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Before they sat down there were introductions to Arthur Alce and to Luck and Broadhurst and Stuppeny and the other farm people.
'Here you will be quite to yourselves, said Lady Clonbrony; 'let me establish you comfortably in this, which I call my sanctuary my SNUGGERY Colambre, that little table! Miss Broadhurst, you play chess? Colambre, you'll play with Miss Broadhurst 'I thank your ladyship, said Miss Broadhurst, 'but I know nothing of chess, but the moves. Lady Catharine, you will play, and I will look on.
"I wish I had a friend to plead for me!" said one of the suitors, looking at me. "Have you no friend of your own?" said Miss Broadhurst. "Plenty of friends," said the gentleman. "Plenty! then you must be a very happy man," replied Miss Broadhurst. "Come," said she, laughing, "I will dance with that man who can convince me that he has, near relations excepted, one true friend in the world!
'Yes, to Miss Broadhurst, no doubt, said Miss Nugent, smiling, with a simplicity and openness of countenance which assured Lady Clonbrony that all was safe in that quarter: a suspicion which had darted into her mind was dispelled. 'No doubt. Ay, do you hear that NO DOUBT, Colambre? Grace, you see, has no doubt; nobody has any doubt but yourself, Colambre.
This would involve the engaging of an extra girl for the dairy and chickens, and an extra man to help Broadhurst with the cows, but Joanna was undaunted. She enjoyed a gamble, when it was not merely a question of luck, but also in part a matter of resource and planning and hard driving pace.
Now, that's so impertinent, as if one wasn't the same flesh and blood, and had not as good a right to talk of everything, and hear of everything, as themselves. And Mrs. Broadhurst, too, cabinet-councilling with my lady, and pursing up her city mouth when I come in, and turning off the discourse to snuff, forsooth; as if I was an ignoramus, to think they closeted themselves to talk of snuff.
"But it's the gala I'm thinking of now I hear you are to have the golden Venus, my Lady Clonbrony, won't you?" "Sir!" This freezing monosyllable notwithstanding, Sir Terence pursued his course fluently. "The golden Venus! sure, Miss Nugent, you that are so quick, can't but know I would apostrophize Miss Broadhurst that is but that won't be long so, I hope.
"She spicks short wud me," said old Stuppeny, "and I've töald her as she mun look around fur a new head man. This time I'm going." "She's a scold," said Broadhurst, "and reckon the young chap säaved himself a tedious life by dying." "Reckon her heart's broke," said Mrs. Tolhurst. "Her temper's broke," said Milly Pump.
I'd get her off before you could say Jack Robinson, and thank you too, if she had fifty thousand down, or a thousand a year in land. Would you have a man so d-d nice as to balk when house and land is a-going a-going a-going! because of the encumbrance of a little learning? I never heard that Miss Broadhurst was anything of a learned lady.
The next morning, at breakfast, Lord Clonbrony talked of bringing Sir Terence with him that night to her gala she absolutely grew pale with horror. "Good Heavens! Lady Langdale, Mrs. Dareville, Lady Pococke, Lady Chatterton, Lady D , Lady G , His Grace of V ; what would they think of him! And Miss Broadhurst, to see him going about with my Lord Clonbrony!" It could not be.
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