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The marquis returned from abroad, and Lady Pierrepoint wrote a note more mysteriously worded than usual, signifying that she "wished to have a conference with Miss Turnbull on a subject of some importance; and begged to know at what hour in the morning she might be secure of the pleasure of finding her at home." Almeria named her hour, and waited for its arrival with no small impatience.
Well, I must bid you adieu for the present, my dear Miss Turnbull you may imagine I have a world of business on my hands." With the utmost appearance of cordiality Lady Pierrepoint shook our heroine's receding hand; and, without seeming to notice the painful emotions visible in Almeria's countenance, departed smiling, and perfectly composed.
We had been below about half-an-hour, and were getting well forward with our dinner, when we heard the voices of Pierrepoint and the quarter-master in earnest conversation over the open skylight, and an occasional word or two that reached us seemed to indicate that they were in doubt about something.
"I am sure I never suspected the marquis's attachment to Lady Gabriella," said Miss Turnbull: "on the contrary " "On the contrary," pursued Lady Pierrepoint, "he paid her always, as I remember, less attention than to twenty others, who were indifferent to him." The struggle was still violent in our heroine's mind between rage and the dread of exposing herself to ridicule.
Whatever vexation our heroine might feel from this speech, and from the perfect indifference with which Lady Bradstone parted from her, was compensated by the belief that she had by her conduct this evening ingratiated herself with Lady Pierrepoint. She was confirmed in this opinion by Mrs.
Our heroine took possession of her magnificent house in town: and Mrs. Vickars was established as arbitratrix elegantiarum. This lady deemed herself a judge in the last appeal of every thing that became a person of fashion; and her claim to infallibility upon those points was established by her being fourth cousin to Lady Pierrepoint.
The French were at Pierrepoint, a post between Champagne and Picardy, and in its neighborhood. The Spanish army was at Vervins, and threatening Guise. It had been the opinion in France that the enemy's intention was to invade Champagne, and the Duc de Nevers, governor of that province, had made a disposition of his forces suitable for such a contingency.
Thus they sat round the table, lighted by a large lamp standing up tall in the midst, according to the fashion of the time. In those days the light was small, not because of æsthetic principles, but because people had not as yet learned how to make more light, and the moderator lamp was the latest invention. "We took Mr. Cavendish to Pierrepoint, as you suggested," said Mrs. Wilberforce.
Here's the king and queen and all the royal family, and my aunt Pierrepoint come quick to our dressing-room windows, or they will be out of sight." The fair hoydens seized her between them, and dragged her away. "Mamma says it's horribly vulgar to run to the windows, but never mind that. There's my aunt Pierrepoint's coach is not it handsome?
The French secretary, Monsieur Nau, here came forward and took his place on the steps. No one heard, but every one knew the word he spoke was "Bessie," for Elizabeth Pierrepoint had long been the object of his affections.
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