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How far Ormond might have been drawn on by this laughing, talking, satirical, flattering wit, there is no saying; but luckily they fell out one evening about old Lady Annaly. Miss Lardner was not aware that Ormond knew, much less could she have conceived, that he liked her ladyship.
"My name is Ormond, sir." "Yes, sir." "And I beg you will let Lady Annaly and Miss Annaly know that Mr. Ormond is come to pay his respects to them." The man seemed very unwilling to carry any message to his ladies. "He was sure," he said, "that the ladies would not see anybody." "Was Lady Annaly ill?" "Her ladyship had been but poorly, but was better within the last two days." "And Miss Annaly?"
A minute afterwards they saw "Could it be?" Lady Annaly said, turning in doubt to her daughter; but the cheek of Florence instantly convinced the mother that it could be none but Mr. Ormond himself. "Mr. Ormond!" said Lady Annaly, advancing kindly, yet with dignified reserve "Mr. Ormond, after his long absence, is welcome to his old friend."
"But can there really be so much danger," said Florence, "in letting little children, protestant and catholic, come together to the same school sit on the same bench learn the same alphabet from the same hornbook?" "Oh, my dear Miss Annaly," cried Mrs.
Ormond did not dare, did not think it honourable, to make use of his eyes, though there now might have been a decisive moment for observation. No sound reached his ear from Miss Annaly's voice; but Lady Annaly spoke freely and decidedly in praise of Colonel Albemarle.
Dr. Cambray observed that Miss Annaly could not prevent any man from kneeling to her. Ormond haughtily said, "He did not know what she could prevent, he only knew what she did. She had not vouchsafed an answer to his letter she had not admitted him. These he thought were sufficient indications that the person at her feet was accepted. Whether he were or not, Ormond would inquire no further.
Cambray: "during Lord Millicent's absence on service, a gentleman of high rank and gallantry paid assiduous attention to Lady Millicent. Her relation and friend, Lady Annaly, advised her to break off all intercourse with this gentleman in such a decided manner, as to silence scandal.
"What's the matter?" said he, in a tone of great compassion, going close up to her. Then, recollecting himself, he hurried forward again. "As I can be of no use unless I can be of any use," said Miss Annaly, "I will, now that I am well enough, return my mother will wonder what has become of me." "Sir Ulick, give me the key of the conservatory, to let Miss Annaly into the ball-room."
Ormond, she will be pleased to fill up the blank with what number of days she may think proper. When the happy day was named, it was agreed that they should return to Ireland, to Annaly; and that their kind friend, Dr. Cambray, should be the person to complete that union which he had so long foreseen and so anxiously desired.
Whenever Ormond returned to his better self, whenever he thought of improving, he remembered Lady Annaly; and he now recollected with shame, that he had never had the grace to answer or to thank her for her letter.
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