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"Will you have my arm?" said Silverbridge, who saw Miss Boncassen scudding along, with Dolly Longstaff following as fast as he could. "Oh dear no. I have got to mind my dress. There; I have gone right into a puddle. Oh dear!" So she ran on, and Silverbridge followed close behind her, leaving Dolly Longstaff in the distance.
Longstaff; it's my opinion that a young woman ought not to be pestered." "Pestered!" "You force me to speak in that way. I've given you an answer ever so many times. I will not be made to do it over and over again." "It's that d fellow, Silverbridge," he exclaimed almost angrily. On hearing this Miss Boncassen left the room without speaking another word, and Dolly Longstaff found himself alone.
The gentleman in question was our old friend Dolly Longstaff. Dolly Longstaff and Silverbridge had been intimate as young men are. But they were not friends, nor, as far as Silverbridge knew, had Dolly ever set his foot in that house before. "Well, Dolly," said he, "what's the matter now?" "I suppose you are surprised to see me?" "I didn't think that you were ever up so early."
Miss Boncassen's River-Party. No. 2 Lord Silverbridge made up his mind that as he could not dance with Miss Boncassen he would not dance at all. He was not angry at being rejected, and when he saw her stand up with Dolly Longstaff he felt no jealousy. She had refused to dance with him not because she did not like him, but because she did not wish to show that she liked him.
If I could but get up for just five minutes I shouldn't mind." "Poor child," said Charles Osmond, "this comes very hard on you." "I know I'm grumbling dreadfully, but if you knew how horrid it is to be cut off from everything! And, of course, it happens that another controversy is beginning about that Longstaff report.
To tell the truth, I am standing idle by way of showing my anger against your daughter, who would not dance with me." "I am sure she would have felt herself honoured," said Mr. Boncassen. "Who is the gentleman with her?" asked the mother. "A particular friend of mine Dolly Longstaff." "Dolly!" ejaculated Mrs. Boncassen. "Everybody calls him so. His real name I believe to be Adolphus."
"I don't think I am quite up to that," said Dolly Longstaff, when it was proposed to him to take an oar. "Miss Amazon will do it. She rows so well, and is so strong." Whereupon Miss Amazon, not at all abashed, did take the oar; and as Lord Silverbridge was on the seat behind her with the other oar she probably enjoyed her task. "What a very nice sort of person Lady Cantrip is."
His eye was at once attracted to a paragraph headed: "Mr. Raeburn at Longstaff." The report, sent from the same source as the report in the "Longstaff Mercury," which had so greatly displeased Raeburn that morning, struck Charles Osmond in a most unfavorable light.
If you know of any one you need not tell him to be too sure because he has a good income." "There's Popplecourt. He's his own master, and, fool as he is, he knows how to keep his money." "I don't want a fool. You must do better for me than Lord Popplecourt." "What do you say to Dolly Longstaff?" "He would be just the man, only he never would take the trouble to come out and be married."
"Perhaps after all I am only a 'pert poppet'," she said half an hour afterwards, for Silverbridge had told her of that terrible mistake made by poor Dolly Longstaff. "Brute!" he exclaimed. "Not at all. And when we are settled down in the real Darby-and-Joan way I shall hope to see Mr. Longstaff very often. I daresay he won't call me a pert poppet, and I shall not remind him of the word.
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