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Article LONDON PLATITUDES. ← Page 10 of 13 →
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London Platitudes.
that we may then spend together . In ranging round an assembly , the eye alights , as by a happy chance , upon the one that is to be your all — almost your all — during the time of your occupancy there . Threes and fours are rejected at a bound , while nestling in some corner , unseen , or at least inaccessible , to any but yourself , may be that pink of perfection
— that winking little daisy of delight — that shall set you longing and looking for the rest of the evening , and be your lodestar during it . More than my usual luck awaited me on this occasion . In the di-awing-room I had been disturbed — general . I was occupied with my host and hostesshad to praise a childand
, , was compelled into admiration of a worsted dog , worked in incredible Berlin . Spite of these discouragements , and notwithstanding that want of settlement inseparable to a party in the drawing-room waiting for dinner , I had yet contrived to make some favourable observations of a young lady , who with some slight air of consciousness to it , yet seemed mainly
unaware of the presence even of a person whose entrance was announced by the somewhat unusual flourish of the throwing open of the drawing-room door by the host himself . Thai is the one , thought I to myself ; although I placed fetters on my inclination and walked down with the lady of the house herself , instead of craving that honoiu- from her whom I had already elected
as my divinity for the evening . But the dii minores must shuffle these cards for us and put them in our hands , and I waited with a certain self-assiu-ed patience for that lucky minute that should drift this fair galley down my way . Like a stout Algerine , I trumpeted hands to board her , the moment that the current should set in my direction . I was not long kept waiting . " Will you help Miss " I could not catch the name . There was such an
infernal clatter at the moment , that , although I bent all my attention towards them , I could not seize the words . It however sounded like "Hufflingtm . " Judge my indignation when I discovered , some six weeks afterwards , that , as any one might have anticipated of her , instead of such an inelegantly sounding appellation charmer ' s name was WalMngame :
, my —I thought of Arithmetic and Tutors' Assistants directly . "Will you help Miss V was repeated in a soft silvery voice , and when I looked up I saw the lady of the house looking , with her own sweet eyes , full in my face , and by the direction which her glance then took I gathered that
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
London Platitudes.
that we may then spend together . In ranging round an assembly , the eye alights , as by a happy chance , upon the one that is to be your all — almost your all — during the time of your occupancy there . Threes and fours are rejected at a bound , while nestling in some corner , unseen , or at least inaccessible , to any but yourself , may be that pink of perfection
— that winking little daisy of delight — that shall set you longing and looking for the rest of the evening , and be your lodestar during it . More than my usual luck awaited me on this occasion . In the di-awing-room I had been disturbed — general . I was occupied with my host and hostesshad to praise a childand
, , was compelled into admiration of a worsted dog , worked in incredible Berlin . Spite of these discouragements , and notwithstanding that want of settlement inseparable to a party in the drawing-room waiting for dinner , I had yet contrived to make some favourable observations of a young lady , who with some slight air of consciousness to it , yet seemed mainly
unaware of the presence even of a person whose entrance was announced by the somewhat unusual flourish of the throwing open of the drawing-room door by the host himself . Thai is the one , thought I to myself ; although I placed fetters on my inclination and walked down with the lady of the house herself , instead of craving that honoiu- from her whom I had already elected
as my divinity for the evening . But the dii minores must shuffle these cards for us and put them in our hands , and I waited with a certain self-assiu-ed patience for that lucky minute that should drift this fair galley down my way . Like a stout Algerine , I trumpeted hands to board her , the moment that the current should set in my direction . I was not long kept waiting . " Will you help Miss " I could not catch the name . There was such an
infernal clatter at the moment , that , although I bent all my attention towards them , I could not seize the words . It however sounded like "Hufflingtm . " Judge my indignation when I discovered , some six weeks afterwards , that , as any one might have anticipated of her , instead of such an inelegantly sounding appellation charmer ' s name was WalMngame :
, my —I thought of Arithmetic and Tutors' Assistants directly . "Will you help Miss V was repeated in a soft silvery voice , and when I looked up I saw the lady of the house looking , with her own sweet eyes , full in my face , and by the direction which her glance then took I gathered that