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The Signs Oe England.
advent into the drawing-room ? The very man-servant anticipated the success of the traitor in scaling that fortress . Jones was done for from that moment , and Robinson hid his diminished head . Did I not see wholesale lady-murder written in the corners of your . eye , and in the point of that snowy cravat , which contrasted so gloriously wdth the jet of whiskers which a Paladin or a Peter the Great might have recurred to with complacency , even in the heat of battle , or
when Orlando ' s own awful horn was sounding alarm ? That pink muslin , was assuredly moved on your account . The chaplet of amaranth , with the long ribbons hanging down behind , trembled visibly ; and that young Gloriana , with the sweeping bands and the diamond brooch ( if it was a diamond , and not something resembling it , like your own affected fashion ) , turned her eyes your way , and
evidently" said something very pointed in your favour , though you could not hear it , to the young miss w ho walked with her , who actually blushed as her look caught your conscious one—an ingenuous though silent acknowledgment of your handsome face or patrician air ( which was it ?) . You will be merciful . You will not carry away more than half-a-dozen hearts . There shall be only three pairs of red eyes the next morning on your account , and no more than one refusal of a most eligible offer , wished for by papa , solely
because that sweet female mind has been made rebellious by the remembrance of you . Really the demolition of damsels by this class of young gentlemen is something awful to contemplate . In the intervals of the removal of the dishes at a dinner-table , how altogether extravagant are the takings-up and playings-out of tricks at that grand game of flirtation . You are assured that that newly-married lady who was placed by your side by your host at
dinner , and whom you are inclined amiably to admire , has , several times , in the course of that interesting and beyond all question poetical conversation which you two have maintained— -she with her head bent in her plate , and you whispering in her jewelled ear ;—we say , that you know she has made comparisons in your favour over that crumpled husband of hers , who sits , all red face and fidget ( being a City man ) , and white ( literally in his case ) choker , on the other side of the cloth . But these things must not be . You must teach women
that you are naturally of a high and magnanimous soul , and defiant of your own advantages . Yea , verily , in your embarras de ricliesses , you are not disposed to let off more fireworks in your flirtations , tlian are likely to be perfectly safe so far as the impeccability of your gloves is concerned . Husbands are not all to be trusted in these respects . In . fact , you covet the reputation , though you would not at
all embrace the risks , of Don . Giovanni : —the fifty swords at his breast , on the part of his guests , at his banquet , and . the imperative fotone Man that stamps up the grand staircase uninvited , and will not be said nay to , included . CI . seriousl y speaking , it is impossible to fathom the coldness and heartlessness of your thoroughly vain man . Wo have no belied . ' in the full-blown coxcomb . Wo set him down as all flame upon the
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The Signs Oe England.
advent into the drawing-room ? The very man-servant anticipated the success of the traitor in scaling that fortress . Jones was done for from that moment , and Robinson hid his diminished head . Did I not see wholesale lady-murder written in the corners of your . eye , and in the point of that snowy cravat , which contrasted so gloriously wdth the jet of whiskers which a Paladin or a Peter the Great might have recurred to with complacency , even in the heat of battle , or
when Orlando ' s own awful horn was sounding alarm ? That pink muslin , was assuredly moved on your account . The chaplet of amaranth , with the long ribbons hanging down behind , trembled visibly ; and that young Gloriana , with the sweeping bands and the diamond brooch ( if it was a diamond , and not something resembling it , like your own affected fashion ) , turned her eyes your way , and
evidently" said something very pointed in your favour , though you could not hear it , to the young miss w ho walked with her , who actually blushed as her look caught your conscious one—an ingenuous though silent acknowledgment of your handsome face or patrician air ( which was it ?) . You will be merciful . You will not carry away more than half-a-dozen hearts . There shall be only three pairs of red eyes the next morning on your account , and no more than one refusal of a most eligible offer , wished for by papa , solely
because that sweet female mind has been made rebellious by the remembrance of you . Really the demolition of damsels by this class of young gentlemen is something awful to contemplate . In the intervals of the removal of the dishes at a dinner-table , how altogether extravagant are the takings-up and playings-out of tricks at that grand game of flirtation . You are assured that that newly-married lady who was placed by your side by your host at
dinner , and whom you are inclined amiably to admire , has , several times , in the course of that interesting and beyond all question poetical conversation which you two have maintained— -she with her head bent in her plate , and you whispering in her jewelled ear ;—we say , that you know she has made comparisons in your favour over that crumpled husband of hers , who sits , all red face and fidget ( being a City man ) , and white ( literally in his case ) choker , on the other side of the cloth . But these things must not be . You must teach women
that you are naturally of a high and magnanimous soul , and defiant of your own advantages . Yea , verily , in your embarras de ricliesses , you are not disposed to let off more fireworks in your flirtations , tlian are likely to be perfectly safe so far as the impeccability of your gloves is concerned . Husbands are not all to be trusted in these respects . In . fact , you covet the reputation , though you would not at
all embrace the risks , of Don . Giovanni : —the fifty swords at his breast , on the part of his guests , at his banquet , and . the imperative fotone Man that stamps up the grand staircase uninvited , and will not be said nay to , included . CI . seriousl y speaking , it is impossible to fathom the coldness and heartlessness of your thoroughly vain man . Wo have no belied . ' in the full-blown coxcomb . Wo set him down as all flame upon the