Weimar's trust - 1873 Author:Edward Christian 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: CHAPTER III. " My dear Doctor," said he, to Goldsmith, " what harm does it do a man to call him Holofernes ?" " Pooh, ma'am," he exclaimed to Mrs. Carter, ... more »" who is the worse for being talked of uncharitably ? " Dr. Johnson and his Times. Macaulat. ." Well, Constance, how did you enjoy your "ball last night ?" asked Eugenie, as she entered, at mid-day, the bed-chamber of that young lady, who was not yet up. " Dear cousin, it would have been charming T)ut for that perverse papa of mine, who would not let me dance with the beaux I preferred, but mounted guard over me like a horrid sentinel. There was one ' duck of a young man,' whom papa glared at with Oorgon grimness, hoping to turn him into stone; but never saw I mortal man so impervious to black looks! Not a whit abashed was he! He treated papa with as much reverence as if he had been an old figure-head instead of the Great Mogul he is. That tiresome old thing, Lady Greystone, (looking like a hearse in her pall-like black velvet dress and her nodding plumes, with her dismal husband as attendant mute,) introduced my hero for a deux-temps. Papa immediately said I was engaged. He thought he was putting his veto on the matter by telling this fib; for you know he never allows me to dance with any but grandees, and he had already denied me to about a dozen, waiting for some grander offer. However, I out-manoeuvred him, for I simpered up, as innocent as a lamb, in his face, and said, with the prettiest bleat you ever heard,—'No, dear papa, you are mistaken; I am not engaged for this dance!' My cavalier immediately proffered his arm, and away I tripped, looking so mincingly unconscious ! Jenny, I do believe at that moment papa could have whipped me!" "It is not too late now, Con," said her friend, laughing; "take c...« less