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'Then I shall stay at Oxford till it is over,' said Claude.
'You do not know what a treasure you will be,' said the Marquis,
'ladies like nothing so well as dancing with a fellow twice the
height he should be.'
'Beware of putting me forward,' said Claude, rising, and, as he leant
against the chimney-piece, looking down from his height of six feet
three, with a patronising air upon his cousin, 'I shall be taken for
the hero, and you for my little brother.'
'I wish I was,' said Lord Rotherwood, 'it would be much better fun.
I should escape the speechifying, the worst part of it.'
'Yes,' said Claude, 'for one whose speeches will be scraps of three
words each, strung together with the burthen of the apprentices'
song, Radara tadara, tandore.'
'Radaratade,' said the Marquis, laughing. 'By the bye, if Eleanor
and Frank Hawkesworth manage well, they may be here in time.'
'Because they are so devoted to gaiety?' said Claude. 'You will say
next that William is coming from Canada, on purpose.'
'That tall captain!' said Lord Rotherwood. 'He used to be a very
awful person.'
'Ah! he used to keep the spoilt Marquis in order,' said Claude.
'To say nothing of the spoilt Claude,' returned Lord Rotherwood.
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