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He had, he said, been assured by Lord Cantrip that such an arrangement would be quite convenient. It was clear from his letter that he was much in earnest. Of course there was no reason why the dinner should not be eaten. Only the speciality of the invitation to Lord Popplecourt must not be so glaring that he himself should be struck by the strangeness of it. There must be a little party made up.
That fellow Percival is here, and Dolly Longstaff, and Nidderdale, and Popplecourt, and Jack Hindes, and Perry who is in the Coldstreams, and one or two more, and there has been a lot of cards, and I have lost ever so much money. I wouldn't mind it so much but Percival has won it all, a fellow I hate; and now I owe him three thousand four hundred pounds!
When he was gone Isabel Boncassen almost regretted that the "something particular" which he had threatened to say had not been less comic in its nature. Lord Popplecourt When the reader was told that Lord Popplecourt had found Lady Cantrip very agreeable it is to be hoped that the reader was disgusted.
"It is a distinction," said the Duke bitterly. "He did not beat me by so much," continued Popplecourt. "I think Tregear did the best with his rifle. One morning he potted three. Dobbes was disgusted. He hated Tregear." "Isn't it stupid, half-a-dozen men getting together in that way?" asked Lady Cantrip. "Nidderdale is always jolly." "I am glad to hear that," said the mother-in-law.
Papa, you do not want me to marry Lord Popplecourt?" "I would not have you marry any man without loving him." "I never can love anybody else. That is what I wanted you to know, papa." To this he made no reply, nor was there anything else said upon the subject before the carriage drove up to the railway station. "Do not get out, dear," he said, seeing that her eyes had been filled with tears.
Lord Popplecourt would certainly not have given a second thought to Lady Cantrip unless he had been specially flattered. And why should such a man have been flattered by a woman who was in all respects his superior? The reader will understand. It had been settled by the wisdom of the elders that it would be a good thing that Lord Popplecourt should marry Lady Mary Palliser.
"I think a girl may be too clever, you know," said Lord Popplecourt. "Perhaps she may. But I know more who are too foolish. I am so much obliged to you for the photograph." "Don't mention it." "I really did mean that you should send a man down." On that occasion the two young people did not see each other. Lady Mary did not come down, and Lady Cantrip lacked the courage to send for her.
I was at that place at Richmond yesterday." "The devil you were! What were you doing at The Horns?" "Lady Cantrip's grandmother was, I don't quite know what she was, but something to us. I know I've got a picture of her at Popplecourt. Lady Cantrip wanted to ask me something about it, and so I went down. I was so glad to make acquaintance with your sister." "You saw Mary, did you?"
But just when a day was of vital importance, when it was essential that there should be a strong party for a drive, Silverbridge found it absolutely necessary that he should go over to Killancodlem. "She has gone," said Nidderdale. "Who the is she?" asked Silverbridge, almost angrily. "Everybody knows who she is," said Popplecourt.
"Yes; I dare say," said Silverbridge, turning away into the path where he saw Miss Boncassen standing with some other ladies. It certainly did not occur to him that Popplecourt was to be brought forward as a suitor for his sister's hand. "I believe this is the most lovely place in the world," Miss Boncassen said to him. "We are so much the more obliged to you for bringing us here."
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