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"No, no, I can't sit, can't stay," said Lady Cecilia. A look quickly visible, and quickly suppressed, showed Lady Castlefort's sense of relief; then came immediately greater pressing to sit down, "Pray do not be in such a hurry. "But I am keeping you; have you breakfasted?" "Taken coffee in my own room," said Lady Castlefort "But you have people to breakfast; must not you go down?"
I was more in love with him than when first we were married, and he saw it, but that did not restore me to his confidence his esteem; nothing could have done that, but what I had not. One step in dissimulation led to another. "After Lord Beltravers returned from Paris on Lady Blanche's marriage, I used to meet him continually at Louisa Castlefort's.
"Is the book published?" She held the paper before Lady Castlefort's eyes, and pointed to the name she could not utter. "D'Aubigny's book is it published, do you mean?" said Lady Castlefort. "Absolutely published, I cannot say, but it is all in print, I know. I do not understand about publishing.
"Shocking! shocking! all came to an eclat esclandre; a scene quite, last night, I am told, at my friend Lady Castlefort's. Sad sad so young a lady!
The consternation of Constantine Blair, Lady Castlefort's dismay, the sad gossiping and head-shaking that went on in the streets of Henstead and round old Mr. Foster's comfortable board, witnessed to a side of Quisanté in which Mrs. Baxter did not take much interest.
To the boudoir Cecilia went, but Lady Castlefort was not there, and Cecilia was surprised to hear the sound of music in the drawing-room, Lady Castlefort's voice singing.
May's laugh relieved him a little. "The Dean's very forgiving," she said, "and Alexander's doing well now, anyhow, isn't he?" The Dean agreed that he was doing well now for in spite of his disclaimers of partisanship there was a spice of the fighting man in the Dean and repeated Lady Castlefort's prophecy, reported to him by Lady Richard. The rusty black bonnet nodded approvingly.
She had set off, she told him, as soon as she was able, for Lady Castlefort's, to inquire into the meaning of the strange whispers of the preceding night.
A sort of farce this is to the 'Double Distress, a comedy; in short, one of Lord Castlefort's brothers is going to stand for the City, and citizens and citoyennes must be propitiated.
Without taking in the full force of this observation in its particular application to the hatred which Lord Beltravers might feel to Miss Stanley, as the successful rival of his sister Blanche, Beauclerc hastened to act upon his suggestion. His lordship was not at home: his people thought he had been at Lady Castlefort's; did not know where he might be if not there.
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