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"Permission to call upon you and your aunt," he added, glancing around the little circle. "We shall be delighted," Maggie replied, "but you won't like my aunt. She is a little deaf, and she has no sense of humour. She has come to live with us because Lord Dorminster and I are not really related, although we call ourselves cousins, and I should hate to leave Belgrave Square.
He was re-enforced by others, and the ladies had all the beaux they could manage; and Miss Blanche could have had all of them if she had not chosen to cling to Louis Belgrave. They were all invited to dinner in the cabin of the Guardian-Mother, and Mr. Sage was informed of the fact before he returned to the ship.
The dishes were somewhat peculiar; but Sir Modava explained them to the commander and Mrs. Belgrave, while Lord Tremlyn rendered a similar service to the Woolridges and Louis, and Dr. Ferrolan to the professional gentlemen of the company. "I think you will find this fish very good," said his lordship, as the second course came on.
"Captain Ringgold said you had offered to go on shore with us, Professor Giroud," said Louis, as he joined the instructor. "We shall be delighted with your company." "Thank you, Mr. Belgrave. I have been on shore every day, with or without the party, and have learned something about Bangkok. I may be of service to you," replied the professor. "I am sure you will," said Scott.
Belgrave leading, followed by the pacha and the princess. His Excellency stood at the head of the large apartment, and received them as they advanced. He was a widower and childless, so that he had no wife nor daughter to present.
"Faix, the bridges betune oursels and civiloization are all broke down!" exclaimed Felix McGavonty, who sometimes used his Milesian dialect in order, as he put it, not to lose his mother's brogue. "Not so bad as that, Felix; for there is considerable civilization lying around loose in Borneo," replied Louis Belgrave. "Not much of it here is found," added Achang Bakir, the Bornean.
He must not be confounded with any other of the persons who laid claim to be children of the unfortunate victim of the first Revolution. The next claimant, Henri of Bordeaux, is better known. In the year 1843 he held his little fugitive court in furnished lodgings, in a forgotten district of London, called Belgrave Square.
But before she could do so she must be made to understand something of the nature of that career, and of the need of such aid. Of course there arose the question where they should live. But he was ready with an immediate answer to this question. He had been to look at a flat, a set of rooms, in the Belgrave Mansions, in Pimlico, or Belgravia you ought more probably to call it.
He should never see another like her! Perhaps this was the reason he walked half-a-mile out of his homeward way, through Belgrave Square, to haunt the street in which she lived, looking wistfully into those gardens whence he had seen her emerge that very day with her mysterious companion gazing with plaintive interest on the bell-handle and door-scraper of his mother's house vaguely pondering how he could ever bear to enter that house again and going through the whole series of those imaginary throes, which are indeed real sufferings with people who have been foolish enough to exchange the dignity and reality of existence for a dream.
Louis Belgrave be invited to prepare and deliver the lecture," interposed Morris; and the motion was put and carried. "I have no objection; and my own curiosity would have prompted me to do so without any invitation; but I thank you for the honor you confer on me in the selection," replied Louis; and the company adjourned to the forecastle.
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