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The young Duke offered his hand to Miss Dacre, and, followed by their companions, they were in a few minutes lost in the waves of the waltzers. A Complaisant Spouse THE gaieties of the race-week closed with a ball at Dallington House.
It was unusual, to be sure, these rifacimentos; still she was a charming woman; and it was well known that Lucius had spent twenty thousand on the county. Where was that to come from, they should like to know, but from old Dallington Vere's Yorkshire estates, which he had so wisely left to his pretty wife by the pink paper codicil? And this lady of so many loves, how felt she?
'Bores have succeeded to dragons, and I have shivered too many lances in vain ever to hope for their extirpation; and as for enchantments 'They depend only upon yourself, gallantly interrupted the Duke of Burgundy. Psha! Burlington. 'Our spells are dissolved, our wands are sunk five fathom deep; we had retired to this solitude, and we were moralising, said Mrs. Dallington Vere.
No sooner had this incident taken place than did Mrs. Dallington Vere hurry to London, and soon evinced a most laudable determination to console herself for her husband's political disabilities. Mrs. Dallington Vere went to Court; and Mrs. Dallington Vere gave suppers after the opera, and concerts which, in number and brilliancy, were only equalled by her balls.
James at Cleve Park, his host, Sir Lucius Grafton, received the following note from Mrs. Dallington Vere: 'Castle Dacre, , 182 . 'My dear Baronet, 'Your pigeon has flown, otherwise I should have tied this under his wing, for I take it for granted he is trained too dexterously to alight anywhere but at Cleve. 'I confess that in this affair your penetration has exceeded mine.
Dallington Vere. Certain it is he was a devoted admirer of that lady. Of that lady, however, a less favoured rival chose one day to say that which staggered the romance of the impassioned youth. In a moment of rashness, impelled by sacred feelings, it is reported, at least, for the whole is a mystery, he communicated what he had heard with horror to the mistress of his destinies.
'The point, Bertha, said Sir Lucius, very quietly, 'is not that I can no longer count upon you as an ally; but I must, I perceive, reckon you an opponent. 'Cannot we prevent this? asked Mrs. Dallington with energy. 'I see no alternative, said Sir Lucius, shaking his head with great unconcern. 'Time will prove who will have to congratulate the other. 'My friend, said Mrs.
Dallington, with briskness and decision, 'no affectation between us. Drop this assumed unconcern. You know, you know well, that no incident could occur to you at this moment more mortifying than the one I have communicated, which deranges your plans, and probably may destroy your views. You cannot misconceive my motives in making this not very agreeable communication.
I cannot tell, unless it be, While all the rest are dancing, The Lady Alice, on the sea, With brightest eyes is glancing, Or muses on the twilight hour Will bring Childe Dacre to her bower. Mrs. Dallington Vere advances as the Lady Alice. Her walk is abrupt, her look anxious and distracted; she seems to be listening for some signal.
Considering that Robert Sidney, afterwards Earl of Leicester, had only £1OO a year for a tour abroad, and that Sir Robert Dallington declares £200 to be quite enough for a gentleman studying in France or Italy including pay for a servant and that any more would be "superfluous and to his hurte," it will be seen that the Earl of Oxford had £5500 "to his hurte."
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