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"Undoubtedly," she assented, "it is best to avoid having your ears boxed." Mr. Erwyn sighed as if in the relinquishment of an empire. Miss Allonby moved to the farther end of the divan. "What was it," she demanded, "that you had to tell me?" "'Tis a matter of some importance " said Mr. Erwyn.
George Erwyn had been for years a major-general, at the very least, in Fashion's army, and was concededly a connoisseur of all the elegancies. Mr.
"And so," Miss Allonby continued, "Mother, believing me in ignorance, has deputed you to inform me of this most transparent secret? How strange is the blindness of lovers! But I suppose," sighed Miss Allonby, "we are all much alike." "We?" said Mr. Erwyn, softly. "I meant " said Miss Allonby, flushing somewhat. "Yes?" said Mr. Erwyn. His voice sank to a pleading cadence.
"Your servant, sir," said the voice of Lady Allonby; "I trust you young people have adjusted matters to your satisfaction?" "Dear madam," cried Miss Allonby, "I am overjoyed!" then kissed her step-mother vigorously and left the room, casting in passage an arch glance at Mr. Erwyn. "O vulgarity!" said Lady Allonby, recovering her somewhat rumpled dignity, "the sweet child is yet unpolished.
But, I suppose, we may regard the matter as settled?" "Yes," said Mr. Erwyn, "I think, dear lady, we may with safety regard the matter as settled." "Dorothy is of an excitable nature," she observed, and seated herself upon the divan; "and you, dear Mr. Erwyn, who know women so thoroughly, will overlook the agitation of an artless girl placed in quite unaccustomed circumstances.
"Well, I have told you their redness is fatal to good resolutions." " after he has astounded me by his seventh avowal. And I shall behave in precisely the same manner the eighth time he recurs to the repugnant subject." "But the ninth time?" said Mr. Erwyn. "He has remarkably expressive eyes," Miss Allonby stated, "and really, Mr.
Erwyn, "so unintentional was I of aspiring to Miss Allonby's affections that all my soul was set upon possessing the heart and person of a lady, in my humble opinion, far more desirable." "I had not dreamed " she commenced. "Behold," said Mr. Erwyn, bitterly, "how rightly is my presumption punished.
Miss Allonby wheeled about. Mr. "It is not the powder that I fear." "What, then?" said she, in sinking to the divan beside the disordered tea-table. "There are two of them," said Mr. Erwyn, "and they are so red " "Nonsense!" cried Miss Allonby, with heightened color. "'Tis best to avoid temptation," said Mr. Erwyn, virtuously.
But at this juncture the outer door reopened and Dorothy tripped into the room, preceding Lady Allonby and Mr. George Erwyn. They had followed in the family coach to dissuade the Marchioness from her contemplated match by force or by argument, as the cat might jump; and so it came about that my dear mistress and I stared at each other across her brother's lifeless body.
"I was but a girl, and 'twas natural that at first I should be mistaken in my fancies," Lady Allonby told him, precisely as she had told Simon Orts: "and at all events, there is nothing less well-bred than a good memory. I would decline to remain in the same room with one were it not that Dorothy has deserted you in this strange fashion. Whither, pray, has she gone?" Mr. Erwyn smiled.
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