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"You objected?" he said. "I think, old monster," Lady Allonby replied, "that I would entertain the same objection to seeing any woman thus sacrificed " "Well?" said Mr. Erwyn. " except " "Incomparable Anastasia!" said Mr. Erwyn. Afterward these two sat long in the twilight, talking very little, and with their eyes rarely meeting, although their hands met frequently at quite irrelevant intervals.
"I am the more unfortunate," he said, at last. "Nay, 'twas to Lady Allonby I addressed my appeal." The person he named had been whispering with George Erwyn, but now she turned toward the actor. "Heavens!" said Lady Allonby, "to think I should be able to repay you this soon! La, of course, you are at liberty, Mr.
Eh, let it be! for you have triumphed in this duel, O puissant lady, and I yield the victor a devoted and, it may be, a rather heavy heart; and I shall trouble you no more." "Ah, sir," said Lady Allonby, "you are aware that once " "Indeed," said Mr. Erwyn, "'twas the sand on which I builded.
Erwyn admitted; "and I propose to try marriage as a remedy. I have heard that nothing so takes down a man." "Impertinent!" cried Lady Allonby; "now of whatever can the creature be talking!" "I mean that, as your widowship well knows, marrying puts a man in his proper place. And that the outcome is salutary for proud, puffed-up fellows I would be the last to dispute.
"Beware," Lady Allonby exhorted, "lest she prove a recording angel; a wife who takes too deep an interest in your movements will scarcely suit you." "Oh, I am assured," said Mr. Erwyn, smiling, "that on Saturdays she will allow me the customary half-holiday." Lady Allonby, rebuffed, sought consolation among the conserves. "Yet, as postscript," said Mr.
And thereupon she put all thoughts of Usk quite out of her mind: it had been an unhappy business, but it was over. In the meanwhile her wardrobe needed replenishing now that spring was coming in; the company at the Wells was gay enough; and Lady Allonby had always sedulously avoided anything that was disagreeable. Mr. Erwyn Lady Allonby was far from cataloguing under that head. Mr.
"Heavens!" said Miss Allonby, and absent-mindedly drew aside her skirts; "one would think you about to make a declaration." Mr. Erwyn sat down beside her, "I have been known," said he, "to do such things." The divan was strewn with cushions in the Oriental fashion. Miss Allonby, with some adroitness, slipped one of them between her person and the locality of her neighbor. "Oh!" said Miss Allonby.
Anstruther has recovered her shape and is to be allowed a separate maintenance." "'Tis shocking!" said Lady Allonby. "'Tis incredible," said Mr. Erwyn, "to my mind, at least, that the bonds of matrimony should be slipped thus lightly.
Erwyn, "I do not desire a wife who will take her morning chocolate with me and sup with Heaven knows whom. I have seen, too much of mariage a la mode, and I come to her, if not with the transports of an Amadis, at least with an entire affection and respect." "Then," said Lady Allonby, "you love this woman?" "Very tenderly," said Mr.
Erwyn, who, it was generally conceded, stood high in the girl's favor and was desirous of rounding off his career as a leader of fashion with the approved comoedic denouement of marriage with a young heiress. For these reasons Lady Allonby heard with interest his feeling allusion to the laxity of the age, and through a moment pondered thereon, for it seemed now tolerably apparent that Mr.
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