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Lady Dunstane's opposingly corresponding stillness provoked Miss Paynham to expatiate, for she had sprightliness and some mental reserves of the common order. Clearly, Lady Dunstane mused while listening amiably, Tony never could have designed this gabbler for the mate of Thomas Redworth!
Miss Paynham primmed her mouth, admitting to herself her inability to repeat such a tale; an act that she deemed not 'quite like a lady. She had previously come to the conclusion that Mrs. Warwick, with all her generous qualities, was deficient in delicate sentiment owing perhaps to her coldness of temperament. Like Dacier also, she failed to comprehend the patronage of Mr.
Diana had often to divert him from a too intent perusal of her features with sparkles and stories current or invented to serve the immediate purpose. Miss Paynham was Mrs. Warwick's guest for a fortnight, and observed them together. She sometimes charitably laid down her pencil and left them, having forgotten this or that.
'That break between the men and the women after dinner was Tony's aversion, and I am glad she has instituted a change, said Lady Dunstane. She heard also from Redworth of the unexampled concert of the guests at Mrs. Warwick's dinner parties. He had met on one occasion the Esquarts, the Pettigrews, Mr. Percy Dacier, and a Miss Paynham. Redworth had not a word to say of the expensive household.
As adventuresses they are treated. Vain to be shrewish with the world! Rather let us turn and scold our nature for irreflectively rushing to the cream and honey! Had she subsisted on her small income in a country cottage, this task of writing would have been holiday. Or better, if, as she preached to Mary Paynham, she had apprenticed herself to some productive craft.
'The stage has advanced in verisimilitude, Henry Wilmers added slyly; and Diana rejoined: 'You recognize a verisimilitude of the mirror when it is in advance of reality. Flatter the sketch, Miss Paynham, for a likeness to be seen. Probably there are still Old Conservatives who would prefer the personation of us by boys. 'I don't know, Westlake affected dubiousness.
I will persevere, though I fear I have undertaken a task too much for me. 'I am deeply indebted to you for the attempt. Redworth bowed to her and set his face to the Abbey-towers, which wore a different aspect in the smoked grey light since his two minutes of colloquy. He had previously noticed that meetings with Miss Paynham produced a similar effect on him, a not so very impressionable man.
Her patronage of Miss Paynham exposed her to attacks where she was deemed vulnerable; Lady Dacier muttered old saws as to the flocking of birds; he did not accurately understand it, thought it indiscreet, at best. But in regard to his experience, he could tell himself that a woman more guileless of luring never drew breath.
Redworth talked of general affairs, without those consolatory efforts, useless between men, which are neither medicine nor good honest water: he judged by personal feelings. In consequence, he left an invalid the sourer for his visit. Next day he received a briefly-worded summons from Mrs. Warwick. Crossing the park on the line to Diana's house, he met Miss Paynham, who grieved to say that Mrs.
'They are invited each for specific reasons. It pleases Lord Dannisburgh to hear that a way has been found to enliven his nephew; and my little dinners are effective, I think. He wakes. Yesterday evening he capped flying jests with Mr. Sullivan Smith. But you speak of Miss. Paynham. Diana lowered her voice on half a dozen syllables, till the half-tones dropped into her steady look.
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