His apparel was sumptuous in the extreme, and such as was only
worn by persons of the highest distinction. He climbed on top of her, pressing her into the couch
cushions, the gown billowing around them like a cotton
candy parachute. "Pish!" exclaimed Hogarth. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. The idea of this sudden reluctance was
elusive; the fact was evident but not the reason for it. Besides, how
am I to ride home without them?"
"Don't distress yourself," returned Jack, "you shall walk. “MY DEAR VERONICA,—Your aunt tells me you have involved yourself in
some arrangement with the Widgett girls about a Fancy Dress Ball in London. He regretted—
more deeply than he could say—the occurrence of this evening. I wish to rise in the world, mademoiselle, and you are going to help
me. ’
‘Oh, is he?’ Gerald said grimly. Hear me then, now,
before I take one step to establish my origin, or secure my rights.
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