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It alarmed Madeleine, who suddenly opened the door. Sybil recovered herself, and, her eyes streaming with tears, presented Victoria to her sister: "Madeleine, allow me to introduce you to the Countess Dunbeg!" But Mrs. Lee was much too anxious to feel any interest in Lady Dunbeg.
I never could understand a word of him before so I never tried. Who do you think is engaged? Victoria Dare, to a coronet and a peat-bog, with Lord Dunbeg attached. Victoria says she is happier than she ever was before in any of her other engagements, and she is sure this is the real one.
She declared herself to be the moral image of Martha Washington, and she started a discussion whether Carrington or Lord Dunbeg would best suit her in the rôle of the General. "Mr. Carrington is exemplary," she said, "but oh, what joy to be Martha Washington and a Countess too!"
Lord Dunbeg, how would you recommend a friend to choose a Countess?" Lord Dunbeg began to be amused by her impudence, and he even tried to lay down for her satisfaction one or two rules for selecting Countesses, but long before he had invented his first rule, Victoria had darted off to a new subject. "Which would you rather be, Lord Dunbeg? an Earl or George Washington?"
"Unless I were a Countess!" continued Victoria, meditatively, looking at Alexandria, and paying no attention to his lordship; "I think I could manage if I were a C-c-countess. It is such a pretty title!" "Duchess is commonly thought a prettier one," stammered Dunbeg, much embarrassed. The young man was not used to chaff from women. "I should be satisfied with Countess. It sounds well.
Is it an American serial?" gasped Dunbeg, trying hard to keep pace with Miss Dare in her reckless dashes across country. "No, not serial at all!" replied Virginia; "but I am afraid you would find it very hard reading. I shouldn't try." "Do you read it much, Miss Dare?" "Oh, always! I am not really as light as I seem. But then I have an advantage over you because I know the language."
You may tell the hall porter to order a cab for me, a four-wheeler. I have a good deal of luggage." "She had," said Meldon; "I saw it when we got out at Dunbeg station, and it wasn't all there, for one of her trunks had got lost on the way." "'Our representative, read the Major, 'shook hands with Mrs. Lorimer as she entered the cab. The order given to the driver was Euston station.
Why, not one of us would be here without that dreadful Capitol! except, perhaps, myself." "You would appear very well as Mrs. Washington, Victoria." "Miss Dare has been so very obliging as to give us her views of General Washington's character this morning," said Dunbeg, "but I have not yet had time to ask Mr. Carrington for his."
Carrington and Gore burst into shouts of laughter over this description of the Father of his country, but Victoria continued in her gentle drawl to enlighten Lord Dunbeg in regard to other subjects with information equally mendacious, until he decided that she was quite the most eccentric person he had ever met.
The only difference in their position was that their wages would no longer be paid by Sir Tony. They would receive much larger wages, the almost incredible sum of twenty-five shillings a week, from the Government. Next day the four Malones drove over to Dunbeg and applied for out-of-work pay at the Labour Exchange.
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