Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley
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there were four or five cripples who found that out the night before.
Here is the card." Lord Newhaven glanced at it attentively, and then laughed. "It is four years old," he said; "I must have put you on my mother's list, not knowing you had left London. It is in her writing." "I'm rather late," said Dick, composedly; "but I am here at last. Now, Cack--Newhaven, if that's your noble name--as I am here, trot out a few heiresses, would you? I want to take one or two back with me. I say, ought I to put my gloves on?" "No, no. Clutch them in your great fist as you are doing now." "Thanks. I suppose, old chap, I'm all right? Not had on an evening-coat for four years." Dick's trousers were too short for him, and he had tied his white tie with a waist to it. Lord Newhaven had seen both details before he recognized him. "Quite right," he said, hastily. "Now, who is to be the happy woman?" Dick's hawk eye promenaded over the crowd in the second room, in the door-way of which he was standing. "That one," he said; "the tall girl in the green gown talking to the Bishop." |
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