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"Well, I trust that Blanche and I will contrive to see a good bit of each other all the same," replied Sylla courteously. "You know my aunt, Captain Bloxam," she continued, as she moved away. "I should have thought her an easy person to get on with; but I am afraid Lady Mary does not like her."
This commission was in reality the mildest of mysteries; but he saw that Blanche believed it to be of far greater importance. "I cannot tell you," he replied. "May I ask why?" "Certainly. I cannot tell you because I have promised not to mention it. You, of course, would not wish me to break my word?" "Decidedly not," rejoined Miss Bloxam. "My curiosity has led me into a great indiscretion.
There ain't a many such jobs as this 'ere, an' I'm thinkin' that maybe Sam Bloxam could tell ye summut." I asked if he could tell me where to find him. I told him that if he could get me the address it would be worth another half sovereign to him. So he gulped down the rest of his tea and stood up, saying that he was going to begin the search then and there.
Wriothesley not obtained the keynote at Hurlingham, she would have been puzzled to understand what had come to her niece. The wand of the enchanter had transformed the girl. Her vivacity was wonderfully toned down; her whole manner softened; and Sylla, most self-possessed of young ladies, was unmistakably shy in the presence of Jim Bloxam.
But he is in the something-somethieth, and we are going to see if we can find him in Rockcliffe Camp." "Don't be so absurd, Captain Bloxam," rejoined Mrs. Sartoris. "But I am told, Lady Mary, it is a pretty walk to the camp, and that there is a grand view over the Channel on the south side of it." "It is the very thing, mamma," observed Blanche.
"Oh, but, Lady Mary, you will never shut yourself up and turn recluse," returned the elder Miss Chipchase. "You must come to the Commonstone ball on Easter Monday; you will all come, of course. I quite count upon you, Captain Bloxam." "Perfectly right, Miss Chipchase," replied the dragoon, with a glance of unmistakable admiration at the new importation.
It consisted, besides the family and Mr. Cottrell, of a Mr. and Mrs. Evesham and their two daughters "such amiable girls, you know," as Lady Mary always said of them; a Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris, a young married couple; Jim Bloxam, the dragoon; and a Captain Braybrooke, a brother officer of his. "Come along, mother," exclaimed Jim. "Mrs.
Bloxam, you are bound to be there. Remember you engaged me for 'Sir Roger de Coverley, for the next dance we met at, last Christmas Eve." "I don't forget, Laura," laughed the Squire; "only you really must moderate the pace down the middle this time."
I have no patience with such nonsense; and if I hear from you that the right people will be there, shall insist upon her going. Her thirst for knowledge applies, I suspect, to some proceedings of Mr. Beauchamp's. If she would only confide what it is to me, I have little doubt I could put her mind at rest in eight and forty hours. "Yours sincerely, "MARY BLOXAM." Mr.
"I am so sorry we shall not see you at the Commonstone ball, Captain Bloxam," said Miss Sylla, with whom Jim had entered into conversation. "Why so? What makes you think I shall not be there?" "Because your mamma has brought you down here for the repairing of your shattered constitutions," replied the young lady, demurely. "Do you all go to bed at half-past ten?"
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