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I like going to church myself sometimes." "Do you now?" "I know what would make me like to go to church." "And father is at the Athenaeum. He goes there to do a little light reading in the library on Sunday afternoon." "I shall never forget yesterday, Miss Boncassen." "You wouldn't if your clothes had been spoilt as mine were." "Money will repair that."
He had known Miss Boncassen a week or two before Lord Silverbridge had seen her, having by some chance dined out and sat next to her. From that moment he had become changed, and had gone hither and thither in pursuit of the American beauty. His passion having become suspected by his companions had excited their ridicule.
Longstaff! If you sigh like that you'll burst yourself." "I'll what?" "Burst yourself!" and she nodded her head at him. Then he clapped his hands together, and turned his head away from her towards the little temple. "I wonder whether she knows what love is," he said, as though he were addressing himself to Mrs. Arthur de Bever. "No, she don't," said Miss Boncassen.
That accident in regard to the colour of the Dean's lodge had stood in the way of his logical studies, so that he was unable to put his argument into proper shape; but there belonged to him a certain natural astuteness which told him that he must put in his rejoinder at this particular point. "I think I am bound in honour and in duty to marry Miss Boncassen," he said.
Boncassen being rather anxious to stop the flood of American eloquence which came from his friend Mr. Gotobed. British viands had become subject to his criticism, and Mr. Gotobed had declared to Mr. Lupton that he didn't believe that London could produce a dish of squash or tomatoes. He was quite sure you couldn't have sweet corn.
But Lady Mary ran after her, and having caught her, put her arm round her waist and kissed her. "I at any rate will love you," said Lady Mary. "I will do as I have said," continued Miss Boncassen. "I will do as I have said. Though I love your brother down to the ground he shall not marry me without his father's consent."
Gerald had come up from Oxford for the occasion that he might make acquaintance with the Boncassens. He had taken Isabel in to dinner, but had been turned out of his place when his brother came in. He had been a little confused by the first impression made upon him by Mrs. Boncassen, and had involuntarily watched his father.
He had surely said enough to her to make her know what he meant; and yet she had taken no trouble to meet him half way. And then Isabel Boncassen had intervened. Now he was asked to dinner in a most unusual manner! Of all the guests invited Lord Popplecourt was perhaps the least disturbed.
But it is a compliment which becomes very much the reverse if it be repeated too often. You are sharp enough to understand that I have done everything in my power to save us both from this trouble." "What makes you so fierce, Miss Boncassen?" "What makes you so foolish?" "I suppose it must be something peculiar to American ladies." "Just that; something peculiar to American ladies.
Miss Boncassen's River-Party. No. 2 Lord Silverbridge made up his mind that as he could not dance with Miss Boncassen he would not dance at all. He was not angry at being rejected, and when he saw her stand up with Dolly Longstaff he felt no jealousy. She had refused to dance with him not because she did not like him, but because she did not wish to show that she liked him.
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