The Three Brides by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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laugh to see how delighted people are to be let off the lecture."
And she bent over Lenore with a parting kiss, full of significance of congratulation. She returned, after changing her dress, to find a pretty fairy tableau, contrived by the Bowater sisters, in full progress, and delighting the children and the mothers. Lady Vivian contrived to get a word with her as she returned. "Beautifully managed, Lady Rosamond. I tell Cecil she should enjoy a defeat by such strategy." "It is Mrs. Poynsett's regular Christmas party," said Rosamond, not deigning any other reply. "I congratulate her on her skilful representatives," said Lady Tyrrell. "May I ask if we are to see the hero of the day? No? What! you would say better employed? Poor children, we must let them alone to-night for their illusion, though I am sorry it should be deepened; it will be only the more pain by and by." "I don't see that," said Rosamond, stoutly. "Ah! Lady Rosamond, you are a happy young bride, untaught what is l'impossible." Rosamond could not help thinking that no one understood it better than she, as the eldest of a large family with more rank and far more desires than means; but she disliked Lady Tyrrell far too much for even her open nature to indulge in confidences, and she made a successful effort to escape from her neighbourhood by putting two pale female Fullers into the place of |
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