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So I did not see Miss Galindo until some time after tea; as the young gentlewomen had had to bring her their sewing and spinning, to hear the remarks of so competent a judge. At length her ladyship brought her visitor into the room where I lay, it was one of my bad days, I remember, in order to have her little bit of private conversation.
"Have they gone, Horace?" she asked, following him into the dining-room. Parker selected a cigar from Freddie's humidor, crackled it against his ear, smelt it, clipped off the end, and lit it. He took the decanter and filled his wife's glass, then mixed himself a whisky-and-soda. "Happy days!" said Parker. "Yes, they've gone!" "I didn't see her ladyship." "You didn't miss much!
Her ladyship, no doubt, wished to make a little variety, and so she was good enough to provide us with something new." "Dear me!" cried Walter; "how I should have liked being there! What was the novelty? Was it a temperance lecture, or a Band of Hope meeting for the benefit of the old boys and girls of sixty or seventy years of age? That must have been very lively.
He's not easily hoodwinked, you know. He resigns himself to his fate and follows other game." "Then the condition is, that I am to seduce this young man?" "My dear Bella! you strike your bird like a hawk. I didn't say seduce. Hold him in play with him. Amuse him." "I don't understand half-measures." "Women seldom do." "How I hate you, Brayder!" "I thank your ladyship." The two walked farther.
"Nay, Madam," he said, whilst he bowed gracefully before her, "I fear me this lengthy conversation hath somewhat fatigued you.... This merry jest 'twixt my engaging friend and myself should not have been prolonged so far into the night.... Monsieur, I pray you, will you not give orders that her ladyship be escorted back to her room?"
But just then it flashed upon my mind that Sir Francis and her ladyship had gone out the day before to stay somewhere for a fortnight, and this explained the boldness of the two young ruffians, who had never behaved so outrageously before.
"Fie, Lady Tinemouth!" cried the lady; "you are partial: nay, you are absurd; did you ever yet hear a man speak truth to a woman?" "Lady Sara!" replied her ladyship, with one of those arch glances which seldom visited her eyes, "where will be your vanity if I assent to this?" "In the moon, with man's sincerity." Thaddeus paid little attention to this dialogue.
English Clay went to his relation, Lady Trant, and first reproaching her with having been too precipitate in executing his first commission, gave her a second, in which he begged she would make no delay: he requested her ladyship would inform Mrs.
Passing this room I noticed a couple of housemaids preparing it for the night, and discovered with a shiver that Lady Carwitchet was to be my next-door neighbour. It gave me a turn. The bishop's strange warning must have unnerved me. I was perfectly safe from her ladyship. The disused door into her room was locked, and the key safe on the housekeeper's bunch.
Had I been struck with this sketch I might easily have imagined her ladyship was throwing me the handkerchief. "She hasn't done," my visitor said, "what she ought." "Do you mean she has done what she oughtn't?" "Nothing horrid ah dear no." And something in Mrs.
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