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'My harpy, she remarked, alluding to her dressmaker,'would ruin you over them, of course. Your maid' the Leyburns possessed a remarkably clever one 'will make them divinely for twopence-halfpenny. Listen. Rose listened; her eye kindled; the maid was summoned; and the invitation accepted in Agnes's neatest hand.
But at last the Mayhews, father and son, set off on foot to walk home over the moonlit mountains; the doctor tucked himself and his daughter into his high gig, and drove off with a sweeping ironical bow to Rose, who had stood on the steps teasing him to the last; and Robert Elsmere offered to escort the Miss Leyburns and their mother home. Mrs.
He had never been able to take Catherine's alarms seriously. An attentive onlooker, however, would have admitted that this time, at any rate, they had their justification. Why Langham was so much in the Leyburns' drawing-room during these winter months, was a question that several people asked himself not least.
'That house where we live has been lived in by Leyburns ever since the Flood! Horrid set they were, I know, because I can't ever make mamma or even Catherine talk about them. But still, when papa retired, he came back and bought the old place from his brother. Such a dreadful, dreadful mistake! cried the child, letting her hands fall over her knee. 'Had he been so happy there?
The omnivorous Lady Charlotte of course had made acquaintance with him in the Leyburns' drawing-room, as she did with everybody who crossed her path, and three days before he had received a card from her for this evening. 'Oh yes! But I have had to miss a rehearsal this afternoon. That concert at Searle House is becoming a great nuisance. 'It will be a brilliant affair, I suppose.
'But, after all, William, say what you will and you always do say the most unpleasant things you can think of it was a great success. I know the Leyburns enjoyed it. And as for Robert, I saw him looking looking at that little minx Rose while she was playing as if he couldn't take his eyes off her. What a picture she made, to be sure!
The result was that a certain brilliant young person was soon sharply conscious of a sudden drop in the pleasures of living. Mr. Flaxman had been the Leyburns' most constant and entertaining visitor. During the whole of May he paid one formal call in Lerwick Gardens, and was then entertained tête-
The Leyburns' grandfather, it appeared, had been a typical north-country peasant honest, with strong passions both of love and hate, thinking nothing of knocking down his wife with the poker, and frugal in all things save drink. Drink, however, was ultimately his ruin, as it was the ruin of most of the Cumberland statesmen.
The omnivorous Lady Charlotte of course had made acquaintance with him, in the Leyburns' drawing-room, as she did with everybody who crossed her path, and three days before he had received a card from her for this evening. 'Oh, yes! But I have had to miss a rehearsal this afternoon. That concert at Searle House is becoming a great nuisance. 'It will be a brilliant affair, I suppose.
Toward the middle of June there was a grand ball given by Lady Fauntleroy at Fauntleroy House, to which the two Miss Leyburns, by Lady Helen's machinations, were invited. It was to be one, of the events of the season, and when the cards arrived 'to have the honor of meeting their Royal Highnesses, etc., etc., Mrs.
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