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Held in bondage; or, Granville de Vigne. A tale of the day
Held in bondage or Granville de Vigne A tale of the day Author:Ouida 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: Iowa with her, through the gloaming, some nine miles from where the last fox was killed, looking down on her beauty with bold, tender glances. CHAPTEB IIL ... more »THE ACADEMIC SHADES O OBAIfTA. had bid us send his things over to his house, and make our toilettes there, after the day's sport ; and when we went down into the drawing-room we found the Trefusis sitting on an amber satin couch, queening it over the county men, a few college fellows or professors, and the borough Members. There were Mrs. St. Crois and her two daughters, showy, flighty, hawked-about women, and the G-wyn-Erlens, fresh, nice-looking girls ; and Lady Blanche, recovered from her ill-humour, and ready to shoot down any game worth or not worth the hitting ; and the Countess of Turquoise, who thought very few people knew what fun was, she told me, and instanced the dreary social torture called dining out ; and Mrs. Fitzrubrie, a bishop's wife, staying in the neighbourhood, who considered the practice of giving bans at school feasts sensual, but showed herself no disrelish for champagne and mock turtle. And there was that " detestable old woman," according to Flora, the Lady Fantyre, widow of an Irish peer, — a little, shrivelled, witty, nasty- thinking, and amusing-talking otd lady, with a thm, sharp face, a hooked nose, very keen, bright, cunning, quizzical eyes, a very candid wig, and unmistakable rouge. She chattered away, in a shrill treble, of intimate acquaintance with court celebrities, some of whom certainly she could never have known, for the best of reasons, that they were dead before she was born ; and, having seen a vast deal of life, not all of the nicest, and picked up a good deal of information, she passed current in nine cases out of ten, with her apocryphal stories and well-worn title, which c...« less