If I succeed in arranging something
according to his wishes, I hope that he will not again quit us.'
'I pray you may, sweet! and wish, love, for your sake, that he would
enter the room this moment.'
'This is the most successful meeting, I should think, that ever was
known at Doncaster,' said Miss Dacre. 'We are, at least, indebted to the
Duke of St. James for a very agreeable party, to say nothing of all the
gloves we have won.'
'How do you like the Duke of Burlington?'
'Much. There is a calm courtliness about him which I think very
imposing. He is the only man I ever saw who, without being very young,
was not an unfit companion for youth. And there is no affectation of
juvenility about him. He involuntarily reminds you of youth, as an empty
orchestra does of music.'
'I shall tell him this. He is already your devoted; and I have no
doubt that, inspired at the same time by your universal charms and
our universal hints, I shall soon hail you Duchess of Burlington. Don
Arundel will repent his diplomacy.'
'I thought I was to be another Duchess this morning.'
'You deserve to be a triple one.
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