'
'Sensible of his condescension,' said Claude. 'By the bye, what
makes the Baron look so mischievous?'
'Mischievous!' said Emily, looking round with a start, 'he is looking
very comical, and so he has been all the evening.'
'What? You thought mischievous was meant in Hannah's sense, when she
complains of Master Reginald being very mischie-vi-ous.'
Ada now succeeded in saying, 'The Carringtons' governess called me
Lady Ada.'
'How could she bring herself to utter so horrid a sound?' said
Claude.
'Ada is more cock-a-hoop than ever now,' said Reginald; 'she does not
think Miss Weston good enough to speak to.'
'But, Claude, she really did, she thought I was Florence's sister,
and she said I was just like her.'
'I wish you would hold your tongue, or go to bed,' said William, 'I
have heard nothing but this nonsense all the way home.'
While William was sending off Ada to bed, and Phyllis was departing
with her, Lily told Claude that the Captain had been most agreeable.
'I feared,' said she, 'that he would be too grand for this party, but
he was particularly entertaining; Rotherwood was quite eclipsed.'
'Rotherwood wants Claude to set him off,' said Mr.
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