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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 half-penny. Listen. Rose listened; her eye kindled; the maid was summoned; and the invitation accepted in Agnes's neatest hand.
'The first matrimonial excitement of the family, cried Agnes, as they walked home. 'So far no one can say the Miss Leyburns have been besieged! 'It will be all moonshine, Rose replied, decisively. 'Mr. Elsmere may lose his heart; we may aid and abet him; Catherine will live in the clouds for a few weeks, and come down from them at the end with the air of an angel, to give him his coup de grâce.
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.
Hugh Flaxman departed more puzzled than ever as to the reason for the constant attendance of this uncomfortable anti-social person at the Leyburns' house.
'The first matrimonial excitement of the family, cried Agnes as they walked home. 'So far no one can say the Miss Leyburns have been besieged! 'It will be all moonshine, Rose replied decisively. 'Mr. Elsmere may lose his heart; we may aid and abet him; Catherine will live in the clouds for a few weeks, and come down from them at the end with the air of an angel, to give him his coup de grâce.
He and the Leyburns met, of course; for their list of common friends was now considerable; but Agnes, reporting matters to Catherine, could only say that each of these occasions left Rose more irritable, and more inclined to say biting things as to the foolish ways in which society takes its pleasures. Rose certainly was irritable, and at times, Agnes thought, depressed.
'Unbelief, says the orthodox preacher, 'is sin, and implies it': and while he speaks, the saint in the unbeliever gently smiles down his argument, and suddenly, in the rebel of yesterday men see the rightful heir of to-morrow. Meanwhile the Leyburns were at Burwood again.
Hugh Flaxman departed more puzzled than ever as to the reason for the constant attendance of this uncomfortable anti-social person at the Leyburns' house.
'Well, my dear, have it as you please. It all comes of your determination to have Mrs. Seaton. Why couldn't you just ask the Leyburns and let us enjoy ourselves? With this final shaft he departed to see that Jane, the little maid whom Sarah ordered about, had not, in cleaning the study for the evening's festivities, put his last sermon into the waste-paper basket.
'I want to make a few notes, he said dryly, when it was arranged; 'I should be glad to satisfy myself. When the Miss Leyburns were announced, Rose, though the younger, came in first. She always took the lead by a sort of natural right, and Agnes never dreamt of protesting. To-night the sisters were in white.
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