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Название: Laid up in Lavender

Автор: Stanley John Weyman

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       Stanley John Weyman

      Laid up in Lavender

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066205799

       LADY BETTY'S INDISCRETION

       THE SURGEON'S GUEST

       THE SURGEON'S GUEST

       CHAPTER I.

       CHAPTER II

       CHAPTER III

       CHAPTER IV

       THE COLONEL'S BOY

       THE COLONEL'S BOY

       A GOOD MAN'S DILEMMA

       A GOOD MAN'S DILEMMA

       BAB

       BAB

       CHAPTER I

       CHAPTER II

       GERALD

       GERALD

       JOANNA'S BRACELET

       JOANNA'S BRACELET

       THE BODY-BIRDS OF COURT

       THE BODY-BIRDS OF COURT

       THE VICAR'S SECRET

       THE VICAR'S SECRET

       THE OTHER ENGLISHMAN

       THE OTHER ENGLISHMAN

       KING PEPIN AND SWEET CLIVE.

       KING PEPIN AND SWEET CLIVE.

       FAMILY PORTRAITS.

       FAMILY PORTRAITS.

       THE END

       Table of Contents

      "Horry! I am sick to death of it!"

      There was a servant in the room collecting the tea-cups; but Lady Betty Stafford, having been reared in the purple, was not to be deterred from speaking her mind by a servant. Her cousin was either more prudent or less vivacious. He did not answer on the instant, but stood gazing through one of the windows at the leafless trees and slow-dropping rain in the Mall. He only turned when Lady Betty pettishly repeated her statement.

      "Had a bad time?" he vouchsafed, dropping into a chair near her, and looking first at her, in a good-natured way, and then at his boots, which he seemed to approve.

      "Horrid!" she replied.

      "Many people here?"

      "Hordes of them! Whole tribes!" she exclaimed. She was a little woman, plump and pretty, with a pale, clear complexion, and bright eyes. "I am bored beyond belief. And--and I have not seen Stafford since morning," she added.

      "Cabinet council?"

      "Yes!" she answered viciously. "A cabinet council, and a privy council, and a board of trade, and a board of green cloth, and all the other boards! Horry, I am sick to death of it! What is the use of it all?"

      "Don't do it," he said oracularly, still admiring his boots. "Country go to the dogs!"

      "Let it!" she retorted, not relenting a whit. "I wish it would. I wish the dogs joy of it!"

      He made an extraordinary effort at diffuseness. "I thought," he said, "that you were becoming political, Betty. Going to write something, and all that."

      "Rubbish! But here is Mr. Atlay. Mr. Atlay, will you have a cup of tea?" she continued, addressing the new-comer. "There will be some here presently. Where is Mr. Stafford?"

      "Mr. Stafford will take a cup of tea in the library, Lady Betty," the secretary replied. "He asked, me to bring it to him. He is copying an important paper."

      Sir Horace forsook his boots, and in a fit of momentary interest asked, "They have come to terms?"

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