His Grace — page 255: what you’re looking at

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filS GRACE, 249 elegantly, “ wouldn’t touch you with a pair of tongs; you may make your mind as easy as mine is on that score. Think just what you please about me; I don’t value your good opinion. Am I to understand, then, that you intend to persist in your courtship of Leila St. George ?”’ “TI thought I had told you already that I should do exactly as I felt disposed; I only wondered whether you would be foolish enough to go in for public revela- tions.” “Private revelations will probably suffice,” answered Lady Deverell dryly: ‘“‘but, to use your own words, I shall do exactly as I feel disposed.” ‘““T see,” observed Hurstbourne, ‘‘ Then I think we have pretty well exhausted the subject and may wish you good-bye.” We effected our retreat with more or less of ostensi- ble dignity ; but I could not feel that we had cut a very dignified figure in the above encounter, and the moment that we were once more out in the open air, I endeavy- ored to show my companion how hopeless was the struggle to whick he had committed himself. “Tt is possible,” I said, “that Lady Deverell and Mr. Gascoigne may keep their own counsel, because I don’t suppose that they are either of them particularly anxious to provoke the hilarity of their neighbors ; but you must indeed be sanguine if you expect Miss St. George to accept you after the ‘private revelation ’ which is about to be made to her.” “Who told you that she would get the chance?” asked Hurstbourne tranquilly. “JT was under the impression that you had,” I replied. Eomichoo cS (E(0) m