Maids of Honour, a Tale of the Court of George I 1
Maids of Honour, a Tale of the Court of George I 1
Robert Folkestone Williams
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"I vow and protest now/' observed Sophy Howe, her fine full eyes kindling with mischie- vous animation ; "lam for open war against this Philip Dormer. I think he deserves monstrous little mercy at our hands ; and should he fall into them, the least he could expect is to be tossed in a blanket. Indeed, I strongly advise that for the tricks he has played upon us, we play one upon him, which shall bring him into our power ; and then, girls, we would have such rare sport in seeing his worship sprin...ging up into the air, cutting all sorts of indescribable capers, as with a vigorous pull at the four corners of a stout piece of Witney, warranted to bear a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, we sent him up again at every fall." The schoolfellows laughed heartily at the idea ; and possibly under such a leader as the proposer of it, had Mr. Dormer ventured amongst them, he might have been placed in the ludicrous posi- tion, Miss Howe had described. 208 MAIDS OF HONOUR. " I think it very shocking," said Fanny Mea- dows, in a more serious tone, 6€ that such unpar- donable deceptions should be suffered to go unpunished ; it's monstrous !
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