He weighed the wife by the measure of the sister, perhaps; or his military head had no room for either.
His callousness to the danger of his country's disintegration, from the incessant, becoming overt, attacks of a foreign priesthood might--an indignant great lady's precipitation to prophecy said would--bring chastisement on him.

She said it, and she liked Henrietta, vowing to defeat her forecast as well as she could in a land seeming forsaken by stable principles; its nobles breaking up its national church, going over to Rome, embracing the faith of the impostor Mahomet.
Gossip fed to the starvation bone of Lady Arpington's report, until one late afternoon, memorable for the breeding heat in the van of elemental artillery, newsboys waved damp sheets of fresh print through the streets, and society's guardians were brought to confess, in shame and gladness, that they had been growing sceptical of the active assistance of Providence.

At first the 'Terrible explosion of gunpowder at Croridge' alarmed them lest the timely Power should have done too much.

A day later the general agitation was pacified; Lady Arpington circulated the word 'safe,' and the world knew the disaster had not engulphed Lady Fleetwood's valuable life.

She had the news by word of mouth from the lovely Mrs.Kirby-Levellier, sister-in-law to the countess.