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Updated: June 1, 2025
It was the pretty woman these young English soldiers had come to do battle with, and hoped to take captive with flying colours and flourish of trumpets. They were in the midst of great laughter when Roxholm entered, and young Tantillion, the ensign, sprang up to meet him in the midst of a gay roar.
I should have seen no reason for airs and graces if I had been among those on the bank when the fine young Marquess we heard of saved the boat-load on the river and gave orders for the reviving of the drowned man in his wet skin. When 'tis spoke of for 'tis a favourite story that little beast Tantillion hides her face behind her fan and cries, 'Oh, Lud! thank Heaven I was not near.
There were many who honestly liked his countrified, talkative good nature, and inviting him to their houses made a favourite of him; and there were others who encouraged him, to hear him tell his stories; and several modish beauties amused themselves by coquetting with him, one of these being my Lady Betty Tantillion, who would tease and ogle him until he was ready to lose his wits in his elderly delight.
Mistress Anne put out her hand and caught at her sister's dress and held a fold of its richness in her trembling hand, though her Grace was not aware of what she did. "How sweet the music sounds," the poor gentlewoman said, nervously. "How sweet it sounds." My Lady Betty Tantillion held up her hand as the Duchess, a moment since, had held the rose. "I have heard that tune before," she cried.
When he returned to London after seeing his parents depart for Italy, he met in his first walk in the city streets his erst fellow-collegian and officer, Lieutenant Thomas Tantillion, in England on leave, who almost hallooed with joy at sight of him, shaking him by the hand as if his arm had been a pump-handle, and then thrusting his own arm through it, and insisting affectionately on dragging him along the street that he might pour forth his renewed protestations of affection and the story of his adventures.
And Gloucestershire and Warwickshire and Worcestershire are all agog with it!" "And they follow her like slaves," added Tantillion, in an ecstacy, "and stand about with their mouths open to stare at her swimming though her minuets with bowing worshippers, and oh! Roxholm nay, I should say Osmonde; but how can a man remember you are Duke instead of Marquis?
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