"Joy! joy! I giving you large joy! The telegraph this morning say to the city the Thetis have arrive, the crew is save, Arthur was the capitaine."
"But my mother, Count! where is she?"
"Oh! she is at the toilette. She have party in honour of the wedding of Miladi Allerton; and those who will not come before (as the Palmers) come now; and Georgiana, who was the willow that weeping, she is the laurel, the rose, the every thing which will smile. I telling her to go to her mamma and say to her, very gently, you are here; but I am no uneasy at all for her."
"But, dear uncle, you have made us very uneasy; and, as it now appears, without a cause."
"Oh! for the cause you will see for yourself. Come, come; there will be great crowd in few minutes, and you cannot be seen, remembère."
Lady Allerton gave her hand in silence to the Count, and was quickly followed by the rest, who, when they found themselves in the handsome passage Lady Anne termed the entrance-hall, looked anxiously upon each other, as if they had been on their way to prison, so small and cribbed did every thing appear after their residence in the noble mansions of Italy, and the ladies could scarcely believe it was the house they came from, whilst their husbands were amazingly struck by the incongruity of giving an entertainment of any kind in such a
