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"Indeed!" said Caroline. "Well, I envy you; but is it a sudden resolution?" "Not very." "Do you stay long?" asked Lord Doltimore. "My stay is uncertain." "And you won't let Burleigh in the meanwhile?" "Let Burleigh? No; if it once pass from my hands it will be forever!" Maltravers spoke gravely, and the subject was changed. Lord Doltimore challenged Caroline to chess.
Lord Doltimore was playing with Colonel Legard, one of the best players in Europe, but who, fortunately for Doltimore, had of late made it a rule never to play for money. Mrs. and the Misses Cipher, and most of the guests, were in the billiard-room looking on. Lady Raby was writing letters, and Lord Raby riding over his home farm.
I am foolish, indeed, to be so sad in obtaining the very object I have sought! Poor Doltimore! he little knows the nature, the feelings of her whom he thinks he has made the happiest of her sex; he little knows " Caroline paused, turned pale as death, and then went rapidly on, "but you, Evelyn, you will meet the same fate; we shall bear it together." "No! no! do not think so!
Lumley smiled, and changed the conversation; and so agreeable did he make himself, that when the party broke up, and Lumley had just shaken hands with his host, Doltimore came to him, and said in a little confusion, "I think I can put off Legard if if you " "That's delightful! What time shall we start? need not get down much before dinner one o'clock?"
At length, close beside him he heard that voice, the lightest sound of which could send the blood rushing through his veins; and from his retreat he saw Caroline and Evelyn, seated close by. "I beg pardon," said the former, in a low voice, "I beg pardon, Evelyn, for calling you away; but I longed to tell you. The die is cast. Lord Doltimore has proposed, and I have accepted him! Alas, alas!
Merton, drawing the clothes over her. "Lord Doltimore is a very fine young man, his estates unencumbered. I like him vastly, my love. He is evidently smitten with Caroline: so Lord Vargrave and Mrs. Hare said." "Sensible, shrewd woman, Mrs. Hare. By the by, we'll send her a pineapple. Caroline was made to be a woman of rank!" "Quite; so much self-possession!" "And if Mr.
"Lord Vargrave again?" and Evelyn's smile vanished, and she turned away. "Ah," said Caroline, "I should have made Vargrave an excellent wife pity he does not think so! As it is, I must set up for myself and become a maitresse femme. So you think I look well to-night? I am glad of it Lord Doltimore is one who will be guided by what other people say." "You are not serious about Lord Doltimore?"
He looked at me sternly this morning, and said, 'You seem unhappy, madam; this marriage of Lord Vargrave's distresses you!" "I warned you how it would be, your own selfishness will betray and ruin you." "Do not reproach me, man!" said Lady Doltimore, with great vehemence. "From you at least I have a right to pity, to forbearance, to succour. I will not bear reproach from you."
He descanted with gay good-humour on his long drive, the bad roads, and his disappointment at the contretemps that awaited him; then, drawing aside Colonel Legard, who seemed unusually silent and abstracted, he said to him, "My dear colonel, my visit this morning was rather to you than to Doltimore.
"Oh, I can detect the attraction; but certainly it is a fair one, the handsomest girl in the county; pity she has no money." "I don't care for money," said Lord Doltimore, colouring, and settling his chin in his neckcloth; "but you are mistaken; I have no thoughts that way. Miss Merton is a very fine girl, but I doubt much if she cares for me.
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