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"For once I have escaped, you see," she said, without turning round. "They will not venture into the night air. Sometimes I think they will drive me mad Isabella and Georgina." "Mary!" cried a shrill voice from the drawing-room, "how can you be so imprudent! John, how can you allow her!" John stepped back to the window. "It is very mild," he said. "Lady Mary likes the air."
Poor Lucy was left with the younger girls, and was no doubt very unhappy. But she was still indignant, and would yield nothing. When Georgina, the fourth daughter, pointed out to her that, in accordance with all rules of good breeding, she should have abstained from asserting that her brother had spoken an untruth, she blazed up again. "It was untrue," she said.
Barbara welcomed him when he first came because he seemed to want to talk about Justin as much as she desired to hear. Later she welcomed him for his own sake, and grew to depend upon him for counsel and encouragement. Most of all she appreciated his affectionate interest in Georgina. If he had been her own grandfather he could not have taken greater pride in her little accomplishments.
Belle must be spared no matter what happens." At the bringing of her own name into the story Belle gave a perceptible start and a tinge of red crept into her pale cheeks. "Did he say that, Georgina?" she demanded, leaning forward and looking at her intently. "Are you sure those are his exact words?" "His very-own-exactly-the-same words," declared Georgina solemnly.
During the reign of that domesticated paterfamilias a slight exception, it is true, occurred in the instance of Georgina Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire. Young, beautiful, amiable, and witty, and not altogether free from coquetry, she reckoned amongst her admirers some of the most distinguished men of that day.
He was flattered at the comparison, he was ambitious enough not to be frightened at it, and he guessed that she perceived a certain analogy between herself and the Empress Josephine. She would make a very good empress. That was true; Georgina was remarkably imperial.
Between the porringer, which obliged her to be a little lady, and the powder horn, which obliged her to be brave, even while she shivered, some times Georgina felt that she had almost too much to live up to. There were times when she was sorry that she had ancestors.
He stayed on and fought the dragon, and wounded it, and bound it with the maiden's sash and led it into the market place where it was finally killed. And the people were forever freed from the terrible monster because of his prowess. Do you remember all that?" Again Georgina nodded. She knew the story well.
If he was pleased to see that his false love's path was not entirely rose-bestrewn, or if he rejoiced at beholding the occasional annoyance of his rival, he allowed no evidence of his pleasure to appear in his face or manner. Georgina Cradock's rather insipid prettiness had developed into matronly comeliness. Her fair complexion and pink cheeks had lost none of their freshness.
I did my best to make her understand how very unlikely it was that any man, noble or otherwise, would care to marry a girl with carroty hair." "I doubt if you succeeded in convincing her, Georgina, though you spoke pretty plain, and I am very far from blaming you for it.
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