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Updated: October 7, 2025
But if the thought really does make you wretched, and yet, how can it?" "I have consented," said Flora, gently; "all I ask is, do not speak to me more of the the event than you can avoid." Lady Westborough pressed her hand, sighed, and replied not.
Just as our wanderers had arrived at the farther end of the park, Lady Westborough and her daughter passed them.
Lady Flora raised her eyes for one moment, and encountering the ardent gaze of Clarence, as instantly dropped them. "The time is not yet come," said Linden, "for the fulfilment of this promise; but may I dare I hope, that when it does, I shall not be " "Flora, my love," said Lady Westborough, "let me introduce to you Lord Borodaile."
"My child," said Lady Westborough, "you know that both myself and your father are very desirous to see you married to Lord Ulswater, of high and ancient birth, of great wealth, young, unexceptionable in person and character, and warmly attached to you, it would be impossible even for the sanguine heart of a parent to ask for you a more eligible match.
I had a great deal of business to do with my troop: I have put them into a new manoeuvre. "Where, and wherefore?" asked Lord Westborough, whom a sudden twinge forced into the laconic.
George, a little confused, for no man likes to be acquainted with persons whose pedigree he cannot explain, "I don't know what may be his family: I met him at Talbot's four or five years ago; he was then a mere boy, but he struck me as being very clever, and Talbot since told me that he was a nephew of his own." "Talbot," said Lady Westborough, musingly, "what Talbot?"
Very stiffly and very haughtily did Lord Borodaile draw up, when Clarence approached and addressed Lady Flora; much more stiffly and much more haughtily did he return, though with old-fashioned precision of courtesy, Clarence's bow, when Lady Westborough introduced them to each other.
The marchioness was in her boudoir: Clarence was as usual admitted; for Lady Westborough loved amusement above all things in the world, and Clarence had the art of affording it better than any young man of her acquaintance. On entering, he saw Lady Flora hastily retreating through an opposite door.
He rose abruptly, and stood motionless and aghast; his eyes met those of Lady Westborough, who, pale and agitated, lost for the moment all her habitual self-command. The sound increased: Clarence rushed from the room into the hall; the open door of the apartment revealed to Lady Westborough, as to him, a sight which allowed her no further time for hesitation.
"Cheer up, my dear boy," said Talbot, kindly, "we must never despair. What though Lady Westborough has forbidden you the boudoir, a boudoir is a very different thing from a daughter, and you have no right to suppose that the veto extends to both. But now that we are on this subject, do let me reason with you seriously.
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