Don't expose yourself, my lord: we are before company. Lady L----, you
have nothing but trumps in your hand.
Let me say a word or two to you, madam, said Lord G---- to her.
I am all obedience, my lord.
She arose. He would have taken her hand: she put it behind her.
Not your hand, madam?
I can't spare it.
He flung from her, and went out of the room.
Lord bless me, said she, returning to the card-table with a gay
unconcern, what strange passionate creatures are these men!
Charlotte, said Lady L----, I wonder at you.
Then I give you joy--
What do you mean, sister?--
We women love wonder, and the wonderful!
Surely, Lady G----, said Lord L----, you are wrong.
I give your lordship joy, too.
On what?
That my sister is always right.
Indeed, madam, were I Lord G----, I should have no patience.
A good hint for you, Lady L----. I hope you will take this for a
warning, and be good.
When I behave as you do, Charlotte--
I understand you, Lady L----, you need not speak out--Every one in their
way.
You would not behave thus, were my brother--
Perhaps not.
Dear Charlotte, you are excessively wrong.
So I think, returned she.
Why then do you not--
Mend, Lady L----? All in good time.
Her woman came in with a message, expressing her lord's desire to see
her.--The deuce is in these men! They will neither be satisfied with us,
nor without us.
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