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Do they still insist on their right to wait on you, even when Mrs Schwellenberg is present?" Miss Burney curtseyed, a little out of countenance. I put in my word: "Why, Ma'am, they are very constant. We have much entertainment from Colonel Manners and Mr de la Giffardiere especially the latter." "I can believe that," said she, laughing again. "His spirits grow more boisterous daily.
Miss Burney rose indignantly, and the more so as Mr de la Giffardiere, who could never resist the absurd, was applauding vehemently, and even Colonel Digby smiling. She cast one awful glance upon the offender, and was quitting the room, when Colonel Digby threw himself in front of the door.
"Miss Burney is so evidently the Muse of Comedy," cried Mr de la Giffardiere, "that I wonder you, Manners, and you, Digby, do not fear her ironic pen. What if she record this scene in the third volume, for which all the world attends! There are only two persons who will emerge with grace Miss P. and myself. We tread on awful ground with a lady so gifted." Mrs.
"The equerries will attend us at tea today, Miss P.," she observed. "Colonel Manners and Colonel Digby will be present and Mr de la Giffardiere. Colonel Digby's spirits depend much upon female support and sustentation. He loves to contemplate the melancholy aspects in a way which cannot but be harmful to a character so feeling." I replied collectedly:
I own the thought sometimes occurred to me that he might be that most despicable of characters a male flirt. I had thoughts sometimes also of a word of warning to Miss Burney, but was restrained by fear of her displeasure. Two days later Colonel Manners and Colonel Digby waited on us to tea, Mr de la Giffardiere following.
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