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She had been taught to view herself as rather a bad case, and to feel that she was far from being what her relatives had a right to expect. To be thrown with a person who did not find her silly or dull or commonplace, was a new experience. "If I had been clever," Lucia said once to Mr. Burmistone, "if I had been clever, perhaps grandmamma would have been more satisfied with me.
"That is perfectly true," said Mr. Burmistone; and he even went so far as to laugh as he thought of Miss Octavia trembling in the august presence of Lady Theobald. The laugh checked Lucia at once in her little outburst of eloquence. She began to blush, the color mounting to her forehead. "Oh!" she began, "I did not mean to to say so much.
Burmistone. "Thanks." So, at each of the tea-parties following Lady Theobald's, the two men appeared together. The small end of the wedge being inserted into the social stratum, the rest was not so difficult. Mrs. Burnham was at once surprised and overjoyed by her discoveries of the many excellences of the man they had so hastily determined to ignore. Mrs. Abercrombie found Mr.
"Ah!" exclaimed Barold impatiently: "I was not looking at it from her point of view, but from his." Mr. Burmistone slipped his hands in his pockets, and jingled his keys slightly, as he did once before in an earlier part of this narrative. "Ah! from his," he repeated. "Not from hers. His point of view would differ from hers naturally."
Burmistone, whom we cannot pass over; and here is Lady Theobald, who will turn to stone the moment she sees him, though, goodness knows, I am sure he seems a very quiet, respectable man, and said some of the most complimentary things about your playing.
Beg pardon, I'm sure, and so does Burmistone, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at Broadoaks, and who was good enough to invite me to return with him." Lady Theobald extended her hand to the gentleman specified. "I am glad," she said rigidly, "to see Mr. Burmistone." Then she turned to Barold. "This is very fortunate," she announced.
"Same man I used to know," he remarked. "Glad to see him. I knew him as soon as I set eyes on him." "Do you allude to Mr. Burmistone?" "Yes. Had a long talk with him. He's coming to see you to-morrow. Told him he might come, myself. Appears he's taken a fancy to Lucia. Wants to talk it over. Suits me exactly, and suppose it suits her. Looks as if it does.
Burnham colored never so faintly. "I that is to say there is a sort of acquaintance between one of my maids and the butler at the Burmistone place; and, when the girl was doing Lydia's hair, she told her the story. Lord Lansdowne and his father are quite fond of Mr. Burmistone, it is said." "It seems rather singular to my mind that we should not have known of this before."
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