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From others, a too fast hazarded broadside of questions and answers glads and sorrys in chain-shots that did no execution, because there was no good aim congratulations and condolences playing at cross purposes These were mistakes, misfortunes, which could never occur in Lady Cecilia's natural grace and acquired tact of manner.
I forget exactly what the matter was: but he sneered at priests and morality. A smile wove round Cecilia's lips, and in her towering superiority to one who talked nonsense, she slipped out of maiden shame and said: 'Attack Nevil for his political heresies and his wrath with the Press for not printing him. The rest concerns his honour, where he is quite safe, and all are who trust him.
She sat she knew not how long, till, roused by the opening of Cecilia's door, she hastened to put away the papers. "Let me see them, my dear, don't put away those papers," cried Cecilia; "Felicie tells me that you have been at these horrid accounts these two hours, and you look my dear Helen, you must let me see how much it is!" She drew the total from beneath Helen's hand.
All seemed indeed to smile upon her prospects, and the only clouds which dimmed the sunshine were Cecilia's insincerity, and her feeling that the general thought her acting unhandsomely and unwisely towards his ward; but she consoled herself with the thought that he could not judge of what he did not know, that she did not deserve his displeasure, that Granville was satisfied, and if he was, why should not General Clarendon be so too?
I only wish one could say the same of his wig. "You have dusted his jacket for him famously, Horace, I think," said the aide-de-camp. At this instant the door opened, and in came the doctor himself. Lady Cecilia's hand was outstretched with her note, thinking, as the door opened, that she should see the servant come in, for whom she had rung.
She had not quite arranged in her mind what she could now do in the matter, but for "dear Cecilia's" sake she was sure that something must be done. And she was angry with herself at allowing herself to be turned out of the house before the crisis had come. She felt that she ought to have been present at the crisis, and that by the exercise of her own powers she might have hurried on the crisis.
Then he patted my cheek, and said, "You're a beauty, Elizabeth," and Lady Cecilia's eyes bulged at him a good deal, and she said to me, "Wouldn't you like to see your room?" and I said I wasn't a bit in a hurry, but she took me off, and here I am; and I am going to wear my pink silk for dinner, and will finish this by-and-by.
A little surprised at herself, Cecilia answered "Too much for me!" Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace smiled. "I mean in art and social questions. Surely one can't be too interested in them?" Cecilia said rather hastily: "Oh no, of course not." And both ladies looked around them. A buzz of conversation fell on Cecilia's ears. "Have you seen the 'Aftermath'? It's really quite wonderful!"
The words, "since you are engaged," "you know you are engaged," she was on the point of adding, but Lady Cecilia's injunctions not to tell him that she had betrayed his secret stopped her. He looked at her for an instant, and then abruptly, and in great agitation, said; "May I ask, Miss Stanley, if your affections are engaged?" "Is that a question, Mr. Beauclerc, which you have a right to ask me?"
Cecilia's gratitude for this delicacy, would instantly have induced her to tell every secret of her soul, had she not apprehended such a confession would have seemed soliciting her interest and assistance, in the only affair in which she would have disdained even to receive them.
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