orgeat, between the fourth and fifth act. "Helena, my dear," said she, "will you bring me a glass of orgeat?" Clarence Hervey looked at Belinda with a congratulatory smile: "do not you think," whispered he, "that we shall succeed? Did you see that look of Lady Delacour's?"
I'm quite ready; and Hollyhock stamped up to the good lady with clenched fists and angry, black eyes. 'Oh, preserve me from this little terror of a girl! said Miss Delacour. 'I perceive that the Divine Providence has sent me here just in time. 'You haven't met the Precious Stones yet, said Hollyhock.
"And mine, so much," said Lady Anne, "that I cannot believe such a being to exist in the world notwithstanding all the descriptions I have heard of it: as you say, my dear Mrs. Delacour, it passes my powers of imagination. Let us leave it in Mr.
"Nanine, or La Prude, which shall we have?" said Lady Delacour: "or what do you think of L'Ecossaise?" "The scene of L'Ecossaise is laid in London," said Belinda; "I should think with an English audience it would therefore be popular." "Yes! so it will," said Lady Delacour: "then let it be L'Ecossaise.
Don't waken her," said Lady Delacour, putting her finger on her lips; and walking slowly out of the room, she forbade Belinda to follow. "If my fears be vain," said she, "why should I disturb you with them? If they be just, you will hear my bell ring, and then come to me." For some time afterward all was perfectly silent in the house.
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