‘Well?’ demanded Miss Froxfield, accepting a glass of lemonade proffered by
a passing lackey. She
was the first to recover herself. “I shan’t eat him. I have recently made your sister’s
acquaintance, and in the course of conversation I understood from her that her
Christian name was Anna. She had been quite convinced that an
engagement with him and at last a marriage had exactly that quality of
compromise which distinguishes the ways of the wise. After all, why need one look down. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. ” Lucy instructed. “You cannot seriously believe,” he said, “that at the present moment I care a
snap of the fingers whether I have any dinner or not. ’
‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering
comment from the captain.
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