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"Oh, yes, Mr. Van Horne, here is a place for you, and another couple besides. Whom are you looking for?" "Charles Hubbard, sir; I want him for a vis-a-vis." "Charlie is already placed, I see; but here is a gentleman; perhaps you would like to dance, sir?" addressing Captain Kockney, who was still in possession of the sofa and the flowers.
"But, Madame, the gentleman will not know what a charming lady wish for the chair he will not give it." "Oh, no danger; if you tell him it is for a lady, of course he will let you have it. Why, how slow you are about it; you are almost as bad as Captain Kockney, who never did anything when he was asked." "Ah, Madame, de graces do not say that! I go."
"Ellery is no friend of mine; but, pray, don't name him in the same breath with that Kockney." "Oh, no, Mr. Ellery is a gentleman, evidently; but I don't like his manners, there is something affected about him." "Certainly, he knows how to play the coxcomb, and condescends to do so quite too often. But I hope you like Townsend; he is really a fine fellow." "Mr.
"And he that aye has lived free May not well know the misery, The wrath, the strife, the hate, and all, That's compassed in the name of thrall." "You have mustered quite a pretty set of little plebeians 'ere to-night. Now, that's quite a nice-looking little creature standing by the door," continued Captain Kockney; "what do you call her?"
That's Pa you are speaking of." "Just so that is what I said. You call your paternities PA, do you? we always call the old fellows governors, in England." "Do you call your father Gov. Kockney? I did not know that governor was an English title; it sounds very plebeian in my ears." "Now, what DO you mean? ha! ha! you are delightful. You put me in mind of a good scene at the drawing-room, last June.
Townsend has very different manners." "Yes, he has the best English manner; quite natural, and not afraid to be civil. It is only the best of the English who are quite free from nonsense. Ellery aims at effect, half the time; Townsend has too much sense to do so." "Well, I really wonder," said Jane, "how Mrs. Hilson can endure that Captain Kockney." "The silly little soul knows no better."
"I think the West-End is fully represented here, this evening, Emmeline," said the fair lady as she tripped past her sister, followed by Captain Kockney, after the rooms were uncomfortably full. "Some very pretty women 'ere, Mrs. 'Ilson," observed Captain Kockney; "that's really a lovely creature just come in, and what a piece of ugliness it is alongside of her." "Miss Graham?
"How delightful it must be to live surrounded by royalty in that way!" "There you're quite out. It's a great bore; one has to mind their p's and q's at court, you know I never go to Windsor if I can help, it." "Well, I should never tire of a court I am thoroughly patrician in my disposition. I have a good right to such tastes, Captain Kockney, for I have a great deal of noble blood in my veins."
Taylor calls on all the strangers who arrive," said Jane. Harry's lip curled a little. "How disagreeable that Captain Kockney is," continued Jane. "More than disagreeable," replied Harry. "I should not have used so soft a word. I was not a little amused, by-the-bye, to see how the fellow cooled off when Townsend and Ellery came in.
The contrast between these two couples, placed opposite to each other, was striking, and yet common enough in a mixed ballroom. Captain Kockney was desperately nonchalant, his partner full of airs and graces; their conversation was silly, ignorant, and conceited, beyond the reach of imagination such things must be heard to be believed.
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