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As it does so, Bloxam's pistol is discharged in the air, and the performers remain unmovable till once more masked from the view of the spectators. "A duel!" exclaims Miss Evesham; "what are we to make of that?" "No, no, that won't do," ejaculates the Squire: "he has missed missed, don't you see? Can't be quite right; but that's the idea." "I have it," rejoins Miss Evesham; "you are right, Mr.
"And now, Sylla, the sooner you set that great mind of yours to work, the better." Todborough Grange rejoiced in what should be the adjunct of every country house a large unfurnished room. It had been thrown out expressly as a playroom for the children by Cedric Bloxam's father, and as they grew up proved even more useful.
Sartoris felt quite guilty, and rather repented her of having volunteered to join Captain Bloxam's party; but when the gentlemen made their appearance, Lady Mary was doomed to be made once more uncomfortable by the proceedings of her first-born. She listened in somewhat distrait fashion to a flood of anecdote and small-talk that Mr.
Blanche's curiosity, too, was also much exercised on this subject, and young ladies, in their own artless fashion, can cross-examine in such cases as adroitly as a Queen's Counsel. On one point there was much unanimity, namely, that it was a great triumph for the Grange, and most satisfactory that Jim Bloxam's defeat should have been so speedily avenged.
It must have been some such malicious feeling that prompted Mr. Cottrell to observe, "Poor Jim! He seems destined always to play second fiddle. As at Rockcliffe, he is just beaten again." "Defeats such as Captain Bloxam's," exclaimed Sylla, "are as much to one's credit as easily-obtained victories. He was just defeated at Rockcliffe after a gallant struggle.
"Rather a sudden change in the wind," said Lionel Beauchamp, as he lit Miss Bloxam's candle in the hall: "instead of being dead against, it seems to be blowing quite a gale in the direction of the Commonstone ball. I suppose you will go too, if the rest do?" "Yes," she replied mendaciously.
"My dear Sylla," exclaimed Lady Mary, as that young lady, leaning upon Bloxam's arm, stopped near her in one of the pauses of the valse, "I have not had an opportunity of congratulating you upon your very spirited pantomime carried, my dear, a little too far in that last charade." "Oh, I hope you don't really think so, Lady Mary," cried Sylla; "but you cannot half act a thing.
Apparently Lionel Beauchamp did not think so; and seating himself by Miss Bloxam's side, he proceeded to inquire into this instance of a woman's whimsies with great earnestness of purpose. It was, of course, quite evident to Mr. Cottrell that Jim Bloxam had not as yet disclosed to his own people his engagement to Sylla Chipchase; and so delighted was Mr.
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