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He was fully occupied; but Montesma had nothing to do, except to amuse Lady Lesbia and her chaperon, and in this onerous task he succeeded admirably.
'Your question has been answered by Lady Lesbia. She left a note for you, replied Lady Maulevrier. 'Thanks, answered Mr. Hammond, briefly, and he hurried from the room without another word. The letter was on the table in his bedroom. He had little hope of any good waiting for him in a letter so written. The dowager and the world had triumphed over a girl's dawning love, no doubt.
'Can you really pour out tea? gasped a callow lieutenant, gazing upon her with goggling, enraptured eyes. 'I did not think you could do anything so earthly. 'I can, and drink it too, answered Lesbia, laughing. 'I adore tea. Cream and sugar? 'I I beg your pardon how many? murmured the youth, who had lost himself in gazing, and no longer understood plain English. Mr.
'So do I in a picture. Titian's Queen of Cyprus, or any party of that kind; but for flesh and blood I like humility a woman who knows she is human, and not infallible, and only just a little better than you or me. When I choose a wife, she will be no such example of cultivated perfection as my sister Lesbia.
'Lady Lesbia Haselden is a very different person from a country parson's daughter, answered her chaperon; 'Smithson told me all about it afterwards. He was really taken with Belle's fine figure and good complexion; but one of her particular friends told him of her foolish talk about her sisters, and how well she meant to get them married when she was Mrs. Smithson. This disgusted him.
I used to see it in the old days, when you were breaking your heart for Lesbia. Why cannot you be frank and confide in me. It is your duty, sir, as my husband. 'Is it my duty to halve my burdens as well as my joys? How do I know if those girlish shoulders are strong enough to bear the weight of them? 'I can bear anything you can bear, and I won't be cheated out of my share in your worries.
Therefore what does Miss Burke mean by her audacious calumnies? What does she mean by saying that Alice made love to Sam, and never gave the "poor boy" a chance of escape? The fact is, Lesbia gave herself the airs, and received the privileges of being the handsomest woman in those parts, till Alice came, and put her nose out of joint, for which she never forgave her.
And she did love him, and would fain have pleaded his cause, had she not been cowed by the authority that had ruled her all her life. 'Lesbia, if I thought you had been silly enough, degraded enough, to give this young man encouragement, to have justified his audacity of to-day by any act or word of yours, I should despise, I should detest you, said Lady Maulevrier, sternly.
"Those lovely Spanish eyes," said Lady K , "that Titianesque auburn hair!" But it didn't answer. Both the girls were plain, and they have gone back to their native obscurity spinsters still. But this is a real thorough-bred one blood, form, pace, all there. 'Who is she? drawled his friend. 'Lord Maulevrier's sister, Lady Lesbia Haselden.
He is an admirable young man, and sure to make a great figure in the world, as no doubt you know better than I do, for you are in the way of hearing all about him. His courtship of Mary is quite an idyll; and the happy issue of this romantic love-affair has cheered and comforted me more than anything that has happened since Lesbia left me.
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