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"I agree with you," De Brensault said solemnly. "We will drink that glass of wine together, and we will go and talk to the Princess." They found the Princess where Forrest had left her. She motioned to De Brensault to sit by her side, and Forrest left them. "My dear Count," the Princess said, "to-night has proved to me that it is quite time Jeanne had some one to look after her. Let me ask you.
The winner shall have both. A single cast shall decide, as before." "No," replied Wyvil, "I could not resign Amabel, if I lost. And the luck is all on your side to-night." "As you please," rejoined the knight, sweeping the glittering pile into his pocket. "Drawer, another bottle of burgundy. A health to our mistresses!" he added, quaffing a brimmer.
They're having a lawn party there to-night!" "Are they having anything to eat?" Townsend asked quietly. "Yum, yum m-m-m!" said Pee-wee. "They have everything. Once I went to Minerva's birthday party and I couldn't go to school all next week, that's how much they have to eat there. Get the clothes-sticks. Get the clothes-sticks! Let's pole the island to shore.
We waited in silence to see what they would do, but they seemed undecided. Presently we were joined by Captain Bland. "What is it you want here, my men?" he shouted. "We can receive no visitors to-night. To-morrow morning if you come back we will hear what you have to say."
"We have all been a little engrossed, have we not?" she murmured. "I hope that you are satisfied with the way things have turned out." "Nothing shall induce me to talk politics or empire-saving to-night," he declared, with a smile. "I have other things to say." "Tell me why you asked us all to dine so suddenly," she enquired.
"I thought I should meet you here to-night," he said. "I came here in the hope of meeting you." She was not an experienced woman of the world, skilled in the art of warding off such a speech as this. She had never flirted in her life, and sorely felt the want of that facility which comes from long practice. "Have you seen my husband?" she asked, awkwardly enough, in her distress.
But while we have done our best to satisfy the Yankee, there is one thing we have never been able to do. We can meet his ambition and fill his purse, but we never can satisfy his stomach. When the President stated to-night that Plymouth Rock celebrated this anniversary on the 21st, whilst we here did so on the 22d, he did not state the true reason. It is not as he said, a dispute about dates.
'Are you not withering your roses with sitting up so late, my young ladies? said the Colonel. 'Not a bit, sir, answered Julia; 'your friend Mr. Pleydell threatens to become a pupil of Mr. Sampson's to-morrow, so we must make the most of our conquest to-night. This led to another musical trial of skill, and that to lively conversation.
"Thought you was goin' to have pop-corn to-night all so fast!" he says, doggedly, in the midst of a momentary lull that has fallen on a game of whist. And then the oldest Mills girl, who thinks cards stupid anyhow, says: "That's so, Billy; and we're going to have it, too; and right away, for this game's just ending, and I shan't submit to being bored with another. I say 'pop-corn' with Billy!
Put the thing out of sight! I'm sick and tired of her already. I miss Traverse, Dexie, and if you have had a quarrel, make it up for my sake. He brings a world of sunshine with him when he comes." "We have not quarrelled, papa; that is not the reason he has not been in. But I will tell Gussie to ask him to come in to-night; she will see him at the T. and B. rooms."
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