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Updated: June 28, 2025
Suddenly Doctor Masham, who was at the end of the cloister, while Lady Annabel was mounting the staircase, looked round with a pale face, and said in an agitated voice, 'Lord Cadurcis, Lady Annabel wishes to speak to you in the saloon. Cadurcis immediately, but slowly, repaired to the saloon. Lady Annabel was walking up and down in it. She seemed greatly disturbed.
She waited for some time in vain, for when she hastened from the other end of the room to this the scene of action, things had come to such a pass between the ladies Masham and Bearcroft, that mischief, serious mischief, must have ensued, had not Lady Cecilia, at utmost need, summoned to her aid the happy genius of Nonsense the genius of Nonsense, in whose elfin power even Love delights; on whom Reason herself condescends often to smile, even when Logic frowns, and chops him on his block: but cut in twain, the ethereal spirit soon unites again, and lives, and laughs.
Mr. and Lady Annabel Herbert departed after the ceremony to his castle, and Doctor Masham to Marringhurst, a valuable living in another county, to which his pupil had just presented him.
Then there was silence a moment, and then she began to shake, and one hand beat upon the table with its rings. So they waited a while, watching the tremulous, shapeless mass of her, and the tap, tap, tap of her hand beat through the room. Lady Masham took command. "Nay, sir, leave her. You can do no more now. Let her be. I will handle her if I can." She rustled across the room and struck a bell.
Masham, and many which were spiced by being private and new.
Then Mary Anne became audible again, confirming this view: "Is that her room?" For the subject of the conversation had changed in that inaudible phase changed from Mrs. Masham to the queer old soul her young ladyship had pitchforked down in the middle of the household. "That's her room now. Old Mashey has been turned out. She's next door.
Lady Masham then detailed a variety of anecdotes, which related chiefly to Lady Bearcroft's household cares, which never could she with haste despatch; then came stories of her cheap magnificence and extraordinary toilette expedients.
Do, for heaven's sake, try to be like every one else! Lady Masham wishes to know you; come with me." Basil followed, like a victim.
He does not believe, I am sure, in the possibility of resistance. His vanity will tempt him onwards. 'Not to persecution, said Masham. 'Now, my opinion of Cadurcis is, that his egotism, or selfism, or whatever you may style it, will ultimately preserve him from any very fatal, from any irrecoverable excesses. He is of the world, worldly.
All which "gush" I accepted with due gratitude, wondering inwardly whether he had been actually made a partner since I last saw him he was so very gracious. "By the way," said I, when the ceremony was at an end, and feeling a little mischievously inclined, as well as being anxious to vent my feelings on the point "by the way, your particular friend Masham came to our lodging the other evening."
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