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"I don't believe you do either," was Victoria's surprising reply. Mr. Crewe laughed at this pleasantry. "How are you going to prove it?" he demanded. "By comparing what you've done with Freddie Ridley's original plan," said Victoria. Mr. Crewe was nettled. "Ridley has a lot to learn," he retorted. "He had no conception of what was appropriate here."
Faversham!" said Victoria, in a different voice, the colour sparkling on her cheek. "Because you think there will be a public opinion against him that he will be boycotted in this precious county? Make yourself easy, Lady Tatham. A fortune such as he will inherit provides an easy cure for such wounds." Victoria's self-control began to break down.
Inside the vehicle, hunched up in the corner of the seat, was a man who presented an appearance of helplessness which struck them both with a sobering effect. "Is the fellow drunk?" said Mr. Rangely. Victoria's answer was a little cry which startled him, and drew his look to her. She had touched her horse with the whip, and her eyes had widened in real alarm. "It's Hilary Vane!" she exclaimed.
Meader, apologetically, "that was stupid of me wahn't it? But I callated he'd know. She's the daughter of the railrud president the 'one that was askin' about you." There was an instant's pause, and the colour stole into Victoria's cheeks. Then she glanced at Austen and bit her lip-and laughed. Her laughter was contagious.
Various candidates for her hand were proposed among others, two cousins of her own, another Spanish prince, and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, a first cousin of Victoria's and Albert's; for different reasons, however, none of these young men seemed altogether satisfactory.
A few years later, Harriet Martineau's bristling independence did not prevent her from feeling gratified by the persuasion that the young Princess was reading through her tales on political economy, and that Princess Victoria's favourite character was Ella of the far north.
Pomfret, searching Victoria's face, while her own brightened. "He's heir to one of the really good titles, and he has an income of his own. I couldn't put him up here, in this tiny box, because I have Mrs. Fronde. We are going to take him to the convention and if you'd care to go, Victoria ?" Victoria laughed. "It isn't as serious as that," she said.
"Marion!" said Mrs. Armour severely; but Richard came round to her, and, with his fresh, child-like humour, put his arm round her waist and added "Marion, I'd be willing to bet if I were in the habit of betting my shaky old pins here against a lock of your hair that you may present her at any drawing-room ours or Queen Victoria's in two years, if we go at it right; and it would serve Master Frank very well if we turned her out something, after all."
"If you ask me," said Jane in her fascinating whisper, "there's a lot of nonsense about this old Jubilee." "Oh, do you think so?" said Joan. "Yes. Old Victoria's been on the throne long enough, 'Tis time we had somebody else." Joan was very much shocked by this and said so. "I don't think we ought to be governed by old people," said Jane.
Greville also relates a sad Court story connected with the young Princess, and describes a scene which would be too painful for me to reproduce, except that it reveals, in a striking manner, Victoria's tender love for and close sympathy with her mother.
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