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At this command, as at the behest of the Homeric Jove himself, half a dozen Irises started up to carry the ruler's message; but again Miss Pew's mighty tones resounded in the echoing class-room. 'I don't want twenty girls to carry one message. Let Miss Rylance go. There was a grim smile on the principal's coarsely-featured countenance as she gave this order.
'Because she never had a visitor yet whom she did not drag into her stables, from archbishops downwards; and I don't suppose she'd draw the line at a queen, answered Bessie, with conviction. 'I am going to drink tea with Miss Wendover, whatever Urania may do, said Dr. Rylance, who felt that the time had come when he must assert himself.
I shall to-day bestow the first prize for modern languages, for music, and for English history and literature, upon a young person of whose moral character I have a very low opinion. 'And pray who is this young lady? asked Dr. Rylance. 'Miss Palliser, the daughter of a half-pay officer residing in the neighbourhood of Dieppe for very good reasons, no doubt.
Be that as it may, the four performers were pounding along at a breathless pace; and if their pianissimo passages failed in delicacy, there was no mistake about their fortissimo. 'What an abominable row! whispered Dr. Rylance. 'Is this what they call music?
'But I don't think Miss Rylance meant so kindly. Her idea sprang from a malevolent heart. She wanted to humiliate me to drag my most sordid characteristics into the light of day to make me more abject than poverty had made me already. That was the motive of her joke. 'Never mind her motive, dear. All I am interested in is your opinion of Brian. I hope he behaved nicely at Mauleverer.
Brian and the Curate walked on ahead with Miss Rylance, who seemed bent upon keeping them both in conversation, and Bessie fell back a little way with Ida. 'You dearest darling, she exclaimed, squeezing her arm rapturously. 'What has happened, Bess? Why such unusual radiance? 'Do you suppose I am not glad of Brian's return? 'I thought you liked the other one best?
She had formed a more correct estimate of life in general, and her father's position in particular, and had acquired a keener sense of proportion than she had learnt at Mauleverer Manor. She had learnt that Dr. Rylance, of Cavendish Square, was not quite such a great man as she had supposed in the ignorant faith of her girlhood.
Wendover was no doubt a great deal too wise to have any serious ideas about such a person as Ida Palliser; but he liked to talk to her, he liked to watch the sensitive colour come and go upon the perfect oval of her cheek, while the dark eye brightened or clouded with every change of feeling; and while he was yielding to these vulgar distractions there was no chance of his falling in love with Urania Rylance.
Go, lovely rose' to Ida 'and make yourself still lovelier in order to captivate Dr. Rylance. The dinner was over. It had passed without a hitch, and the gentlemen were now enjoying their claret and conversation in a comfortable semicircle in front of Miss Wendover's roomy hearth. The conversation was for the most part strictly local, Colonel Wendover and Mr.
Rylance stealing after you. Aunt Betsy is quite right the man would like to marry you but you won't accept him, will you, darling? not even to have your own house in Cavendish Square, a victoria and brougham, and all those blessings we hear so much about from Urania. Remember, you would have her for a stepdaughter into the bargain. 'Be assured, dear Bess, I shall never be Urania's stepmother.
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