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Warwick's visitors, and so lively the chatter she directed, that accurate sketching was difficult to an amateurish hand. Whitmonby, Sullivan Smith, Westlake, Henry Wilmers, Arthur Rhodes, and other gentlemen, literary and military, were almost daily visitors when it became known that the tedium of the beautiful sitter required beguiling and there was a certainty of finding her at home. On Mrs.
"Thrice blessed and beloved!" he called to her above, in reference to the noise, "it was merely a diversion of the accompaniment." Now there was loyal service to a sovereign! 'You are certainly an angel! exclaimed Whitmonby. 'I swallow the story, and leave it to digestion to discover the appositeness.
'Or a French journalist an English missionary, said Westlake; and as the instance was recent it was relished. The talk of Premiers offered Whitmonby occasion for a flight to the Court of Vienna and Kaunitz. Wilmers told a droll story of Lord Busby's missing the Embassy there.
'But as I am sure not to live very long, we may as well meet. Her meetings with Percy Dacier were therefore hardly shunned; and his behaviour did not warn her to discountenance them. It would have been cruel to exclude him from her select little dinners of eight. Whitmonby, Westlake, Henry Wilmers and the rest, she perhaps aiding, schooled him in the conversational art.
'Once, on the top of a coach, Whitmonby resumed, 'I heard a comely dame of the period when summers are ceasing threatened by her husband with a divorce, for omitting to put sandwiches in their luncheon-basket. She made him the inscrutable answer: "Ah, poor man! you will go down ignorant to your grave!" We laughed, and to this day I cannot tell you why.
'We have entered Botany Bay, Diana said to Emma; who answered: 'A metaphor is the Deus ex machine, of an argument'; and Whitmonby, to lighten a shadow of heaviness, related allusively an anecdote of the Law Courts.
The happier was unmentioned, and Diana scraped his wound by rallying him. He repeated that he asked only to stand on equal terms with the others; her preference of one was past his tolerance. She told him that since leaving Lady Dunstane she had seen but Whitmonby, Wilmers, and him. He smiled sarcastically, saying he had never had a letter from her, except the formal one of invitation.
Tonans; 'Some other woman, Sir Lukin said, and himself. He reported the cookery as matching the: conversation, and that was princely; the wines not less an extraordinary fact to note of a woman. But to hear Whitmonby and Diana Warwick!
'Totum ut to faciant, Fabulle, nasum, rejoined Whitmonby. 'Lady Isabella was reading the tale of the German princess, who had a sentinel stationed some hundred yards away to whisk off the flies, and she owned to me that her hand instinctively travelled upward. 'Candour is the best concealment, when one has to carry a saddle of absurdity, said Diana.
I wish him entire felicity no step taken to bridge division! The thought of it makes me tigrish. How I wish you had been with me to hear him! It was the most AEolian thing ever caught from a night-breeze by the soul of a poet. 'But do not suppose me having headlong tendencies to the melting mood. Whitmonby to aid him in writing leading articles for the paper he is going to conduct!
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