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At this time they were interrupted by the approach of Miss Larolles, who, tripping towards Cecilia, exclaimed, "Lord, how glad I am to see you! So you would not go to the auction! Well, you had a prodigious loss, I assure you. All the wardrobe was sold, and all Lady Belgrade's trinkets. I never saw such a collection of sweet things in my life.
While they were yet at breakfast, they were again visited by Miss Larolles. "I am come," cried she, eagerly, "to run away with you both to my Lord Belgrade's sale. All the world will be there; and we shall go in with tickets, and you have no notion how it will be crowded." "What is to be sold there?" said Cecilia.
She was the first, poor child, to discover the dead body of her father, you know," said Lady Belgrade. "I do not forget that circumstance, or what distress it may yet cause her," replied the young duke. And very soon after he took leave and went away. Lady Belgrade's task in keeping the day's papers from the sight of Salome Levison was easier than she had anticipated.
Fortunately, it is possible to refute the accusation through the pen of a German journalist, who described Belgrade's desperate position on July 25th, the day when the ultimatum expired. Dr. Paul Lensch, member of the Reichstag, in his "German Social Democracy and the World War," p. 35. Published by "Vorwärts Co." "At last the inhabitants of Belgrade have become aware of their serious situation.
A girl with such a pair of eyes as hers can always get the reputation of beauty if she can only be made to believe in herself," was Lady Belgrade's secret comment; but "What beautiful eyes you have, my dear!" she said with effusion, as she kissed Salome on both cheeks.
The lady was in delicate health, and had been advised to try sea air and surf-bathing. Mr. Belgrade's business would not allow of his absence at just that time, and he had shown his confidence in his head clerk by selecting him as his wife's escort. Introduced into society by so well established an aristocrat as Mrs.
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