[Sandra Belloni by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookSandra Belloni CHAPTER XIX 13/20
"And there we'll sit and you'll sing to me.
I won't dine at home, so they won't susp-a-fancy anything .-- Soh! and you want very much to be with me, my bird? What am I ?" He bent his head. "My lover." He pressed her hand rapturously, half-doubting whether her pronunciation of the word had not a rather too confident twang. Was it not delightful, he asked her, that they should be thus one to the other, and none know of it.
She thought so too, and smiled happily, promising secresy, at his request; for the sake of continuing so felicitous a life. "You, you know, have an appointment with Captain Gambier, and, I with Lady Charlotte Chillingworth," said he.
"How dare you make appointments with a captain of hussars ?" and he bent her knuckles fondlingly. Emilia smiled as before.
He left her with a distinct impression that she did not comprehend that part of her lesson. Wilfrid had just bled his father of a considerable sum of money; having assured him that he was the accepted suitor of Lady Charlotte Chillingworth, besides making himself pleasant in allusion to Mrs. Chump, so far as to cast some imputation on his sisters' judgement for not perceiving the virtues of the widow.
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