This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...room. Lady Delucy, as soon as she could speak without laughing, made her most graceful apology for his behavior, and took all blame to herself because she had informed no one of his assurance to her beforehand, that he would do as he had done if requested by any person, except herself, to play. The apology, received ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...room. Lady Delucy, as soon as she could speak without laughing, made her most graceful apology for his behavior, and took all blame to herself because she had informed no one of his assurance to her beforehand, that he would do as he had done if requested by any person, except herself, to play. The apology, received ungracefully enough, at least had the effect of making all persons talk, so that no dulness returned upon the room, not to mention the renewed sparkle of suspicion in many brilliant eyes. The most brilliant eyes of all, however, sparkled with their own light only; those eyes belonged to the rose of all the seasons. She had no time nor patience for suspicion on such a hackneyed subject as the eccentricity of Lady Delucy; but the only passion she possessed even in counterfeit was a more than Athenian mania for whatever happened to be new, --except, and a somewhat wide exception too, in Art, her absolute ignorance of which was in twin proportion to her absolute indifference to it. Tims Scrannel, who always talked to her when he met her, --not going after her, for she always alighted, butterfly-like, at his elbow, --took care to avoid the slightest collision with artistic subjects in his discourses; his tact made such avoidance easy, and his great talVol. 1.--12 ents provided him with topics for every taste. That he admired this Helen Jordan very much was evident; that she liked him to admire her, more so; and silly as she was, there was between them a kind of pact that she would help him in discoveries that he was unusually dull, and she unusually capable, in making. Just as half-wits, persons of incomplete mental development, and uneducated servants, make the most sentient somnambules, so this foolish beauty had a sort of instinct which led her to di
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