Have pressing affairs in England; let your chateau burn
down; or your intendant run away, and pursue him. Partez, mon petit Kiou;
partez, or evil will come of it." Such was the advice which a friend of
Lord Kew gave the young nobleman.
CHAPTER XXXII
Barnes's Courtship
Ethel had made various attempts to become intimate with her future
sister-in-law; had walked, and ridden, and talked with Lady Clara before
Barnes's arrival. She had come away not very much impressed with respect
for Lady Clara's mental powers; indeed, we have said that Miss Ethel was
rather more prone to attack women than to admire them, and was a little
hard upon the fashionable young persons of her acquaintance and sex. In
after life, care and thought subdued her pride, and she learned to look
at society more good-naturedly; but at this time, and for some years
after, she was impatient of commonplace people, and did not choose to
conceal her scorn. Lady Clara was very much afraid of her. Those timid
little thoughts, which would come out, and frisk and gambol with pretty
graceful antics, and advance confidingly at the sound of Jack Belsize's
jolly voice, and nibble crumbs out of his hand, shrank away before Ethel,
severe nymph with the bright eyes, and hid themselves under the thickets
and in the shade.
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