United States or Uruguay ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Then Miss Cassewary spoke her opinion very plainly. "If Lord Silverbridge had nobody worse about him than Mr. Tregear he would not come to much harm." "I suppose he's not very well off." "No; certainly not. He will have a property of some kind, I believe, when his mother dies. I think very well of Mr. Tregear; only I wish that he had a profession. But why are you asking about him, Lady Cantrip?"
Then she left the little room, and went down to that in which Frank was waiting for her, without the company of Miss Cassewary. "Do you really mean," she said after they had been together for some minutes, "that you had the courage to ask the Duke for his daughter's hand?" "Why not?" "I believe you would dare do anything." "I couldn't very well take it without asking him."
She was not directly responsible to the Duke of Omnium, but she was thoroughly permeated by a feeling that it was her duty to take care that there should be no clandestine love meetings in Lord Grex's house. At last Silverbridge jumped up from his chair. "Upon my word, Tregear, I think you had better go," said he. "So do I," said Miss Cassewary. "If it is an accident "
"Nidderdale was talking to me about him and saying that he was so much with Lord Silverbridge. Lord Silverbridge is going into Parliament now, and, as it were, beginning the world, and it would be a thousand pities that he should get into bad hands." It may, however, be doubted whether Miss Cassewary was hoodwinked by this little story.
"Well; certainly not, I think." "But now it is necessary that all noblemen in England should rally to the defence of their order." Miss Cassewary was a great politician, and was one of those who are always foreseeing the ruin of their country. "My dear, I will go and take my bonnet off. Perhaps you will have tea when I come down."
On the following day, Tuesday, the Boncassens went, and then there were none of the guests left but Mrs. Finn and Lady Mabel Grex, with of course Miss Cassewary. The Duke had especially asked both Mrs.
There was no Lady Grex alive, but there lived with the Earl a certain elderly lady, reported to be in some distant way a cousin of the family, named Miss Cassewary, who, in the matter of looking after Lady Mab, did what was supposed to be absolutely necessary. She now entered the room with her bonnet on, having just returned from church. "What was the text?" asked Lady Mab at once.
Do you remember how Miss Cassewary looked?" "Miss Cassewary knew all about it." "I daresay she did. And so I suppose did Mabel Grex. I had thought that perhaps I might make Mabel a confidante, but " Then she looked up into his face. "But what?" "You like Mabel, do you not? I do." "I like her very, very much." "Perhaps you have liked her too well for that, eh, Frank?" "Too well for what?"
"I am not chaffing now in recommending you to go to work in the world like a man." As she said this they were sitting on the same sofa, but with some space between them. When Miss Cassewary had left the room Lord Silverbridge was standing, but after a little he had fallen into the seat, at the extreme corner, and had gradually come a little nearer to her.
"But it wouldn't suit me. There's papa. Don't run away." "It's ever so much past five," said the legislator, "and I had intended to be in the House more than an hour ago. Good-bye. Give my love to Miss Cassewary." "Certainly. Miss Cassewary is your most devoted friend. Won't you bring your sister to see me some day?" "When she is in town I will." "I should so like to know her. Good-bye."
Word Of The Day