Only, don't let me be fingered at.
If once I begin to blush before people, my courage is gone; my singing inside me is choked; and I've a real lark going on in me all day long, rain or sunshine--hush, all about love and amusement.' Chloe smiled, and Duchess Susan said, 'Just like a bird, for I don't know what it is.' She looked for Chloe to say that she did.
At the moment a pair of mounted squires rode up, and the coach stopped, while Beau Beamish gave orders for the church bells to be set ringing, and the band to meet and precede his equipage at the head of the bath avenue: 'in honour of the arrival of her Grace the Duchess of Dewlap.' He delivered these words loudly to his men, and turned an effulgent gaze upon the duchess, so that for a minute she was fascinated and did not consult her hearing; but presently she fell into an uneasiness; the signs increased, she bit her lip, and after breathing short once or twice, 'Was it meaning me, Mr.Beamish ?' she said.
'You, madam, are the person whom we 'delight to honour,' he replied.
'Duchess of what ?' she screwed uneasy features to hear.
'Duchess of Dewlap,' said he.
'It's not my title, sir.' 'It is your title on my territory, madam.' She made her pretty nose and upper lip ugly with a sneer of 'Dew--! And enter that town before all those people as Duchess of...

Oh, no, I won't; I just won't! Call back those men now, please; now, if you please.

Pray, Mr.Beamish! You'll offend me, sir.

I'm not going to be a mock.

You'll offend my duke, sir.