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And if I should faint, where's the garden-chair?" "Oh, but I'm not going to make a declaration at all," said Frank. "Are you not? Oh! Now, Lady Margaretta, I appeal to you; did you not understand him to say something very particular?" "Certainly, I thought nothing could be plainer," said the Lady Margaretta.
"I won't keep you very long, and if dinner is a few minutes late it won't signify. Mamma and Margaretta are going to Baden-Baden." "To Baden-Baden, are they?" "Yes; and they intend to remain there for a considerable time." There was a little pause, and Alexandrina found it necessary to clear her voice and to prepare herself for further speech by a little cough.
Then there was a long silence, then a suppressed titter, and after that a loud laugh. "Oh, mamma, what shall we do?" said Lady Amelia. "Do!" said Margaretta; "why should we do anything? She has heard the truth for once in her life." "Dear Lady Dumbello, what will you think of us?" said the countess, turning round to another guest, who was also just about to depart.
"And her ladyship is not down?" said he. "She is generally last," said Lady Margaretta. "And yet she has always three women to dress her," said Alexandrina. "But when finished, what a success it is!" said Crosbie. "Indeed it is!" said Margaretta, with energy. Then the door was opened, and Lady Dumbello entered the room. There was immediately a commotion among them all.
'Then say: Duty has to come between us, but God knows I wish you well. Tears were beginning to come to Lady Everard's eyes, and she spoke with a break in her voice. 'I wish you well, Irene. 'It's not Irene. 'I wish you well, Margaretta. Some day in the far distant future you'll think of me, and be thankful for what I have done.
"You would not have me suspicious of every young man who visits me!" said Margaretta Riston, in reply to a remark made by her aunt, on the same evening that the two young men had proposed calling on her. "I would rather have you suspicious, or, rather, exceedingly watchful, than to be altogether off of your guard. Many dangers beset the path of a rich young girl like you.
So, Mr Milvey called, 'Margaretta, my dear! and Mrs Milvey came down. A pretty, bright little woman, something worn by anxiety, who had repressed many pretty tastes and bright fancies, and substituted in their stead, schools, soup, flannel, coals, and all the week-day cares and Sunday coughs of a large population, young and old.
He managed it so adroitly as to give it all the effect, without its being apparent to the subject of his experiments." "Indeed, aunt, you are mistaken. I despise a flatterer as much as you do. But I am sure that I saw nothing like flattery about Mr. Smith." "I am sorry that you did not, Margaretta. But take my advice, and be on your guard.
"Indeed, aunt, you are too severe on my favourites!" And Margaretta laughed gaily. But to her aunt there was something sad in the sound of that laugh. It seemed like the knell of long and fondly cherished hopes. "What do you think of Margaretta Riston, Mary?" asked Thomas Fielding of his sister, on the next evening after the visit just mentioned.
Therefore it is that in this world the man that is in the wrong almost invariably conquers the man that is in the right, and invariably despises him. A man must be an idiot or else an angel who, after the age of forty, shall attempt to be just to his neighbours. Many like the Lady Margaretta have learnt their lesson at a much earlier age.
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