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She was consequently sent off with Milord to see where the Marquis was hiding; and she was commissioned to tell her sister to answer thus when Lord Kilcarney asked for another dance: 'I am engaged, cher marquis, but for you, of course, I shall have to throw some poor fellow over. Mrs. Barton did not know how to play a waiting game. Her tactics were always to grapple with the enemy.
Nobody, Lord Dungory declared, could regret the dastardly outrage that had been committed more than he. He had known Lord Kilcarney many years, and he had always found him a man whom no one could fail to esteem. The earldom was one of the oldest in Ireland, but the marquisate did not go back farther than the last few years. Beaconsfield had given him a step in the peerage; no one knew why.
'I don't know; I'm afraid they'll do nothing until we landlords are all ruined. Violet's thin face contracted. She had introduced a subject that might prevent him from ever proposing to her. She knew how heavily the Kilcarney estates were mortgaged; and, even now, as she rightly conjectured, the poor little man was inwardly trembling at the folly it had been on his lips to speak.
After a few further remarks, the ladies rose to retire; but when Mrs. Barton gave her hand to Lord Kilcarney, he said, his voice trembling a little: 'I'm afraid I must leave you to-morrow, Mrs. Barton. I shall have to run over to London to vote in the House of Lords. . . Mrs.
It was said that he was quite reformed had given up drink. But there was no use thinking of that: for the present she would have to put up with the girl's music, which was wretched. Olive fell in with her mother's plans, and she angled industriously for Lord Kilcarney.
Then there are some boys at school; but they are too young; there is Mr. Reed, the dispensary doctor. Mr. Burke has only two hundred a year; but if his brother were to die he would be the Marquis of Kilcarney. He'd be a great match then, in point of position; but I hear the estates are terribly encumbered. 'Has the present Marquis no children? said Alice. 'He's not married, said Mrs.
Fifty years had rubbed away much of her youthful ugliness; and, in the delicate twilight of her rooms, her aristocratic bearing might be mistaken for good looks. Lady Georgina was a celebrated needlewoman, and she was now begging Lord Kilcarney to assist her at a charity bazaar. Few people had yet arrived; and when Harding was announced, Mrs.
After a pause she said: 'What a splendid match Lord Kilcarney would be, and where would he find a girl like my Olive to do the honours of his house? 'Oh! mamma, I never could marry him! 'And why not, my dear girl? 'I don't know, he's a silly little fool; besides, I like Captain Hibbert.
Barton's triumph was Cæsarean. More than half-a-dozen old lords and one young man listened to her bewitching laugh, and were fed on the brown flashing gold of her eyes. Milord and Rosshill had been pushed aside; and, apart, each sought to convince the other that he was going to leave town by the evening mail. Well in view of everyone, Olive had spent an hour with Lord Kilcarney.
The girl winced; and divining the truth in a moment of inspiration, Mrs. Barton said: 'Ah! I know; Lord Kilcarney is engaged to Violet Scully. The situation was almost saved, and would have been had Olive not been present. She glanced at her mother in astonishment; and Gladys, fearing utter defeat, hurled her dart recklessly. 'Yes, she exclaimed, 'and their marriage is fixed for this autumn.
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