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Updated: June 12, 2025
Murray-Hartley would not hear of our not joining in; and Octavia handed me a five-pound note and said I was not to lose more than that, so I thought I had better not go on refusing, and we went with the rest into the saloon, where there was a long table laid out with cards and counters.
I kept catching sight of Lord Valmond's face between the flowers he had taken in Mrs. Murray-Hartley and it was alternately so cross and unhappy looking, that he must have had violent indigestion. We went to the ball in omnibuses and broughams, the usual thing; but Octavia took care that I sat between her and Lady Cecilia. Mrs.
He could not have kept it waiting a moment; so I don't believe the story about there being no fire in his room, do you? Mrs. Murray-Hartley did gush at him. Octavia says it is the first time she has been able to get him to her house, as he is ridiculously old-fashioned and particular, and actually in London won't go to places unless he knows the host and hostess personally.
Violins played softly all the time, behind a kind of Niagara Falls at the end of the room, which is magnificent; it is hung with aubusson, almost as good as what they had at Croixmare, which has been there always. After dinner, while we were in the drawing-room alone, a note came for Mrs. Murray-Hartley.
Murray-Hartley had hardly got out of the door, when Lady Doraine said what a beautiful woman she was, and Lady Greswold began "yes and such tact," and Lady Bobby said, "and so charming," and Lady Cecilia who was doing ribbon work on a small frame that sounds like a drum every time you put the needle through looked up and drawled in her voice right up at the top, "Yes, I have noticed very rich people always are."
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