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'Very well, Menlove, answered Mrs. Doncastle, as she serenely surveyed her right eyebrow in the glass. 'Am I to take this as a formal notice? 'If you please; but I could stay a week or two beyond the month if suitable. I am going to be married that's what it is, m'm. 'O! I am glad to hear it, though I am sorry to lose you. 'It is Lord Mountclere's valet Mr. Tipman m'm. 'Indeed.
To Neigh the announcement was as the catastrophe of a story already begun, rather than as an isolated wonder. Ethelberta's words had prepared him for something, though the nature of that thing was unknown. 'Chickerel ought not to have kept us in ignorance of this of course he ought not! said Mrs. Doncastle, as soon as they were left alone. 'I don't see why not, replied Mr.
Doncastle did not speak the words; they were not spoken by Neigh: they seemed to float over the room and round the walls, as if originating in some spiritualistic source. Yet Mrs.
When will you dine with us to meet him? I know you will like him. Will Thursday be convenient? Ethelberta stood for a moment reflecting, and reflecting hoped that Mrs. Doncastle had not noticed her momentary perplexity. Crises were becoming as common with her as blackberries; and she had foreseen this one a long time.
Jones, 'I may say that I too noticed the singularity of it. 'If you had not said otherwise, replied Doncastle somewhat warmly, 'I should have asserted him to be the last man-servant in London to infringe such an elementary rule. If he did so this evening, it is certainly for the first time, and I sincerely hope that no annoyance was caused
'But is he not a very extraordinary man? 'Not to my knowledge, said Doncastle, looking up surprised. 'Why do you think that, Alfred? 'Well, perhaps it was not a matter to mention. He reads a great deal, I dare say? 'I don't think so. 'I noticed how wonderfully his face kindled when we began talking about the poems during dinner. Perhaps he is a poet himself in disguise. Did you observe it?
'Let us have your favourite, by all means, said another friend of Ethelberta's who was present Mrs. Doncastle. 'I am so sorry that I cannot oblige you, since you wish to hear it, replied the poetess regretfully; 'but the music is at home. I had not received it when I lent the others to Miss Belmaine, and it is only in manuscript like the rest.
Doncastle, laughing; and the subject then became compounded with other matters, till the speakers rose to rejoin the charming flock upstairs. In the basement story at this hour Mr. Chickerel the butler, who had formed the subject of discussion on the floor above, was busily engaged in looking after his two subordinates as they bustled about in the operations of clearing away.
She stood with her head against the marble slab just below the bust, and began a selected piece, Neigh standing a few yards off on her right looking into his hat in order to listen accurately, Mr. and Mrs. Belmaine and Mrs. Doncastle seating themselves in a pew directly facing the monument.
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