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Updated: June 22, 2025
Every one had his or her turn at saying who should be expelled people who come late to dinner, people who fence with spiked wire, people who talk in theatres, people who say 'like he does, and so forth; and when somebody suggested 'all young women who wear red veils, Lord Rockminster immediately added, 'and all young women who don't wear red veils. Now you needn't deny it."
At the dessert it seemed as if the unlucky dinner would never be over Lady Rockminster said, "This dinner has been exceedingly stupid. I suppose something has happened, and that you want to speak to Laura. I will go and have my nap. I am not sure that I shall have any tea no. Good night, Mr. Warrington. You must come again, and when there is no business to talk about."
He explained all the circumstances of the case Lionel's feverish condition, his fretting about the debt, the necessity for keeping his mind pacified, and so on; and at last Lord Rockminster said, "Very well; you can tell him you have given me the check.
No sooner had he begun to talk to Lord Rockminster than the sound of his voice summoned forth from the inner apartment Lady Adela, who, with many expressions of thanks, bade good-night to the prima-donna, and put herself under charge of the young baritone.
"It is very pleasant to be here," Arthur said; "and we were talking, when you came in, about my friend Foker, whom I met just now; and who, as your ladyship knows, has succeeded to his father's kingdom." "He has a very fine property, he has fifteen thousand a year. He is my cousin. He is a very worthy young man. He must come and see me," said Lady Rockminster, with a look at Laura.
So she would carelessly talk him back into quietude again; and then she would stealthily withdraw from the room, and perhaps go to the piano and begin to play some Neapolitan air but so softly that the notes must have come to him like music in a dream. Lord Rockminster called that afternoon and was shown up-stairs.
The dinner was served when Arthur returned, and Lady Rockminster began to scold him for arriving late. But Laura, looking at her cousin, saw that his face was so pale and scared, that she interrupted her imperious patroness; and asked, with tender alarm, what had happened? Was Arthur ill? Arthur drank a large bumper of sherry.
"Here's letters, lots of letters; Lady Rockminster will be here on Tuesday instead of Monday, and Arthur and the Major come to-day; and Laura is to go to Dr. Portman's, and come to church from there: and what's the matter, my dear? What makes you so pale, Harry?" "Where is Blanche!" asked Harry, in a sickening voice "not down yet?"
She offered herself to dearest Blanche to come and stay at Tunbridge with her, when Lady Rockminster should go on her intended visit to the reigning house of Rockminster; and although the old dowager scolded, and ordered, and commanded, Laura was deaf and disobedient: she must go to Tunbridge, she would go to Tunbridge: she who ordinarily had no will of her own, and complied smilingly with anybody's whim and caprices, showed the most selfish and obstinate determination in this instance.
"An earl's coronet," said Pen, who, no doubt, was pleased himself, "will have a great effect in Lamb Court and Smithfield. Stay Lady Rockminster, will you join us in a little conspiracy?" "How do you mean conspiracy, young man?" "Will you please to be a little ill to-morrow; and when old Mr. Huxter arrives, will you let me call him in?
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