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Her stepmother seemed to want her at every turn, and when at length she found herself free, young Lord Harfield appeared at her elbow. It was intolerable. She turned upon him without pity. "Oh, please," she said, "I've dropped my fan in the dining-room or on the stairs. Would you be so kind "
When she was returning, however, her youthful admirer, Lord Harfield, attached himself to her, refusing to be discouraged. "I met your cousin at the Club yesterday," he told her. "What is he like?" Priscilla asked, without much interest. "Oh, haven't you seen him yet? A very queer fish, with a twang you could cut with a knife.
This news about Willy fixed the Harfield ball in Frank's thoughts, and he remembered the pretty girl in white of whom he could make nothing, of the raw just-brought-out girl who had bored him, of the communicative girl who had amused him by her accounts of her dogs and horses; he remembered, too, how he had seen Maggie disappearing down the ends of certain passages with a young man whose name he did not catch, and whose face he had not noticed.
That evening Priscilla found a letter from her stepmother awaiting her a briefly worded, urgent summons. "Your cousin has not arrived, after all," it said. "Your father and I are greatly disappointed. Would it not be as well for you to return to town? You can scarcely, I fear, afford to waste your time in this fashion. Young Lord Harfield was asking for you most solicitously only yesterday.
Don't think you'll like him," said Lord Harfield, who was jealous of every man who so much as bowed to Priscilla. Priscilla smiled faintly. "I don't think so, either," she said. "You are coming to dine with us to-night, aren't you? He will be there too." "Will he? I say, what a bore for you! Yes, I'm coming. I'll do my best to help you," the boy assured her eagerly. And again Priscilla smiled.
The -th was quartered at Harfield, within easy distance, and a splendid looking fellow like Regie was invaluable to Victoria, whenever she wanted anything to go off well. Well, in those days I had a ward, my mother's great niece, Maude Conway.
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