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'Bodley race-ball! he cried; and looking at Lady Jocelyn: 'Was your ladyship there, then? Why ha! ha! why, you have seen the Great Mel, then! That tremendous footman was old Mel himself! Lady Jocelyn struck both her hands on the table, and rested her large grey eyes, full of humorous surprise, on Mr. George. There was a pause, and then the ladies and gentlemen laughed. 'Yes, Mr.
Then one mornin' when Farmer Jocelyn was a-walkin' with the baby in the fields I said to 'im, secret-like 'That ain't your child! an' he sez 'Ow do you know it ain't? An' I sez Because I saw it come with a stranger' an' he laughed an' said 'It may be mine for all that! But I knew it worn't! A nice little girl she is too, Miss Innocent poor soul!
"Priscilla can tell you all about it," she continued, tremulously "if you wish to know more. I am only explaining things a little because I do want you to understand that Dad was really a good man though he did not go to Church and he must have been 'saved, as you put it, for he never did anything unworthy of the name of Jocelyn!" The clergyman thought a moment.
"While your Majesty is in this gracious mood," said De Gondomar, bending lowly, "suffer me to prefer a request respecting a person of very inferior consequence to Sir Jocelyn but one in whom I nevertheless take an interest and who is likewise a prisoner in the Fleet." "And ye require a warrant for his liberation ah, Count?" "Your Majesty has said it," replied De Gondomar, again bending lowly.
Indeed, he detained me for some minutes in the road, trying to extract particulars about the wedding. 'Miss Jocelyn is to be bridesmaid, then? describing a circle with his stick in the dust. 'Yes. Poor Sara is afraid that she will be quite overshadowed by Jill's bigness; she has made her promise not to stand quite close. They have got a match for her.
"Your Majesty overwhelms me by your commendations," replied Sir Jocelyn; "and I can only say, in reply, that my best energies shall be devoted to your service, whenever and howsoever called upon.
"You wouldn't think it to look at her after seein' him, would you?" Never having seen either of them, Conniston remained non-committal. "Mrs. Bat Truxton was a Boston, Mass., girl, an' I reckon as how Miss Jocelyn takes after her." So there had sprung up between the two men a strange sort of friendship, a strange sort of intimacy.
The two had strolled together to the side of the ship to watch a shoal of porpoises go by. "I see that you are acquainted with our hero of the seaplane," Jocelyn Thew remarked. She nodded. "I met him once at Washington and once at the polo games." "Tell me what you think of him?" She smiled. "Well," she confessed, "I scarcely know how to think of him.
Jocelyn was busy over the stove at the moment and did not see Mildred's strong cautionary gesture; but Belle's perceptions were almost instantaneous, and with one significant glance of her dark eyes she entered into the loving conspiracy. "What is it, Belle?" was Mrs. Jocelyn's anxious query.
This suspense was terrible, and Sir Jocelyn found it so difficult of endurance, that he would have preferred the actual presence of the calamity by which he was threatened. His fears were, that the claim he so much dreaded would be made by Sir Giles Mompesson in person, and in that case he had determined forcibly to resist him.
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