The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 30 Page 14

very fortunate he never married some common sort over there. They say Lady Thryng wants him to marry Lady Geraldine Temple’s daughter. She is a great beauty, and has a pretty fortune in her own right, too. They’ll be rich enough to entertain the king! And they may do it, too, some day.”

Cassandra sat still and cold. She could not stop the girl now. “Lady Laura’s coming out is to be next week, so his lordship must be home soon. They say it will be a very grand affair! And I am to see it all, for mother says she will have a maid, and I may go out there to serve, and I shall see all the decorations and the fine dresses. That will be fine, won’t it, baby?”

She untied the blue beads and dangled them before the baby’s eyes, and he caught at them