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Godfrey whispered to his mother and Miss Hauton was carried into the open air. Lady Oldborough and her smelling-bottle followed. Godfrey, leaving the young lady with them, returned quickly to the supper-room, to prevent any one from intruding upon her. He met Buckhurst Falconer and Colonel Hauton at the door, and stopped them with assurances that Miss Hauton had all the assistance she could want.
The workmen made her a smelling-bottle and me several pipes and a walking-stick of glass, for us to see the process. From Shields we proceeded to Leith, and landed, and all our baggage being examined at the customs-house, I thought what a capital thing it was that I had sold my dress.
He detested being compelled to hand the smelling-bottle to her, and he would have avoided doing so if her pallor did not always alarm him. Nothing but this pallor convinced him that the attacks were not a deep ruse to impress him. His attitude invariably implied that she could cure the malady if she chose, but that through obstinacy she did not choose.
The man who had done it knelt on the other side, rubbing one of the hands. Kildare and Westonhaugh galloped off at full speed, and presently returned bearing a brandy-flask and a smelling-bottle, and followed by a groom with some water in a native lota. I wanted to make him swallow some of the liquor, but Miss Westonhaugh took the flask from my hands. "He would not like it.
Her husband gave her a smelling-bottle, and she slowly recommenced her toilette. "Would it not," he said, "be as well to try and soften her a bit, and remind her of her duty to her parents?" "You might finish up with that, but I don't believe she'd care; and what are we to do if she owns it all and sticks out? That's what I want to know." Mr. Furze was silent.
Capper, and gave her a brief explanation of Milly's swoon. "The lady's a little overcome," he said. "Mr. Beadon has got to go abroad, and couldn't find time to see her before he went." "Hard-heated brute!" said the landlady, as she chafed Milly's hands, and held a smelling-bottle to her nose. "Oh, dear, no!" said Mr. Johnson, briskly. "Family ties must not stand in the way of business.
I fear you think me very effeminate." She replied in a caressing voice: "I take you for a most worthy man who has terrible nerves; but you know by experience that if you have weaknesses I have salts. Will you have my smelling-bottle?" "You are a thousand times too good," he rejoined, and bravely marched forward to face the danger.
At this moment Lady Assheton and Mrs. Nutter, with some of the other ladies, came up. "Just in time, Nell," cried the knight. "Have you your smelling-bottle about you? The May Queen has fainted." "Indeed!" exclaimed Lady Assheton, springing towards Alizon, who was now sustained by young Richard Assheton; the forester having surrendered her to him.
"I'm afraid there has been an accident, my lady," he said, as apologetically, as if he were responsible for the accident. "Oh! Nothing horrible, I hope!" said Lady Caroline, drawing out her smelling-bottle. "It's a carriage accident, my lady. Leastways, a cab. The 'orse is lying right across the road, my lady." "Speak to the people, Steel," said her ladyship, with great dignity.
However, we have now quarrelled, and I dare say that she would not mind my parting with it. I'm sure that I should not care if she was to give away my keepsake, the smelling-bottle, or the ring which I gave her. Then what does it signify? Besides, is it not my own? and have I not a right to do what I please with it?"
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