Almack's Revisited Author:Charles White Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: entertain no sort of apprehension : ? she could not pay her own beauty and my taste so poor a compliment, as to imagine that I could ever think of her and Lady S... more »usan the same day." " No, indeed !" retorted his cousin ; " that's v?y probable, for you appear to have entirely forgotten the one, whilst you have been making love to the other." "Love! Alfred, what nonsense! Why, I should as soon think of following your example of making the textit{cour to Lady Doss- textit{" Come, come ! that is a very poor way of turning the joke." " Joke ! my good fellow ; you may think so, but I never was more serious, and a most capital thing it would be for you." " I should be very sorry, Alfred," answered his companion, " if any one thought so except yourself. Thank God! I have neither said nor done any thing which could be misconstrued into such an intention." " I do not knew that," replied the other ; " remember their Ladyships' eyes and ears are as sharp as their tongues, and when a young man with large prospects neither walks, talks, nor attends to any one else, there is fair ground to suppose he means something;?moreover, your little textit{ingenue of twenty-six is always provided with a double share of acuteness in such matters." "Why/after all, Alfred, what could I do? I had no choice left between being bored to death with Lady Maria's unintelligible learning, and the Lady Bossville's more agreeable impertinence: besides, it was but commonly decent to shew them some attention, after their pressing me to go to the Grange for the textit{battues in November?" " Where you will be the principal game they will aim at." "I trust, Alfred, their eyes will be opened by that time, even if they were so absurd as to think of my venturing to aspire to the mighty honour: text...« less