--CHAUCER.
By twelve o'clock on the ensuing day Mr. Belamour, with Eugene and
Jumbo, was set down at a hotel near Whitehall, to secure apartments,
while the Major went on to demand his daughter from Lady Belamour,
taking with him Betty, whom he allowed to be a much better match
for my Lady than he could be. Very little faith in his cousin
Urania remained to him in the abstract, yet even now he could not
be sure that she would not talk him over and hoodwink him in any
actual encounter. Sir Amyas likewise accompanied him, both to
gratify his own anxiety and to secure admission. The young man
still looked pale and worn with restless anxiety; but he had, in
spite of remonstrances, that morning discarded his sling, saying
that he should return to his quarters. Let his Colonel do his worst
the; he had still more liberty than if compelled to return to his
mother's house.
Lady Belamour had, on her second marriage, forsaken her own old
hereditary mansion in the Strand, where Sir Jovian had died, and
which, she said, gave her the vapours. Mr. Wayland, whose wealth
far exceeded her own, had purchased one of the new houses in
Hanover Square, the fashionable quarter and very much admired; but
the Major regretted the gloomy dignity of the separate enclosure
and walled court of Delavie House, whereas the new one, in modern
fashion, had only an area and steps between the front and the
pavement.
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