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It was the old, old story; the growth of mutual respect, honor, and love, becoming daily more tender and true; the love that needed no pledge, because it was so deep and abiding. Lord Upperton was prolonging his stay in America. He visited New York and Philadelphia, and was once more in Boston.
In the banqueting halls were the portraits of ancestors lords, dukes, and earls reaching down to the first Earl Upperton created by William of Normandy, for valor on the field of Hastings. On the maternal side were portraits of beautiful ladies who had been maids of honor and train-bearers at the coronations of Margaret and Elizabeth.
"It is really romantic," responded Miss Milford. "I would not be married to one whom I never had seen," exclaimed Ruth. "A princess, Miss Newville, cannot always do as she would. She may be compelled to marry against her will," said Lord Upperton. "I would not," Ruth replied. "Not if the country required it?" Lord Upperton asked. "No, my lord; and I am glad I am not a princess." "Bravely spoken.
"I do not suppose," she said, "that the landlord ever had heard that a link-boy is a torch-bearer." "I had the pleasure of attending services at your church last Sunday," said Lord Upperton to the rector, when they were seated at the table. "I noticed that you have a substantial stone edifice." "Yes, my lord, and we regard it with what, I trust, is reverential pride.
"You fancy it is so, and possibly here and there you may find a mismated couple, but, daughter, you will see things in a different light when once you get acquainted with Lord Upperton. I believe there is not another girl in Boston who would not jump at such a catch. You may not fancy him this moment, but in a short time you will say there is not another like him in all the world.
Lord Upperton brings you his high station in life, his nobility, his long line of ancestors, a barony, a castle with its ivied walls, a retinue of servants, his armorial bearings inscribed on banners borne by Crusaders. He will offer you rank, wealth, privilege, honor at his majesty's court. Theodore had only himself to offer me. He was not much then, but he is more now.
The opera girls sing to us if they are not too tipsy, and we have gay larks till the wagons begin to rumble around Covent Garden Market, and the greengrocers are displaying their onions and cabbages for the early morning sale." "Who are the Macaroni ladies?" Miss Newville asked. Lord Upperton laughed. "I don't wonder that you inquire.
It was an agreeable announcement which Mr. Newville made to Mrs. Newville, that the ship Robin Hood, sent out by the Admiralty to obtain masts, had arrived, bringing as passengers young Lord Upperton and his traveling companion, Mr. Dapper. His lordship had recently taken his seat with the peers, and was traveling for recreation and adventure in the Colonies.
Lord Upperton was at a loss to know the meaning of the shout of laughter given by the company. "The bumpkin replied if I hadn't any pig-tail, a bit of plug would do just as well for a chaw." Again the laughter. "I expect I must have made a big bull, but, 'pon my soul, I can't make out where the fun comes in."
Lord Upperton roared with laughter, and Miss Newville could but join him in the merriment. "It was a picturesque scene, I assure you, with peddlers, haymakers, shepherdesses, gypsies, chimney-sweeps, and nymphs," his lordship said. "May I ask, my lord, what a masquerade is supposed to represent?" Miss Newville inquired. "Well, really now, I never thought of it.
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