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“As you please, my Lady,” returned Mistress Forest, in a tone which the other, did not fail to mark: it was a very respectful tone--a more humble one even than she was ordinarily wont to use--but there was a certain deliberation and set resolve about it too, which expressed as...
“As you please, my Lady,” returned Mistress Forest, in a tone which the other, did not fail to mark: it was a very respectful tone--a more humble one even than she was ordinaril...
2. CHAPTER II. CONFESSION.|THERE is one serious disadvantage--which mistresses should do well to remember--at which waiting-maids are always placed in disputations with their domestic superiors; they can...
3. CHAPTER III. CONTRARY TO THE REGULATIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S POST-OFFICE.|SORELY did the fat coachman, who had no neck, inveigh against that caprice of his mistress which compelled his appearance at the front door upon the ensuing morning at an hour...
4. CHAPTER IV. AN UNCHEERFUL PICNIC.|BY the time Lady Lisgard returned to the Abbey, notwithstanding that the sleek bays had devoured the road with all the haste of which their condition permitted, it was long pas...
5. CHAPTER V. THE FINESSE IN TRUMPS.|IT is the Night before the Derby. The West End is thronged with men. The streets are perceptibly more thronged with well-dressed males than at any other time in the year. The M...
6. CHAPTER VI. MR WITHERS WITHDRAWS HIMSELF.|WHEN Derrick and the captain met at the breakfast-table upon that Derby morning, there was a note for the latter waiting by his plate. It had been brought over from the _Turf H...
7. CHAPTER VII. AT EPSOM.|HAVE you ever seen at the beginning of a Great Law Case a certain hush and stir among the gentlemen of the long robe, and then a young man rise--not much over forty, that is--a...
8. CHAPTER VIII. MISS AYNTON'S THUMB IS TURNED BACK.|I SUPPOSE, Mary, that I shall be sure of getting a letter from Mr Arthur today?” observed my Lady to her maid, as that confidential domestic was proceeding with the duties--whi...
9. CHAPTER IX. THRUST AND COUNTER-THRUST.|I CANNOT, for my own part, at all agree with the depreciatory expressions used by Mistress Forest with respect to Miss Rose Aynton's personal appearance. “What Master Walter co...
10. CHAPTER X. NO LETTERS.|UPON the morning after the interview between Rose and Lady Lisgard, the latter again sent down Mistress Forest for the post-bag, and was once more disappointed at receiving no...
11. CHAPTER XI. MR ARTHUR HALDANE MAKES HIMSELF USEFUL.|SOME writers are very fond of describing interviews between betrothed persons, and there are undoubtedly readers who take a pleasure in reading such delicate details; and yet i...
12. CHAPTER XII. THE LETTER FROM PARIS.|IT is the morning after the Derby Day, and Sir Richard, who has never had a shilling upon that national event, yet reads with interest the prose-poem upon the subject in the _T...