sat
looking on dismally. Stupid little thing!--as if _that_ would do her any
good! A few days ago Lord Hampshire arrived off here in his yacht. He
was present at the _salterello_, and as I saw him out in the gardens
afterwards with the neglected one, sitting beside her in the moonlight,
I presume he was offering her sympathy and consolation. He is a heavy
young fellow, but exceedingly good-humored and kind-hearted. _He_ would
have been in heaven in the wet June at Coombe-Bysset; but she refused
him, silly little thing! I am quite angry with her: she has had her own
way, and she won't make the best of that. I met her and her rejected
admirer riding together this morning towards Villerville, while the
beautiful prince was splashing about in the water with his Venetian
friend. I see a great many eventual complications ahead. Well, they will
all be the fault of that Rainy June!

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