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'And what will Miladi herself wear? asked the French woman of Lady Kirkbank. 'She must have something of new. 'No, at my age, it doesn't matter. I shall wear one of my cotton frocks, and my Dunstable hat. Lesbia shuddered, for Lady Kirkbank in her cotton frock was a spectacle at which youth laughed and age blushed. But after all it did not matter to Lesbia.
But while Lesbia was treading the tortuous mazes of fashion, it was well for her to be guided and guarded by such an old campaigner as Lady Kirkbank, a woman who, in the language of her friends, 'knew the ropes.
Sir George and a couple of his horsey friends were waiting for supper when Lady Kirkbank and her party arrived in Arlington Street. The dining-room looked a picture of comfort.
'You! a foreigner, an adventurer, who may be as poor as Job, for anything I know about you. 'Job was once rather comfortably off, Lady Kirkbank; and I can answer for it that Montesma's wife will know none of the pangs of poverty. 'If you were a beggar I would not care, said Lesbia, drawing nearer to him.
'I should hope that such settlements as I am in a position to make will convince Lady Maulevrier that I am a respectable suitor for her granddaughter, ex peerage, he said, somewhat haughtily. 'My dear Smithson, did I not tell you that poor Lady Maulevrier is a century behind the times, exclaimed Lady Kirkbank, with an aggrieved look.
I have never missed a season for the last thirty years, unless we have been abroad. 'Please, don't innoculate Lesbia with your love of sport. 'What! you wouldn't like her to shoot? Well, perhaps you are right. It is hardly the thing for a pretty girl with her fortune to make. It spoils the delicacy of the skin. But I'm afraid she'll find Kirkbank dull if she doesn't go out with the guns.
'It is very nice, but if you stayed I think I could promise you considerable variety. We shall have a tempest before morning. 'Of all things in the world I should love to see a thunderstorm at sea. 'Be on the alert then, and Captain Parkes and I will try to oblige you. 'At any rate you have made it impossible for me to sleep. I shall stay with Lady Kirkbank in the saloon. Good-night, again.
They went on deck presently and sat in the summer darkness, lighted only by the stars, and by the lights of the yachts, and the faintly gleaming windows of the lighted town, sat long and late, in a state of ineffable repose. Lady Kirkbank. fortified by the produce of Mr. Smithson's particular clos, and by a couple of glasses of green Chartreuse, slept profoundly.
'Give me a spoonful more brandy, my good creature, to Kibble. 'Lesbia, you ought never to have brought me into this miserable state. I consented to staying on board the yacht; but I never consented to sailing on her. 'You will soon be well, dear Lady Kirkbank; and you will have such an appetite for breakfast to-morrow morning. 'Where shall we be at breakfast time? 'Off St.
It was not their fault, these ingrates pleaded piteously; but Edward, or Henry, or Theodore, as the case might be, had a most cruel prejudice against dear Lady Kirkbank, and the young wives were obliged to obey.
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