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Your father will be better, and he will persuade you to leave him for an hour or two, I am sure, and we must have you amongst us; and I must introduce you to Lady Bradstone she's a charming woman, I assure you you would like her of all things, if you knew her. Come don't let me see you in this way.
The winter was now passed, and her ladyship invited Miss Turnbull to accompany her to Cheltenham; her son was of the party. Our heroine plainly understood his intentions, and her friendship for Lady Bradstone did not prevent her from favouring his views: neither was she deterred by her knowledge of his lordship's taste for play, so ardent was her desire for a coronet.
How Lady Bradstone contrived to make her aristocratic pride of birth agree with her democratic principles, it may be difficult to explain; but fortunately the idea of preserving consistency never disturbed her self-complacency. Besides, to keep her ladyship in countenance, there are so many examples of persons who live as royalists and talk as republicans.
Lady Bradstone expressed high indignation at perceiving that her daughters thought more of dancing at a birthnight ball than of the good of the nation. Mrs.
Frustrated in all her ambitious schemes, she was sensible that all that now remained for her was to conceal her disappointment, and to avoid the contempt to which she would be exposed in the world, if it were whispered that Miss Turnbull had fancied that the Marquis of was in love with her, whilst he was all the while paying his addresses to Lady Gabriella Bradstone.
A whisper from Lady Bradstone to one of the shopmen, of "Who is that charming woman?" gave our heroine courage to pronounce these words.
Elmour, my dear and don't be alarmed, above all things you know it's so natural, at your father's age, that he should not be as well as he has been but I distress you and detain you." Our heroine, after running off these unmeaning sentences, passed on, being ashamed to walk with Ellen in public, because Lady Bradstone had whispered, "Who is she?"
"Alas!" thought she, "Ellen foresaw that I should soon be disgusted with this joyless, heartless intercourse; but how can I recede? how can I disengage myself from this Lord Bradstone, now that I have encouraged his addresses? Fool that I have been! Oh! if I could now be advised by that best of friends, who used to assist me in all my difficulties!
They found a variety of causes of complaint against our heroine; and if they had been at any loss, their respective waiting-maids would have furnished them with inexhaustible causes of quarrel. Lady Bradstone could not bear to go with more than four in a coach. "Why was Miss Turnbull always to have a front seat in the coach, and two of the young ladies to be always left at home on her account?"
Almeria could not brook the affront implied by Lady Bradstone's last speech; and matters were now brought to a crisis: she resolved not to remain longer in a house where she was exposed to such insults. She was of "age, and, thank Heaven! independent." Lady Bradstone made no opposition to her determination; but congratulated her upon the prospect of becoming independent."
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