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"And I can only reply as I did before, Miss Bloxam, that it is impossible. No sensible person could ever do that. It is very improbable that you should ask me, but it is possible that you might wish me, to do something that I was bound to say 'no' to. I repeat, improbable but possible. Won't you tell me what it is? You may be quite sure it is already granted if within my power."
Cottrell approvingly, "and reduces it merely to lunching at any house in London. Cabs innumerable round there; one, as you say, can get away at any time." "And now, Captain Bloxam," said Mrs. Wriothesley, "if you will ring the bell for coffee, Sylla and I will get our cloaks on while it cools; and then I think we must be going. Oh, about transport?" she adds, pausing at the door. "I think, Mr.
Cottrell is ample recompense," replied Lionel, laughing, and making a mock salaam of great humility. "We thoroughly mean what we say; and in the meantime extend your amiability so far as to give me a cigarette. Miss Blanche, I am sure, will permit it?" Miss Bloxam bent her head in assent as Lionel Beauchamp produced the identical cigar-case that had so attracted Mr.
Cottrell; but, dear me! they have begun to talk about that horrid ball again at the bottom of the table, have they not?" "I say, mother," exclaimed Jim Bloxam, "of course we are all going to this Commonstone ball on Monday?" "Nonsense! I am surprised at your thinking of such a thing. The idea of our going to a Commonstone ball on Easter Monday!
"Won't you wish me luck, Miss Bloxam?" said Lionel, quietly, as the bugle summoned the competitors in the match to the starting-post. "Certainly, with all my heart," rejoined Blanche. "All our sympathies are of course with you. But do you think you can win?" "I really don't know. If it was only a mile, Montague would find me troublesome to get rid of; but this is hardly far enough for me."
Bloxam is sensible; says there is nothing the matter, further than that they have knocked all the wind out of his body, and that he is too shaken to go on with the game at present; he will be all right again in a couple of hours. See, there he is, walking away to the dressing-rooms at the other side, along with his antagonist, who is in a similar case.
She was at variance with her daughter just now on the subject of the invitation they had received from Lionel Beauchamp for a water party down the river, and about which she and Blanche were by no means of one mind. Lady Mary was all for its acceptance, while Miss Bloxam persistently advocated its refusal.
"Ladies and gentlemen not intending to assist in this representation are requested to withdraw," retorted Jim, "by order of the stage-manager, James Bloxam." "Come along, Mr. Cottrell: he has right on his side; the audience have certainly no business at the rehearsals." And, followed by the younger Miss Chipchase, Cottrell, and Beauchamp, Blanche crossed towards the door.
Bloxam, that is it. It's not missed, but a miss. There are lots of words, you know, begin with 'miss." Some slight delay, during which the soft dreamy music still falters unceasingly from Laura Chipchase's fingers, and then the curtain once more begins to ascend. There is no such sensational effect as a pistol-report to startle the audience this time. The scene represents a lady's dressing-room.
Johnson's house, and were seated in his library, the dialogue went on admirably. EDWARDS. 'Sir, I remember you would not let us say PRODIGIOUS at College. I should have been a parson, and had a good living, like Bloxam and several others, and lived comfortably. JOHNSON. 'Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy.
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