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Updated: June 2, 2025
'I'm not absent, and then Philippa seeing what might be implied, blushes a rosy red, and rising says, 'We must go back now, I promised Lord Helmdon this dance, and he'll never find me here. Ah! there he is. 'Are you so anxious to dance with him? asks Jimmy in a would-be indifferent tone. 'Yes, of course, she replies, 'I like him so much, don't you?
Helmdon conducting Philippa and his sister with the ever constant Jimmy, carefully fights shy of his father.
'Certainly, she answers, all her attention absorbed in the button which is just half in the button-hole, one little poke and 'there it's done, she says. But alas! it is done indeed, for there is an ominous crack, and a large split is seen right across it. 'What a nuisance, says Helmdon, gazing at the torn article. 'Oh I hope it wasn't my fault, says Lippa. 'No; not at all, I assure you
Captain Harkness eyes Lippa from the distance, and when they reach their destination prepares to assist her to alight, when Lord Helmdon clumsily treads on her dress just as she is about to jump down on the platform; no great damage is done, and Chubby, profuse in apologies, wins Miss Seaton's heart by the plain distress depicted on his countenance, and a safety pin which he produces and with which he fastens up the torn gathers, and before they come to the river, they are on quite friendly terms, much to the disgust of Harkness, who has been attacked by his hostess's youngest daughter.
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