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Updated: July 13, 2025
They talked, as it was only natural they should talk, of that household at Fellside, where all things were new to John Hammond. 'You like my sister Lesbia? said Maulevrier. 'Like her! well, yes. The difficulty with most men must be not to worship her. 'Ah, she's not my style. And she's beastly proud. 'A little hauteur gives piquancy to her beauty; I admire a grand woman.
Lesbia found that it was too warm to be on the deck when there were perspiring people, whose breath must be ninety by the thermometer, perpetually coming on board; so she and Lady Kirkbank sat in the saloon, and had the more distinguished guests brought down to them as to a Court; and the shrewder of the guests were quick to divine that no company beyond that of Don Gomez de Montesma was really wanted in that rose-scented saloon.
We sat for a long time talking over the fire, chiefly of Lesbia and Jill, for he took a warm interest in them both; but about eight o'clock he remembered he had an engagement, and went off rather hurriedly, and I went upstairs and unpacked one of my boxes, and arranged my clothes in the chest of drawers and in the big, roomy cupboard.
'I am bound in honour to consider Mr. Smithson, Lesbia, said Lady Kirkbank. 'I wonder that a decently-brought up girl can behave so abominably. 'It would be more abominable to marry a man I detest. I have made up my mind, Lady Kirkbank. We shall be at Havre to-morrow morning, and we shall be married to-morrow shall we not, Gomez? She let her head sink upon his breast, and his arm enfold her.
Mary looked down at the ribbon and lace on her prettiest frock, and thought that it mattered a great deal to her. Yet, if he had stayed, would he have seen her frock or her? With his bodily eyes, perhaps, but not with the eyes of his mind. Those eyes saw only Lesbia. 'No, perhaps it hardly matters, answered Maulevrier, with suppressed anger. 'The man is not worth talking about or thinking about.
She was very voluble in her expression of admiration when I had finished, but I did not seem to recognise 'Nurse Ursula' in the elegantly-dressed woman that I saw reflected in the pier-glass. 'Fine feathers make fine birds, I said to myself. I think we all agreed that Sara looked lovely. Lesbia, who joined us in the drawing-room, contemplated her with tears in her eyes.
'I have been nowhere and seen nothing. I feel like a child who has been shut up in a nursery all its life, and knows of no world beyond four walls. 'Not to travel is not to live, said Don Gomez. 'I am to be in Italy next November, I believe, said Lesbia, not caring to own that this Italian trip was to be her honeymoon. 'Italy! exclaimed the Spaniard, contemptuously.
I did not mean to be cross with Sara, but my thoughts had taken a gloomy turn, and I could not recover my spirits: indeed, as we drove down Bond Street, where Sara had some glittering little toy to purchase, I reiterated my intention of not calling at Hyde Park Mansions. 'I do not want any tea, I said wearily, 'and I would rather go home. Give my love to Lesbia; I will see her another day.
"And I would slay her first," Norbanus said calmly; "but, as Lesbia threatened when I indignantly refused the proposal, Rufinus has but to ask Nero's approval, and before his orders my authority as a father goes for nothing. I see but one way. It has seemed to me for a long time, Beric, that you yourself felt more warmly towards Aemilia than a mere friend.
'Did not you marry for love, grandmother? 'No, Lesbia. Lord Maulevrier and I got on very well together, but ours was no love-match. 'Does nobody in our rank ever marry for love? are all marriages a mere exchange and barter? 'No, there are love-matches now and then, which often turn out badly. But, my darling, I am not asking you to marry for rank or for money.
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