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"I fancy he used to be awfully spooney on Mab Grex. I remember hearing that they were to have been married, only that neither of them had sixpence." "Oh Lady Mabel Grex! That's a horse of another colour." "And which is the horse of your colour?" "I haven't got a horse," said Lord Popplecourt, going away to his own corner. Miss Boncassen's Idea of Heaven
Then he took his friend's hand in his, and, having grasped it, walked away without saying another word. Miss Boncassen's River-Party. No. 1 Thrice within the next three weeks did Lord Silverbridge go forth to ask Mabel to be his wife, but thrice in vain. On one occasion she would talk on other things. On the second Miss Cassewary would not leave her.
She strongly suspected that something had been said between her father and her brother on the subject. But then she had Isabel Boncassen's direct assurance that Silverbridge was engaged to her! Now when Isabel's back was turned, Silverbridge and Mabel were always together. On the Thursday after lunch they were again out together.
"But that is no salve for my injured feelings I have heard so much about Miss Boncassen's beauty for the last week, that I mean to get up a company of British females, limited, for the express purpose of putting her down. Who is Miss Boncassen that we are all to be put on one side for her?" Of course he knew that she was joking, but he hardly knew how to take her joke.
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