Holmby House a Tale of Old Northamptonshire volume 1
Holmby House a Tale of Old Northamptonshire volume 1
Whyte-Melville, G. J. (George John), 1821-1878
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My proud Marie jealous like any other woman, after all ; it is too good a joke !' And Henrietta, who was not particular whi/ she laughed, so long as she did laugh, broke out into a peal of hilarity, and clapped her hands like a merry, mis- chievous, light-hearted child. Mary laughed too, a low, silvery, pleasant laugh. Had her mistress been a better judge of human nature she would have detected in that laugh no wounded feelings, no jealous apprehensions, nothing but a proud consciousness of pow...er, an unshaken security in her own dominion, perhaps a touch of pity, perhaps a shadow of regret that she was not more engrossed with her conquest. Yet she had never liked Bosville so well as at that moment. They were pleasant little meetings, those private receptions of the Queen at Merton College. That 232 HOLMBY HOUSE. they conduced in any degree to the stability of the royal party few will be found to assert, but none can deny that they furthered to a considerable extent the consumption of well-cooked dishes and sparkling wines, the expenditure of much compliment and small-talk, not to mention a large amount of flirta- tion and intrigue, political as well as private, and the occasional exchange of vows not sanctioned by the Church.
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