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You have made it livelier." "Tha-anks," he remarked. "You are most kind." "Oh!" she answered, "it's true. If it wasn't, I shouldn't say it. You and Mr. Burmistone and Mr. Poppleton have certainly made it livelier." He went home in such a bad humor that his host, who was rather happier than usual, commented upon his grave aspect at dinner.
She had been rather out of humor for some time, having never quite recovered from her anger at the daring of that cheerful builder of mills, Mr. John Burmistone. Mr. Burmistone had been one innovation, and Octavia Bassett was another. She had not been able to manage Mr. Burmistone, and she was not at all sure that she had managed Octavia Bassett.
Barold day after day, upon the grass-plat, before all the eyes gazing down upon her from the neighboring windows; she managed to coerce Mr. Burmistone into joining these innocent orgies; and, in fact, to quote Miss Pilcher, there was "no limit to the shamelessness of her unfeminine conduct."
Burnham had prophesied, Lady Theobald heard all she wished to hear, and, indeed, a great deal more. "What is this I am told of Mr. Burmistone, Francis?" she inquired. "That he intends to give a garden-party, and that Lord Lansdowne is to be one of the guests, and that he has caused it to be circulated that they are cousins." "That Lansdowne has caused it to be circulated or Burmistone?"
He had been out when Mr. Burmistone called, and had not seen him. When Lady Theobald descended to breakfast, she found him growling over his newspaper; and he glanced up at her with a polite scowl. "Going to a funeral?" he demanded. "I accompany my granddaughter to this this entertainment," her ladyship responded. "It is scarcely a joyous occasion, to my mind."
Miss Octavia Bassett indeed I think in fact, Miss Octavia Bassett is quite, one might almost say even more, charming than her aunt." "Yes," admitted Mr. Burmistone; "perhaps one might. She is less ripe, it is true; but that is an objection time will remove." "There is such a delightful gayety in her manner!" said Mr. Poppleton; "such an ingenuous frankness! such a a such spirit!
They were at school together, it seems, and at Oxford too; and Burmistone is supposed to have behaved pretty well towards Lansdowne at one time, when he was rather a wild fellow so the father and mother say. As to Burmistone 'causing it to be circulated, that sort of thing is rather absurd. The man isn't a cad, you know." "Pray don't say 'you know, Francis," said her ladyship.
Burmistone had not been timid at all, and would, indeed, as soon have met Lady Theobald as not, for which courage his companion admired him more than ever. It was not very long before to be with this hero re-assured her, and made her feel stronger and more self-reliant.
"Lady Theobald appears to wish to speak to you," he said. Lucia left her seat, and walked across the room with a steady air. Lady Theobald did not remove her eye from her until she stopped within three feet of her. Then she asked a rather unnecessary question: "With whom have you been conversing?" "With Mr. Burmistone." "Upon what subject?" "We were speaking of Miss Octavia Bassett."
And if this had been the case in those early days, imagine what she felt now, when ah, well! when her friendship had had time and opportunity to become a much deeper sentiment. Must it be confessed that she had seen Mr. Burmistone even oftener than Octavia and Miss Belinda knew of?
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