"Poor darling Cupid! are you
almost starved to death? Harry, do give him that muffin on your
plate."
"You are very late to-day, my love," cried the mortified
husband.
"I have been pestered for the last hour with Duval and the court
dresses, and I could not fix on what I should like."
"I think you might have deferred the ceremony of choosing to another
opportunity. General Cameron has been here above an hour."
"Dear! I hope you did not wait for me. I shall be quite shocked!"
drawled out her ladyship in a tone denoting how very indifferent the
answer would be to her.
"I beg your ladyship would be under no uneasiness on that account,"
replied the General in an ironical tone, which, though lost upon her,
was obvious enough to Henry.
"Have you breakfasted?" asked Lady Juliana, exerting herself to be
polite.
"Absurd, my love!" cried her husband. "Do you suppose I should have
allowed the General to wait for that too all this time, if he had not
breakfasted many hours ago?"
"How cross you are this morning, my Harry! I protest my Cupidon is quite
ashamed of your _grossierete! "_
A servant now entered to say Mr. Shagg was come to know her ladyship's
final decision about the hammer-cloths; and the new footman was come to
be engaged; and the china merchant was below.
"Send up one of them at a time; and as to the footman, you may say I'll
have him at once," said Lady Juliana.
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