"Baron Funke has been recommended to the
Dowager Empress by her sister," was all she said, in a dry and mournful tone.
The Dowager for a moment gave him an angry look; but tossed it off with her head and her fan, and pursued the tenor of her way in her former manner.
'Papa Meagles,' returned the Dowager, with an affable smile, but with the bloom on her cheeks standing out a little more vividly than usual as the neighbouring surface became paler,'probably not.'
The Dowager here made a smiling obeisance, rather to the room than to any one in it, and therewith took a final farewell of Papa and Mama Meagles.
Thenceforth the Dowager, with a light and careless humour, often recounted to her particular acquaintance how, after a hard trial, she had found it impossible to know those people who belonged to Henry's wife, and who had made that desperate set to catch him.
'Had I not seen, at a morning concert, the demdest little fascinator in all the world, and while that little fascinator is my wife, may not all the countesses and
dowagers in England be--'
The young lady thus claimed as the dowager's special property, reiterated her question with an explanation.
The two proud dowagers, Lady Lynn and Lady Ingram, confabulate together.
The
Dowager Duchess of Waveney, though she kept open house for members of Parliament, would have drawn the line at monkeys.
'My dear Bantam,' said the
Dowager Lady Snuphanuph coaxingly, 'find us some nice creature to make up this table; there's a good soul.' Mr.
The affable
dowager declared herself delighted with this opportunity of making Mr.
They were gone some time, and Cecil was left with the
dowagers. When they returned he was not as pleasant as he had been.
Dress for dinner with the
Dowager, and admire wonderful period outfits and classic cars at this weekend of retro style.
