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Updated: July 6, 2025


Alack! how becoming were these concoctions to minxes with fair hair and sylphlike frames! Kitty was radiant, triumphant; and Ashe was certain that Lady Grosville knew it, however she might barricade herself behind the Times.

"Certainly not she has had ample time," said Lady Grosville, and rang the bell beside her. Suddenly there was a whirlwind of noise in the hall, the angry barking of a small dog, the sound of a girl's voice laughing and scolding, the swish of silk skirts. A scandalized butler, obeying Lady Grosville's summons, threw the door open, and in burst Lady Kitty. "Oh!

He merely insisted that he knew Lady Grosville to be a bit of an old cat; that of course there was something up; but it seemed a shame for those at least who accepted Madame d'Estrées' hospitality to believe the worst. There was a curious mixture of carelessness and delicacy in his remarks, very characteristic of the man.

Kitty meanwhile sat with suspended fingers and laughing eyes, waiting on her aunt's movements. "Kitty, pray don't let me interfere with your playing," said Lady Grosville, with severe politeness "but perhaps you would kindly put it off for half an hour. I am now going to read to the servants " "Gracious!" said Kitty, springing up. "I was going to play Mr. Cliffe some Offenbach."

Ashe looked a moment. "Extraordinarily bewitching! unlike other people?" he said, turning to the mother. Madame d'Estrées raised her eyebrows a little, in apparent amusement. "I'm not going to describe Kitty. She's indescribable. Besides you must find her out. Do go and talk to her. She's to be half with me, half with her aunt Lady Grosville." Ashe made some polite comment.

"Kitty apparently enjoyed a moonlight walk with Cliffe. Why shouldn't she? Lady Grosville thinks the moon was made to sleep by other people don't." "But, William! at night when everybody had gone to bed escaping from the house they two alone!" Lady Tranmore looked at him entreatingly, as though driven to protest, and yet hating the sound of her own words. Ashe laughed.

But this is Sunday, and she will give us something in a different vein." Lady Grosville, who had risen impatiently, sat down again. There was a general movement; chairs were turned or drawn forward till a circle formed.

Do you know that Pitt once wrote a speech in the library?" "Did he? I'm sure it never made such a stir as Ponto did." Kitty's face suddenly broke into laughter, and she hid it a moment in her hands. "You brazen it out," said Ashe; "but how are you going to appease Lady Grosville?" Kitty ceased to laugh. She drew herself up, and looked seriously, observantly at her aunt. "I don't know.

"Kitty is ridiculously overdressed," said Lady Grosville. "I hope we shall soon change that. My girls are going to take her to their woman." Lady Edith put up her eye-glass slowly and looked at the two Grosville girls; then back at Kitty. Meanwhile a few perfunctory questions and answers were passing between Miss Lyster and her companion.

Rather more than a fortnight after the evening at Madame d'Estrées', William Ashe found himself in a Midland train on his way to the Cambridgeshire house of Lady Grosville. While the April country slipped past him like some blanched face to which life and color are returning Ashe divided his time between an idle skimming of the Saturday papers and a no less idle dreaming of Kitty Bristol.

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