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Violet exchanged glances, and said in looks, if not in words: 'It is clear they have been hunting him pretty closely to-day. 'I must apologize, he said, 'for calling on you at such an hour; I really did not think it was so late, but the fact is I was rather anxious to see. . . . 'But won't you sit down, Lord Kilcarney? said Violet.
And on this eminently unsatisfactory answer the matter ended; even Mrs. Barton saw she could not, at least for the present, continue to press it. Still she did not give up hope. 'Try on to the end; we never know that it is not the last little effort that will win the game, was the aphorism with which she consoled her daughter, and induced her to write to Lord Kilcarney.
But wasn't it sad, you know, about poor Lord Kilcarney receiving the news of his brother's murder just at that moment? I can see him now, rushing out of the room. Violet's manner did not betoken in the least that she thought it sad, and after a pause she said: 'But you haven't shown me your dresses. I loved the one you wore at the ball.
It is said that Lord Kilcarney has given her up for Violet Scully. 'I'm not a bit surprised, said the girl in red; 'and, now I think of it, all the beauties come to the same end. I'll just give her a couple more Castle seasons. It is that that will pull the fine feathers out of her. St. Patrick's Hall was now a huge democratic crush.
They entered Patrick's Hall, where Lord Dungory, Lord Rosshill, and others were waiting to receive Mrs. Barton, who sought for a prominent seat, and dealing out pearly laughs and winsome compliments to her court, she watched Olive, who, according to orders, had taken Lord Kilcarney to sit on the highest of the series of benches that lined one side of the room, which she did, and for a moment Mrs.
If this be a true analysis of a woman's life and who will say it is not? the dreams of the Marchioness of Kilcarney would begin in her easy-chair about the second spring after her marriage, the shaggy shape that haunts the back of my mind would hear her dreams, and the wooing that began with the daffodils would continue always, for she is a woman that could keep a lover till the end of time.
I was deeply interested in your description of the Dublin festivities, and must try and tell you all the news. 'Everybody here is talking of Olive and Lord Kilcarney. It is said that he proposed to her at the Drawing-Room. Is this true? I hope so, for she seems to have set her heart on the match. But she is a great deal too nice for him.
It was Mrs. Scully who served it out to him; and do you know what they are saying? that it is all your fault that Olive did not marry Kilcarney. 'My fault? 'Your fault, because you gave the part of the beggar-maid to Violet, and if Olive had played the beggar-maid and hadn't married Kilcarney, the fault would have been laid at your door just the same.
What could have made you think she was going to marry Captain Hibbert? In my opinion they aren't at all suited to each other. Why do you ask me? 'Because I have heard you speak of Lord Kilcarney as a man you would like Olive to marry, and, if this be so, I thought I had better tell you about Captain Hibbert. I think she is very much in love with him. 'Oh! nonsense; it is only to kill time.
Lord Kilcarney was, alas! not to be thought of. Ah! if Mr. Burke were only Lord Kilcarney! But he was not. However, Captain Hibbert would be a fairly good match. He was of excellent family, had two thousand a year, and a place in the country and in England too. But why snatch up the very first fish that came by? There was no saying whom they would meet at the Castle.