He must postpone all that for the morrow. On the
morrow of course he would be there.
But his word was before him! That prayer had to be made to his
father, or rather some wonderful effort of eloquence must be made
by which his father might be convinced that this girl was so
infinitely superior to anything of feminine creation that had ever
hitherto been seen or heard of, that all ideas as to birth,
country, rank, or name ought in this instance to count for
nothing. He did believe himself that he had found such a pearl,
that no question of seeing need be taken into consideration. If
the Duke would not see it the fault would be in the Duke's eyes,
or perhaps in his own words,--but certainly not in the pearl.
Then he compared her to poor Lady Mabel, and in doing so did
arrive at something near the truth in his inward delineation of
the two characters. Lady Mabel with all her grace, with all her
beauty, with all her talent, was a creature of efforts, or, as it
might be called, a manufactured article. She strove to be
graceful, to be lovely, to be agreeable and clever.
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