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With a great effort, Lady Niton composed herself. She stretched out a claw and resumed her work, two red spots on her cheeks. "Marry her, if you like," she said, with delusive calm. "I sha'n't ever speak to you again. A scheming minx without a penny! that ought never to have been allowed out of the school-room." Bobbie leaped from his chair. "Is that the way you mean to take it?"
"Oh, you can always ask a man like that to garden-parties!" said a shrill, distant voice. The group round the table turned. The remark was made by old Lady Niton, who sat enthroned in an arm-chair near the fire, sometimes knitting, and sometimes observing her neighbors with a malicious eye. "Anything's good enough, isn't it, for garden-parties?" said Mrs. Fotheringham, with a little sneer.
Ferrier, Miss Mallory. expect you know Lady Niton. Sir James Chide, Miss Mallory. Perhaps that'll do to begin with!" said Mrs. Fotheringham, carelessly, glancing at a further group of people. "Now I'll give you some tea." Diana sat down, very shy, and a little flushed. Mr.
"Yes and last summer Oliver seemed to be well aware of it," said Lady Niton, in her ear. "Was he? He has always been very good friends with Alicia." "He could have done without the waistcoat," said Lady Niton, sharply. "Aren't you rather unkind? She began it last summer, and finished it yesterday. Then, of course, she presented it to him. I don't see why that should expose her to remarks."
"He proposed himself, Oliver says; he's an old friend." "They were at Trinity together. But he doesn't really care much about Oliver. I'm certain he's not coming here for Oliver's beaux yeux, or Lady Lucy's." "What does it matter?" cried Lady Niton, disdainfully. "H'm! you think 'em all a poor lot?"
Bobbie stared at her first fiercely then exploded with laughter, shook off her hand and departed. Lady Niton, evidently much pleased with herself, came back to the window where most of the other ladies stood watching the shooters with their line of beaters crossing the lawn toward the park beyond. "Ah!" she said, "I thought Alicia would see the last of them!"
He looked at Miss Ettie Wilson, and she at him. "May I ask whether, as soon as Ettie and I invited ourselves for the day, you asked Lady Niton to come to tea?" "Not at all. I never play Providence unless I'm told to do so. Only Miss Mallory is coming to tea."
Well, and so she's going to make Oliver back out of it?" At this point the door opened, and Lady Lucy glided in, clad in a frail majesty which would have overawed any one but Elizabeth Niton.
And when Diana proved to be one of those in whom dancing is a natural and shining gift, so that even the gilded youths of the party, who were perhaps inclined to fight shy of Miss Mallory as "a girl who talked clever," even they came crowding about her, like flies about a milk-pail it was Lady Niton who drew Isabel Fotheringham's attention to it loudly and repeatedly.
It was the day after the polling, and Tallyn, with its open windows and empty rooms, had the look of a hive from which the bees have swarmed. According to the butler, only Lady Niton was at home, and the household was eagerly awaiting news of the declaration of the poll at Dunscombe Town Hall. Lady Niton, indeed, was knitting in the drawing-room.
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