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He was rewarded with three rounds of cheers; and was ironically invited to mount the platform and take the chair. Under these embarrassing circumstances, Mirabel rose to speak. He secured silence, at the outset, by a humorous allusion to the prolix speaker who had preceded him. "Look at the clock, gentlemen," he said; "and limit my speech to an interval of ten minutes."
This strange proceeding startled Emily. "What man do you mean?" she asked. Mr. Rook took no notice of the question. Still looking at Mirabel, he pointed down the stairs once more. With vacant eyes moving mechanically, like a sleep-walker in his dream Mirabel silently obeyed. Mr. Rook turned to Emily. "Are you easily frightened?" he said "I don't understand you," Emily replied.
She has removed from the address at which my brother saw her last. He has made every possible inquiry without result." As she replied in those discouraging terms, the curtains which divided Mrs. Delvin's bedroom from her sitting-room were drawn aside. An elderly woman-servant approached her mistress's couch. "Mr. Mirabel is awake, ma'am. He is very low; I can hardly feel his pulse.
Why not to you?" "My dear Miss de Sor !" "Is there anything wrong, Mr. Mirabel, in wishing that I could make you a prosperous man?" "You must not even talk of such a thing!" "How proud you are!" she said submissively. "Oh, I can't bear to think of you in that miserable village a position so unworthy of your talents and your claims! And you tell me I must not talk about it.
Lady Mirabel looked at me solemnly out of her fine eyes, and said, 'O indeed, as if she understood me, and then she asked me whether I went to the duchess's Thursdays; and when I said no, hoped she should see me there, and that I must try and get there, every body went there every body who was in society: and then we talked of the new embassador from Timbuctoo, and how he was better than the old one; and how Lady Mary Billington was going to marry a clergyman quite below her in rank; and how Lord and Lady Ringdove had fallen out three months after their marriage about Tom Pouter of the Blues, Lady Ringdove's cousin, and so forth.
We soon got up a little flirtation; but the other night when I played Mirabel to her, it finished the affair. She was quite nervous, and could scarcely go through with her part. I saw it, and upon my soul I am sorry for it; she's a prodigiously fine girl such lips and such teeth!
'You see very far, and very quickly, Count Mirabel, said Ferdinand, with a little reserve. 'Yes; in a minute, said the Count, 'in a minute I read a person's character. I know you are very much in love, because you changed countenance yesterday when we were talking of women. Ferdinand changed countenance again. 'You are a very extraordinary man, Count, he at length observed.
Waiting until Francine and Miss Plym are out of hearing, she bends over Emily, and says, "My dear, I really do think Francine is in love with Mr. Mirabel." "After having only been a week in the same house with him!" Emily exclaims. "At any rate," said Cecilia, more smartly than usual, "she is jealous of you." The next morning, Mr. Mirabel took two members of the circle at Monksmoor by surprise.
Mirabel is a master in the art of putting the right words in the right places; and simple Cecilia distrusts herself and her grammar. At that moment of embarrassment, a friend leaves the dance, and helps Cecilia out of the difficulty. Emily approaches the sofa-throne, breathless followed by her partner, entreating her to give him "one turn more." She is not to be tempted; she means to rest.
"'Of all melancholy Sundays, she continued, the most melancholy in the calendar. Mr. Miles Mirabel preached his farewell sermon, in our temporary chapel upstairs. "'And you have not recovered it yet? "'We are all heart-broken, Miss Wyvil. "This naturally interested me. I asked what sort of sermons Mr. Mirabel preached. Lady Janeaway said: 'Come up to our room after dinner.
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