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How is mamma? The three dances
are over, and I am engaged to you for the next, Pen."
"I have just engaged myself to Miss Amory," said Pen; and Miss Amory
nodded her head, and made her usual little curtsey. "I don't intend to
give him up, dearest Laura," she said.
"Well, then, he'll waltz with me, dear Blanche," said the other. "Won't
you, Pen?"
"I promised to waltz with Miss Amory."
"Provoking!" said Laura, and making a curtsey in her turn she went and
placed herself under the ample wing of Lady Rockminster.
Pen was delighted with his mischief. The two prettiest girls in the room
were quarrelling about him. He flattered himself he had punished Miss
Laura. He leaned in a dandified air, with his elbow over the wall, and
talked to Blanche: he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room--the
heavy dragoons in their tight jackets--the country dandies in their queer
attire--the strange toilettes of the ladies. One seemed to have a bird's
nest in her head; another had six pounds of grapes in her hair, besides
her false pearls.


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