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But I did not expect you to leave me so entirely without help to refuse me absolutely as far as words go after what you did. If it had not been for that I should never have ventured to call. I might otherwise have supposed your interest to be fixed in another quarter; but your acting in that manner encouraged me to think you could listen to a word. 'What do you allude to? said Ethelberta.
She did not object to the act, but to the avowal of the act; and, being as sensitive as a barometer on signs affecting her social condition, it darted upon Ethelberta for one little moment that he might possibly have heard a word or two about her being nothing more nor less than one of a tribe of thralls; hence his freedom of manner.
'Could it not be sent for? suggested an enthusiast who knew that Ethelberta lived only in the next street, appealing by a look to her, and then to the mistress of the house. 'Certainly, let us send for it, said that lady. A footman was at once quietly despatched with precise directions as to where Christopher's sweet production might be found.
It is about him that I was going to tell you. Picotee proceeded to relate Menlove's account of the story of Ethelberta's escapade, which had been dragged from Neigh the previous evening by the friend to whom he had related it before he was so enamoured of Ethelberta as to regard that performance as a positive virtue in her.
'Yes; I walked round, said Ethelberta faintly. Neigh was decidedly master of the position at last; but he spoke as if he did not value that. His knowledge had furnished him with grounds for calling upon her, and he hastened to undeceive her from supposing that he could think ill of any motive of hers which gave him those desirable grounds.
The woman blushed. 'They meant Miss Gruchette. 'Oh a nickname. 'Yes. 'Why? The woman whispered why in a story of about two minutes' length. Ethelberta turned pale. 'Is she going to return? she inquired, in a thin hard voice. 'Yes; next week. You know her, m'm? 'No. I am a stranger. 'So much the better.
There was consternation in the camp for a moment or two, on account of poor Picotee, Ethelberta being not without firmness in matters of discipline. Her eye instantly lighted upon her disobedient sister, now looking twice as disobedient as she really was. 'O, you are here, Picotee? I am glad to see you, said the mistress of the house quietly.
And then he could fancy he heard words between Ethelberta and the viscount within the room; they were evidently at very close quarters, and dexterity must have been required of her. He went on tiptoe across the gravel to the grass, and once on that he strode in the direction whence he had come.
Ethelberta had not seen her aunt since she last passed through the town with Lady Petherwin, who then told her that this landlady was the only respectable relative she seemed to have in the world.
The poor musician, whose person, much to his own inconvenience, constituted a complete breviary of the gentle emotions, looked as if he were going to fall down in a faint. Ethelberta flung at Lord Mountclere a look which clipped him like pincers: he never forgot it as long as he lived.
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