'
'Now, Lord Silverbridge,' said she, getting up, 'if I had a stick
I'd whip you.'
'It was such fun.'
'And you come here and tell it all to me.'
'Of course I do. It was a deal too good to keep to myself.
"American manners"!' As he said this he almost succeeded in
looking like Lady Clanfiddle.
At that moment Mr Boncassen entered the room, and was immediately
appealed to his by his daughter. 'Father, you must turn Lord
Silverbridge out of the room.'
'Dear me! If I must,--of course I must. But why?'
'He is saying everything horrid he can about Americans.'
After this they settled down for a few minutes to general
conversation, and then Lord Silverbridge again took his leave.
When he was gone Isabel Boncassen almost regretted that the
'something particular' which he had threatened to say had not been
less comic in its nature.
CHAPTER 34
Lord Popplecourt
When the reader was told that Lord Popplecourt had found Lady
Cantrip very agreeable it is to be hoped that the reader was
disgusted. Lord Popplecourt would certainly not have given a
second thought to Lady Cantrip unless he had been specifically
flattered.
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