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Updated: June 12, 2025
Lesbia entered Seraphine's Louis-seize drawing-room with a faint expectation of unpleasantness; but after a little whispering between Lady Kirkbank and the dressmaker, the latter came to Lesbia smiling graciously, and seemingly full of eagerness for new orders. 'Miladi says you want something of the most original tant soit peu risqué for 'Enley, she said.
Lady Maulevrier felt that Georgie Kirkbank was her strong rock. So long as Lesbia was under that astute veteran's wing there could be no danger. In that embodied essence of worldliness and diplomacy, there was an ever-present defence from all temptations that spring from romance and youthful impulses.
We all adore her, but not as a guide for youth. As a specimen of the elderly female of the latter half of the nineteenth century, she is perfect. Such gush, such juvenility, such broad views, such an utter absence of starch; but as a lamp for the footsteps of girlhood no there we must pause. 'You are very ungrateful. Do you know that poor Lady Kirkbank has been most strenuous in your behalf?
I am not a pauper, Lady Kirkbank, and the home to which I shall take my love is pretty enough for a princess of the blood royal, and for her sake I shall grow richer yet, he added, with his eyes kindling; 'and if you care to pay us a visit next February in our Parisian apartment I will promise you as pleasant a nest as you can wish to occupy.
'I should think not, indeed, interjected Lesbia. 'But which poor Belle was only too delighted to get. 'Miss Trinder must be very bad style, said Lesbia, with languid scorn, 'and Mr. Smithson is an execrable person. Did she die? 'No, my dear, she is alive poor soul! 'You said she broke her heart. "The heart may break, yet brokenly live on," quoted Lady Kirkbank.
I would have brought them together myself, could I have but gone to London; but, failing that, I fancied Lady Kirkbank would have divined my wishes without being told them, and would have introduced Hartfield to Lesbia; and now the London season is drawing to a close, and Hartfield and Lesbia have never met. He hardly goes anywhere, I am told.
'What a genius you are, Fifine, exclaimed Lady Kirkbank, rapturously. 'The Faute dans le Passé was only produced last week. No one will have thought of copying Chaumont's gowns yet awhile. The idea is an inspiration. 'What is the boating costume like? asked Lady Lesbia, faintly. 'An exquisite combination of simplicity with vlan, answered the dressmaker.
He shook hands with Lady Lesbia as he spoke, and with Lady Kirkbank, who looked at him as if he were part of her dream, and then he sank into the chair on Lesbia's left hand, with the air of being established for the rest of the day. 'I have left my portmanteaux at the end of the pier, he said lazily. 'I dare say one of your fellows will be good enough to take them to Formosa for me? Mr.
Of course Lesbia's grandfather had been a great man Governor of Madras; altogether an important and celebrated person and Lady Kirkbank had meant nothing, could have meant nothing to his disparagement.
Hamilton Hammond, I mean should have the audacity to follow you to Kirkbank, and to intrude himself upon you there perhaps to persecute you with clandestine addresses 'I do not believe he would do anything clandestine, said Lesbia, drawing herself up. 'He is quite above that. 'My dear child, we know absolutely nothing about him.
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