28/28 You have your one poetical admirer in him.' 'I am honoured, Russett.' 'Cleared out, I suppose? By the way, you have that boy Cressett here. What are you doing with him ?' Livia spoke of watching over him and guarding him: 'He was at the table beside me, bursting to have a fling; and my friend Mr.Woodseer said, it was "Adonis come to spy the boar":--the picture!' Prompt as bugle to the breath, Livia proposed to bet him fifty pounds that she would keep young Cressett from gambling a single louis. The pretty saying did not touch her. Sir Meeson Corby simulated a petrifaction of his frame at seeing the Countess of Fleetwood actually partly bent with her gracious acknowledgement of the tramp's gawky homage.. |