The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 375: what you’re looking at

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THE INTENDED HUSBAND 349 tion, cheerfully received the mother and daughter, and at once volunteered to provide the wedding breakfast for the following morning. Sir Rolando Tash remained to dinner, and as he strove to render himself as amiable as possible, he succeeded uncommonly well, the only peculiarity in his manners which struck the ladies’ attention being the little circumstance that he drank his wine out of a tumbler, and of that wine imbibed no small quantity. However, when he _ rose to take his leave, shortly after ten o’clock, he was evi- dently as sober as when he had sat down, thus proving that if he were fond of the bottle, the bottle had no particular enmity to him. On the following morning Penelope became Lady Tash, and while the happy pair were being whirled away in a post- chaise to Bath, Mrs. Arbuthnot sped back to Windsor to resume her duties at the castle and to communicate her daughter’s marriage to the queen. But ere closing this chapter, we must not forget to observe that the faithful Robin, in his brilliant suit of livery, was seated in the rumble of the post-chaise that conveyed his master and mistress to the fashionable watering-place where the honeymoon was to be passed. (C(O) nn) GDoOOo <Sii nin