22/23 Things going favourably here, I drive back to town to-morrow, and I hope you will accept a seat in my carriage.' He delivered his courtliest; he was riding on cloud. His honourable surrender of her defeated purse was a subject for gentle humour with her, venturesome compliment with him. The touching of him again would not be required to set him pacing to her steps. His hang of the head testified to the unerring stamp of a likeness Captain Abrane could affix with a stroke: he looked the fiddler over his bow, playing wonderfully to conceal the crack of a string. The merit of being one of her army of admirers was accorded to him. |