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ich has received no company this many a day.--Clara and I have lived a wild life of it, each in their own way." "Indeed, Mr. Mowbray," said Lady Binks, "if I might presume to speak--I think you do suffer your sister to ride about a little too much without an attendant. I know Miss Mowbray rides as woman never rode before, but still an accident may happen." "An accident?" replied Mowbray--"Ah, Lady Binks! accidents happen as frequently when ladies _have_ attendants as when they are without them." Lady Binks, who, in her maiden state, had cantered a good deal about these woods under Sir Bingo's escort, coloured, looked spiteful, and was silent. "Besides," said John Mowbray, more lightly, "where is the risk, after all? There are no wolves in our woods to eat up our pretty Red-Riding Hoods; and no lions either--except those of Lady Penelope's train." "Who draw the car of Cybele," said Mr. Chatterly. Lady Penelope luckily did not understand the allusion, which was indeed better intended than imagined. "Apropos!" she said; "what have you done with the great lion of the day? I see Mr. Tyrrel nowhere--Is he finishing an additional bottle with Sir Bingo?" "Mr. Tyrrel, madam," said Mowbray, "has acted successively the lion rampant, and the lion passant: he has been quarrelsome, and he has run away--fled from the ire of your doughty knight, Lady Binks." "I am sure I hope not," said Lady Binks; "my Chevalier's unsuccessful campaigns have been unable to overcome his taste for quarrels--a victory would make a fighting-man of him for life." "That inconvenience might bring its own consolations," said Winterblossom, apart to Mowbray; "quarrellers do not usually live long." "No, no," replied Mowbray, "the lady's despair, which broke out just now, even in her own despite, is quite natural--absolutely legitimate. Sir Bingo will give her no chance that way." Mowbray then made his bow to Lady Penelope, and in answer to her request that he would join the ball or the card-table, observed, that he had no time to lose; that the heads of the old domestics at Shaws-Castle would be by this time absolutely turned, by the apprehensions of what Thursday was to bring forth; and that as Clara would certainly give no directions for the proper arrangements, it was necessary that he should take that trouble himself. "If you ride smartly," said Lady Penelope, "you may save even a temporary alarm, by overtaking Clara, dear creatur
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