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When the work before one is dancing the proper thing for a gentleman to do is, at any rate, to ask a lady; this proper thing Lord Lufton had omitted, and now the prize was taken away from under his very nose. There was clearly an air of triumph about Lord Dumbello as he walked away with the beauty.
"How I do wish they were married and done with," said the countess; "and then we should hear no more about them." All of which Lady Dumbello heard and understood; and in all of it she took a certain interest. She remembered such things, learning thereby who was who, and regulating her own conduct by what she learned.
To see him and his granddaughter together!" "And who is his granddaughter?" "Why Lady Dumbello, as will be the Marchioness of Hartletop." "I know Lady Dumbello," said Crosbie; not meaning, however, to boast to the verger of his noble acquaintance.
As this is just the thing for your taste, I would not for worlds disturb you; but if you should ever tear yourself away from the groves and fountains of Allington, we shall be delighted to welcome you here, though you will find us very unromantic after your late Elysium. Lady Dumbello is coming to us, who I know is a favourite of yours. Or is it the other way, and are you a favourite of hers?
Whatever attractions she may have lacked, she had at any rate created for herself a great reputation. She had spent two months of the last spring in London, and even there she had made a sensation; and people had said that Lord Dumbello, Lady Hartletop's eldest son, had been peculiarly struck with her. It may be imagined that the archdeacon was proud of her, and so, indeed, was Mrs.
As regards Lady Dumbello, however, the bargain was not fairly carried out; for, after all, Mr Palliser came to Courcy Castle only for two nights and a day, and during the whole of that day he was closeted with sundry large blue-books. As for Lady de Courcy, she did not care how he might be employed. Blue-books and Lady Dumbello were all the same to her.
But that which seems so innocent to us had been looked on in a different light by the stern moralists of that house. "By Jove!" said the Honourable George to his cousin, Mr Gresham, "I wonder how Dumbello likes it." "It seems to me that Dumbello takes it very easily."
"I like a good dinner all the same," said Lord Dumbello. "Oh, yes, of course of course. I am by no means one of those who would pretend to preach that our tastes have not been given to us for our enjoyment. Why should things be nice if we are not to like them?" "A man who can really give a good dinner has learned a great deal," said Lord Dumbello, with unusual animation. "An immense deal.
Thus the matter was discussed, and it appeared to them both to be so serious that the archdeacon resolved to go at once to London. That Lord Dumbello had gone to France he did not doubt; but he would find some one in town acquainted with the young man's intentions, and he would, no doubt, be able to hear when his return was expected.
You think that I am asking much of you; but you should remember that hitherto I have given much and have asked nothing. I expect you to oblige me in this matter." Then Mr Plantagenet Palliser left the room, knowing that he had been threatened. What the duke had said amounted to this If you go on dangling after Lady Dumbello, I'll stop the seven thousand a year which I give you.
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