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The tune was a rollicking air he had heard at some music-hall; and, by way of a diversion, he asked her if she knew the composition. 'No, I don't! she replied. 'Now, I'll tell you all about it, said he gravely. 'It is based on a sound old melody called "The Jilt's Hornpipe."
"Ay, Mrs. Stanhope's maid, was not it?" interrupted Mrs. Margaret Delacour. "A pretty damsel she was, and almost as good a politician as her mistress. Think of that jilt's tricking this poor old fellow out of his aloe, and oh, the meanness of Lady Delacour, to accept of that aloe for one of her extravagant entertainments!"
Bauble for bauble a jilt's faith for a mannikin's coronet. Four days before the year of trial expired, 'Only four days more! I exclaimed, drunk with rapture. The journals lie before me. Three columns to Guy Darrell's speech last night; a column more to its effect on a senate, on an empire; and two lines two little lines to the sentence that struck Guy Darrell out of the world of men!
Jilt's intuition was intense, and never once in all her life had it failed her, and though to her all Eastern men seemed exactly alike in the moonlight, yet her inner consciousness began to tap ont a message of warning, and the bristles of her self-protection to rise at the threatenings of danger. "Bother!" however, was her only comment as, keeping the star ahead, she walked steadily onward.
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