Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3)

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ing for the carriage, the tedium of which Lord Hemsworth had exerted himself to relie

the usual quantity. Sometimes it is rather m

was silent fo

a mistake, Di,"

, gr

h. You make yourself cheap to hi

not a

ay, "I should have been proud to have

i, quietly, "if I did

like him

an to act on th

know what

arm's length, which talking nonsense does, his feeling towards me, which only amuses him now, will become serious too. Lord Hemsworth is not so superficial as he seems. He would have been

ith you now, and has been

ay; but he would be much wors

n the stairs, if it is not encouragement? You may be certain there w

, as long as I don't do the thing.

it, if you

he has the right kind of collars. I like him.' 'Di,' I say to myself very solemnly-you have no idea how solemn I am on these occasions-'are you willing to prefer him to the rest of the whole universe, to listen to his conversation for the remainder of your natural life, to knock under to him entirely; in short, to take him and his collars for better for worse?' 'No, of course not,' I say indignantly; 'I should not think of such a thing!' 'Then,' I reply, 'you have no earthly right to let him think you might be persuaded to; or to allow him to take a single one of the preliminary steps in that direction,

ade a simultaneous upheaval under her voluminous wraps. Her hopes for Lord Hemswor

, "I think that takes the palm. How do you suppose any woman in the whole world, or

to the end, just as one does in a novel to see whether it is worth reading. I can't pretend to myself when I walk in the

olving an entirely new idea in her mind, which cast Lord Hemsworth completely into the shade. "If you are so

en an old maid and a married woman," said Di.

ed by her new idea, gave her silen

, granny? He is so black that talk

ustained a sligh

ng a slight yawn. "I am glad to see him back in England.

i. "Ugly men sometimes do

w ugly a man is if he

ose whenever I look at it. I wish the present head of the family had kept a firmer hold on that feature, that is all; and, it being a hook, I should have thought he might easily have done so. I think it is a want of good taste to bring the Fane features so p

for two generations," remarked Mrs. Courtenay, clo

ing Mrs. Courtenay and Di into their ca

id. "I thought you

d not think it necessary to say that he

Lord Hemsworth, and t

had that sort of quiet liking for each other which has the germ of f

of many, passed them at a foot's pace, wit

g at a bay mare at Tattersall's to-day for my team. I wish you would come and see her, Tempe

John, with interest; "but it rathe

ys with black points. She is right height, good action, not too high, and has been driven as a

glishmen have in common, they proceeded slowly

a time, "do you know it strikes me ver

ely," sa

at is the same hansom waiting at the corner that hailed us as

bout five hundred and one cab hors

see him just as much as I know a face. I bet

t is," said J

g more. They walked up St.

stopping at the corner of King Street. "I will come r

treet. There were a few hansoms on the stand. The last, which was in th

will see whether it is Tempest or me he i

ch so that his face was plainly visible. Then he proceeded leisurely on his way and turned d

a somewhat dark archway, an

and carriages which passed; "nothing more to be seen of our f