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However, a few moments sufficed to recover me, and I strained every nerve to be as agreeable and seduisant as possible. After I had conversed with Miss Glanville for some time, Lady Roseville joined us. Stately and Juno-like as was that charming personage in general, she relaxed into a softness of manner to Miss Glanville, that quite won my heart.
"Lady Frances wishes Lady C to be made acquainted with you; this is her night, and I therefore enclose you a card. As I dine at House, I shall have an opportunity of making your eloge before your arrival. Your's sincerely, "C. Roseville." I wonder, thought I, as I made my toilet, whether or not Lady Roseville is enamoured with her new correspondent?
Lady Roseville was on the other side of my beautiful companion; and I observed that, whenever she took her eyes from Miss Glanville, they always rested upon her brother, who, in the midst of the disputation and the disputants, sat silent, gloomy, and absorbed. The conversation turned upon Scott's novels; thence on novels in general; and finally on the particular one of Anastasius.
Two weeks before this God gave me the same scripture, with the impression that I should see its fulfilment in the near future. I arrived at Roseville about twelve days after my brother had prayed for the little girl and found him already beginning to break out. We learned that the other minister who had been with him, took the disease about the same time.
Lady Roseville, I am looking much paler than when I saw you at Garrett Park; but you you are like one of those beautiful flowers which bloom the brightest in the winter." "Thank Heaven, Mr. Pelham," said Lady Roseville, laughing, "that you allow me at last to say one word. You have learned, at least, the art of making the frais of the conversation since your visit to Paris."
Seeing that , who was esteemed, among his friends, the handsomest man of the day, had risen from his seat, next to Lady Roseville, in order to make room for me, I negligently and quietly dropped into it, and answered his grave and angry stare at my presumption, with my very sweetest and most condescending smile.
Lady Roseville, however, speaks of the intended match with great respect, and says that since we admit convenance, as the chief rule in matrimony, she never remembers an instance in which it has been more consulted. "There are to be several promotions in the peerage. Lord H 's friends wish to give out that he will have a dukedom; Mais j'en doute.
"Tell me," interrupted Lady Roseville, "how it happens that you, who talk eruditely enough upon matters of erudition, should talk so lightly upon matters of levity?" "Why," said I, rising to depart, "very great minds are apt to think that all which they set any value upon, is of equal importance.
There were four or five others of the unknown vulgar, younger brothers, who were good shots and bad matches; elderly ladies, who lived in Baker-street, and liked long whist; and young ones, who never took wine, and said "Sir." I must, however, among this number, except the beautiful Lady Roseville, the most fascinating woman, perhaps, of the day.
I went very early, and before I retired, my vanity was undeceived. Lady Roseville was playing at ecarte, when I entered. She beckoned to me to approach. I did. Her antagonist was Mr. Bedford, a natural son of the Duke of Shrewsbury, and one of the best natured and best looking dandies about town: there was, of course, a great crowd round the table.
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