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This one, however, was not unfruitful in the end. "And I," said Mrs. Lascelles, "how old do you think I am? Thirty-five?" "Of course not," I replied, with obvious gallantry. "But I doubt if Bob is even twenty." "Well, then, you won't believe me, but I was married before I was his age, and I am just six-and-twenty now." It was a surprise to me.
"Upon my honour, Mrs Lascelles, this smuggler appears to have made an impression which many have attempted in vain." Mrs Lascelles did not reply to that remark, but said, "Now, my lord, you must decide and I trust you will to oblige us treat him as he has treated us, with the greatest respect and kindness."
"Well, he might have thought the other fellow had been telling tales, and that I had come out to have an eye on him, if he had known that I happened to see his mother just before I started." There was another pause; but now I was committed to an attitude, and prepared for the worst. "Perhaps there would have been some truth in it?" suggested Mrs. Lascelles. "Perhaps," I agreed, "a little."
Lascelles took the surface of this speech, and bowed, whilst his lordship, turning to Miss Beaufort, began to compliment himself on possessing so fair an ally in defence of an absent person. "I never have seen him," replied she; "and what is more, I never heard of him, till on entering the room Mr. Lascelles arrested me for my opinion about him.
It was not advisable to remain at Torquay any longer, through fear of discovery; he, therefore, weighed the anchor before dinner, and made sail. "What do you intend to do now, my lord?" said Mrs Lascelles. "I intend to run down to Cowes, anchor the yacht in the night; and an hour before daylight have you in my boat with all my men.
All that he had been told by the countess of her favorable opinion of him, and the slander he had just heard from Diana's lover, were at once present in his mind. He was yet speaking, when Miss Beaufort, casually looking towards the other side of the room, saw her purse still acting the part of a handkerchief in the hand of Mr. Lascelles. "Look, Mr.
"I don't know what business it is of yours," said Mrs. Lascelles, bluntly; "and since he seems to have told you everything, neither do I know why you should ask me. However, it is quite true that I did not finally refuse him on the spot." This carefully qualified confirmation should have afforded me abundant satisfaction.
While gradually, however, his spirit recovered its usual elasticity, he came in the vicinity of Lord Saxingham's house, and suddenly, by a corner of the street, his arm was seized: to his inexpressible astonishment he recognised in the muffled figure that accosted him the form of Florence Lascelles. "Good heavens!" he cried, "is it possible?
After a while, Pickersgill and Corbett went down forward, and returned dressed in the smuggler's clothes, when they resumed their walk on the deck. In the mean time, it was dark; the cutter flew along the coast; and the Needles' lights were on the larboard bow. The conversation between Cecilia, Mrs Lascelles, and her father, was long.
"Which, of course, from its being communicated in an undertone, was not proper for all the company to hear," replied the elder Miss Ossulton; "but if Mrs Lascelles is now ready," continued she, bridling up, as she rose from her chair. "At all events, I can hear the remainder of it on deck," replied Mrs Lascelles.
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