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This speech, though particularly addressed to no one, received immediately an assenting answer from all the young ladies. Then, turning to Miss Larolles, "Don't you dance?" he said. "Me?" cried she, embarrassed, "yes, I believe so, really I don't know, I a'n't quite determined." "O, do dance!" cried he, stretching himself and yawning, "it always gives me spirits to see you."
Soon after, Miss Larolles, who was laughing immoderately, contrived to crowd herself into their party, calling out to them, "O you have had the greatest loss in the world! if you had but been in the next room just now! there's the drollest figure there you can conceive: enough to frighten one to look at him." And presently she added "O Lord, if you stoop a little this way, you may see him!"
"All our hearts, give me leave to add," said Captain Aresby just then advancing, "all our hearts must have been abimes, by the indisposition of Miss Larolles, had not their doom been fortunately revoked by the sight of Miss Beverley." "Well, this is excessive odd,", cried Miss Larolles, "that every body should run away so from poor Mrs Mears; she'll be so affronted you've no idea.
Just then Miss Larolles, tapping at the door, came in from the next box to speak to Mrs Harrel; with whom she stood chatting and laughing some minutes, without seeming to perceive that Cecilia was of her party. "Why, what have you done to the poor girl?" whispered Mr Gosport; "did you talk more than herself when you saw her last?"
"O pray," cried Miss Larolles, "don't let's talk about it, it's the cruellest thing I ever knew in my life. I assure you I was so shocked, I thought I should never have got the better of it. I remember the next night at Ranelagh I could talk of nothing else. I dare say I told it to 500 people. I assure you I was tired to death; only conceive how distressing!"
Here Mr Meadows, looking another way, began to whistle. "Lord," cried Miss Larolles, "how excessive distressing! to ask one questions, and then never hear what one answers!" Here the Captain returned alone; and Miss Larolles, flying to meet him, demanded where was her dog?
"O, I told her,", answered Morrice, with a nod of self-approbation for what he had done, "I told her it was you, for I knew I could soon overtake you." Displeasure at this officiousness was unavailing, for looking out of the window, she perceived Miss Larolles, followed by half her party, not three paces from the chaise. "O my dear creature," she called out, "what a terrible accident!
She could not do so, without comparing herself with Miss Larolles, the inimitable Miss Larolles; but still she did it, and not with much happier effect; though by what seemed prosperity in the shape of an early abdication in her next neighbours, she found herself at the very end of the bench before the concert closed.
"Lord, Mr Meadows," said Miss Larolles, "don't you know you are meaning the Pantheon? only conceive how you forget things!" "The Pantheon, was it? I never know one of those places from another. I heartily wish they were all abolished; I hate public places. 'Tis terrible to be under the same roof with a set of people who would care nothing if they saw one expiring!"
The next morning Cecilia, at the repeated remonstrances of Mrs Harrel, consented to call upon Miss Larolles.
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