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Mountague, and the downcast looks of her pupil, suddenly turned to Dashwood, and in a high angry tone assured him, "that she had never seen nobody have so much assurance;" and she demanded, furiously "how he could ever tink to take such liberties wid her? Only tell me how you could dare to tink of it?"
Mountague, she threw all the blame upon mademoiselle, and she appeared extremely shocked and alarmed at the idea that she had lessened herself by her folly, as she called it, in the esteem of a man of superior sense and taste.
"If you have not opened it," said Mr. Mountague, laying his hand upon the book; "I may hope that you never will but this is the second volume." "May be so," said Lady Augusta; "I suppose, in my hurry, I mistook " "She never had the first, I can promise you," cried mademoiselle. "Never," said Lady Augusta.
I do not wonder that formerly the fact might be doubted, but at present I think there is sufficient reason to induce us to believe it, for Captain Dampier describes the country about Cape St. George and Port Mountague, which are within 9 degrees of the country described by De Quiros.
Surprised at the sight of a gentleman, and a young gentleman, she repented having been so loud in her anger. However, upon the second reconnoitring glance at Mr. Mountague, she felt much in doubt how to behave towards him.
Upon the table, near a neat work-basket, which he knew to be Helen's, lay an open book; it was Gaudentio di Lucca. Mr. Mountague recollected the bud he had given to Lady Augusta, and he began to whistle, but not for want of thought.
Mountague produced the book, and Lady Augusta received it with a deep blush. "Put a good face upon the matter at least," whispered her governess in French. "I can assure you," said her ladyship, "I don't know what's in this book; I never opened it; I got it this morning at the circulating library at Cheltenham: I put it into my pocket in a hurry pray what is it?"
Mountague, when he had collected his thoughts sufficiently to think of Lady Augusta, wrote the following answer to her letter: "Your ladyship may be perfectly at ease with respect to your note. Miss Helen Temple has not read it, nor has she, I am convinced, the slightest suspicion of its contents or its author.
Mademoiselle continually represented to her, that she did not know or exert the whole of her power over Mr. Mountague; and she excited her to caprice and coquetry. The fate of trifling characters is generally decided by trifles: we must beg leave to relate the important history of a turban. Mlle.
No one was ready for breakfast the morning that Mr. Mountague arrived at S Hall, and he spent an hour alone in the breakfast-room. At length the silence was interrupted by a shrill female voice, which, as it approached nearer, he perceived to be the voice of a foreigner half suffocated with ineffectual desire to make her anger intelligible.
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