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Updated: June 7, 2025
"But, Ruth, you cannot always be with us. Your father and I earnestly desire your future welfare and happiness. I am sure he will be surprised and pained to hear that you do not wish to receive the attentions of Lord Upperton." Mr. Newville entered the room. He saw the trouble on the face of his daughter. "What is it?" he asked.
"You flatter me, my lord, but I do not think that fine dressing, the adornment of pearls and diamonds, promenading, dancing, card playing, and masquerading would give me the highest happiness. I think that life has a nobler meaning. I should despise myself if I made them the end and aim of my existence." Lord Upperton could not quite comprehend her.
I have done what I could to make him what he is, and now our daughter has the prospect of wearing laces such as are worn by duchesses; to be received at court; to be spoken of as Her Grace. Now to bed, dear, and be happy in thinking it over." "But I do not love Lord Upperton, nor shall I ever care for him." "Don't talk in that way, Ruth.
"Perhaps we had better give politics the go-by and join the ladies," said his lordship, rising and moving towards the parlor. Pompey brought in the tea-urn, cups and saucers, sugar and cream. "Shall I pass you a cup, Miss Newville?" Lord Upperton asked. "Thank you, my lord, but I do not drink tea." "Ha, ha! Miss Newville, so you have joined the other conspirators to outwit Lord North!"
Lord Upperton, finding pleasure in the society of Miss Newville, asked what recreation the young people in the Colonies enjoyed. She told of the launching of the ship Berinthia Brandon, the pung-ride and dance at the Greyhound Tavern, the quiltings, huskings, and tea-parties. "I hope, Miss Newville, this will not be the last time I shall have the pleasure of seeing you.
She cast a reproachful look upon Ruth. "Oh, if you had only done as I wanted!" A gentle hand wiped the tears from the mother's face. "Mother, dear, the past is gone, never to return. If it were to come again, bringing Lord Upperton, my answer to him would be as it was. We will let that pass. I know your every thought has been for my welfare and happiness.
Newville asked, interrupting the narrative. "Canvasback! What may it be? Really, you have most astonishing things to eat over here," Lord Upperton replied. Mrs. Newville explained that it was a duck, and that it was regarded as a delicacy. "I never ate anything so delicious," said Upperton. Mr. Dapper also praised it. "Was the marriage of our king and queen a love-match?" Miss Chanson inquired.
Again his lordship laughed, but Miss Newville could not see anything in the narrative to cause her to smile. "There is Charley Fox," Lord Upperton continued, "who goes in rather strong. He makes grand speeches in the Commons; but almost always gets fleeced at Almack's.
Dapper was several years the senior of Lord Upperton, so intelligent, agreeable, polite, courteous, and of such humor, that he was ever welcomed in the drawing-room of my lady the Countess of Epsom, the Marquise of Biddeford, and at the tables of my Lady Stamford, and of her grace the Duchess of Alwington.
Her father and mother not only had given their consent for Lord Upperton to make proposal, but they earnestly desired she should become his wife. She could understand the motives that animated them. She was her father's idol, her mother's joy very dear to them. Were they not ever doing what they could for her? Would not her marriage to Lord Upperton contribute to their happiness?
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