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"Oh! yes, Miss Vernon, the dear tights put everything else out of my head; well, as I was saying, Major Delrose longed to be near the Hall, and as the Colonel does not take to him, you see he is a little attentive to Mrs. Haughton, and the dear thing likes him, dear Charles was just like the Colonel, if men have handsome wives they don't like men to admire them; so Mrs.
Haughton." "What a whirl the brain of the slender waist Duchess must be in, and what a bore she was to you; so she also goes to Haughton. Fancy uncle on one side, and Major Delrose, the Rose Cottage people, Mrs.
Just as she entered the drawing-rooms, Trevalyon, who had evidently had a word with Delrose, judging from the look of defiance on the face of the latter as he left his side, now walked up to Colonel Haughton, seated at the end of the rooms beside Lady Esmondet, with whom he had been conversing earnestly, and said: "Haughton, dear friend, kindly ask your guests to give me their attention for a few minutes."
"Or the heat from the orbs of Everly as he gazes on the approaching belle would do the business," echoed Delrose.
There being a sort of free-masonry between Madame and Delrose, the movements of each being rarely unobserved by the other, she was about to play into his hands by signalling her sisterhood to rise from the table, when Sir Lionel Trevalyon was announced, who, hastily coming to her side, taking her hand in salutation, said: "You will kindly give me a few moments, Mrs.
"George Delrose, dare to repeat one word of a conversation you played the sneak to listen to, and you shall come to grief." And she started to her feet, receding several paces from him in rage and mortification. "Kate, dear, forgive me," and he is beside her; and strong man that he is, he holds her by force in his arms until she is still. "It is my love for you that maddens me.
"Unveil the statue, Delrose," whispered Lord Rivers; for society was watching and listening with itching ears for more, and a pinfall could have been heard. "Unveil her, she'll let you, if she have any charms to show," he continued lazily.
"I am no mean sneak, sir; so I'll show you the likeness of my father to excuse my staring at you like a cad;" and he handed it to Delrose who did not take it, Kate doing so, but he had recognised the case on the boy taking it from his breast.
"Don't take that tone with me Kate, or by heaven he shall suffer." "Good-night Major Delrose," she said mockingly. "I leave your presence, sans ceremonie as you entered mine." And with the gas-light lighting up red-robes, jewels, coal-black tresses and a smile all cruel, she was about to leave him. "Stay, Kate, I command you.
"George Delrose Ponton is my name, Madame;" and with one hand to his breast, where the miniature lay, he again pushed his way through the groups of revellers. "A speech from the throne could not have been given with more dignity than the poor fatherless little fellow gives his name," said Vaura, pityingly.
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