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'I promised not to say a word. 'It is your mistress, I expect. 'You may think what you like; but the lady is anything but a mistress of mine. The flighty Menlove pressed her to tell the whole story, but finding this useless the subject was changed. Presently her father came in, and, taking no notice of Menlove, told his daughter that she had been called for.
The next day, much to Ethelberta's surprise, there was a letter for her in her mother's up-hill hand. She neglected all the rest of its contents for the following engrossing sentences: 'Menlove has wormed everything out of poor Joey, we find, and your father is much upset about it. She had another quarrel with him, and then declared she would expose you and us to Mrs.
'Never mind, then; you look on. Away then ran the housemaid and Menlove, and the young footman started at their heels. Round the room, over the furniture, under the furniture, through the furniture, out of one window, along the balcony, in at another window, again round the room so they glided with the swiftness of swallows and the noiselessness of ghosts.
'I have something else to tell you, which is not quite so satisfactory, and it is this that makes me write at once; but do not be alarmed. It began in this way. A few nights after the dinner-party here I was determined to find out if there was any truth in what you had been told about that boy, and having seen Menlove go out as usual after dark, I followed her.
'The dashing widow looks very well, does she not? said a person at Picotee's elbow. It was her conductor Menlove, now returned again, whom Picotee had quite forgotten. 'She will do some damage here to-night you will find, continued Menlove. 'How long have you been with her? 'O, a long time I mean rather a short time, stammered Picotee. 'I know her well enough.
'Menlove, she said, without looking towards a rustle and half a footstep that had just come in at the door, but leaning back in her chair and speaking towards the corner of the looking-glass, 'will you go down and find out if any gentleman named Julian has been staying in this house?
Doncastle in her dressing-room could not quite repress. One could almost forgive Menlove her arts when so modest a result brought such vast content. Mrs. Doncastle seemed inclined to make no remark during the dressing, and at last Menlove could repress herself no longer. 'I should like to name something to you, m'm. 'Yes. 'I shall be wishing to leave soon, if it is convenient.
Her father was there, and began telling her of a surprising change in Menlove an unasked-for concession to their cause, and a vow of secrecy which he could not account for, unless any friend of Ethelberta's had bribed her. 'O no that cannot be, said she. Any influence of Lord Mountclere to that effect was the last thing that could enter her thoughts.
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