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"I was not going to say any thing unkind," he answered. "Why should I?" "Everybody seems to find a reason for speaking severely of her," Lucia faltered. "I have heard so many unkind things tonight, that I am quite unhappy. I am sure I am sure she is very candid and simple." "Yes," answered Mr. Burmistone, "I am sure she is very candid and simple."
The next moment he was standing at Octavia Bassett's side, looking rather pleased, and the blood of Slowbridge was congealing, as the significance of the situation was realized. One instant of breathless of awful suspense, and her ladyship recovered herself. "We will go in to tea," she said. "May I ask you, Mr. Burmistone, to accompany Miss Pilcher?"
Burmistone is fond of her. They are great friends. Man needs a woman at such times." "And he chose Belinda Bassett?" "In the first place, he is on friendly terms with her, as I said before," replied Barold; "in the second, she's just what he wants well-bred, kind-hearted, not likely to make rows, et caetera."
There was something so innocent and touching in her sudden timidity and confusion, that Mr. Burmistone forgot altogether that they were not very old friends, and that Lady Theobald might be looking. He bent slightly forward, and looked into her upraised, alarmed eyes. "Don't be afraid of me" he said; "don't, for pity's sake!"
"If she had been well brought up," he said, "she would have been a different creature." "Very different, I have no doubt," said Burmistone thoughtfully. "When you say well brought up, by the way, do you mean brought up like your cousin, Miss Gaston?" "There is a medium," said Barold loftily. "I regret to say Lady Theobald has not hit upon it." "Well, as you say," commented Mr.
Making a call at Oldclough, he found his august relative in a very majestic mood, and she applied to him again for information. "Perhaps," she said, "you may be able to tell me whether it is true that Belinda Bassett Belinda Bassett," with emphasis, "has been invited by Mr. Burmistone to assist him to receive his guests." "Yes, it is true," was the reply: "I think I advised it myself.
"It is scarcely likely that Lord Lansdowne" "Beg pardon," he interrupted, fixing his single glass dexterously in his right eye, and gazing at her ladyship through it. "Can't see why Lansdowne should object. Fact is, he is a great deal fonder of Burmistone than relations usually are of each other. Now, I often find that kind of thing a bore; but Lansdowne doesn't seem to.
"Look here!" said Burmistone, "that's a new idea, isn't it?" "No, an old one; but I have been putting the thing off from day to day. By Jove! I did not think it likely that I should put it off, the day I landed here." And he laughed rather uneasily. The very day after this, Octavia opened the fourth trunk.
"He'll think I want him to call," she said serenely. "And I do." The position in which Lady Theobald found herself placed, after these occurrences, was certainly a difficult and unpleasant one. It was Mr. Francis Barold's caprice, for the time being, to develop an intimacy with Mr. Burmistone. He had, it seemed, chosen to become interested in him during their sojourn at Broadoaks.
"She would do as she chose," said Barold petulantly. "She would do things which were unusual; but I was not referring to her in particular. Why should I?" "Ah!" said Burmistone. "I only thought of her because it did not strike me that one would ever feel she had exactly blundered. She is not easily embarrassed. There is a sang-froid about her which carries things off."
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