"Very well, let the silk alone; I can wind it to-morrow just as well. Would it be breaking the Sabbath for you to tell Thérèse that I wish to speak with her? Pray don't if you feel at all uncomfortable." Celia gave the message to Thérèse, and then locked herself into her own room, and relieved her feelings by another fit of crying. [1a][1b] A Devonshire phrase, as well as an American one, signifying, in the former case, "she belonged to, or lived at," the place. [2] Foxe's "Acts and Monuments," ed. Townsend, 1846, vol. v., p. 550. [3] Abigail Hill was a cousin and dependent of Sarah Duchess of Marlborough, and supplanted her in the Queen's favor. She was a violent Tory. She married Samuel Masham, one of the Queen's pages, created Baron Masham, December 13, 1711. [4] Elizabeth Percy, only child of Josceline Earl of Northumberland, and Elizabeth Wriothesley: born 1665-6; married (1) 1679, Henry Cavendish, Lord Ogle, (2) 1681, Thomas Thynne Esq., (3) 1682, Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset; she died December 1722, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral. The Duchess of Somerset succeeded the Duchess of Marlborough in the office of Mistress of the Robes to Queen Anne. [5] Matt. xxviii. 20. [6] For the meaning of these technical phrases in "the exercise of the fan," see the _Spectator_ of June 27, 1711. V. THE HARRYING OF LAUCHIE. "'Have I received,' he answered, 'at thine hands Favors so sweet they went to mine heart-root, And could I not accept one bitter fruit?'" LEIGH HUNT. "Now, use your eyes, my young anchorite--if it be not wicked to look out of the window: this is the Rue de Rivoli, the finest street in Paris. By the way, you ought not to have been ill in crossing the Channel--so very undignified. Here is my town-house--that with the portico. Till your manners are formed, I shall give you a private closet as well as a bedroom, and an antechamber where you can take lessons in French and dancing.---- Good evening, St. Estèphe! Is Monsieur Philippe here?" "Monsieur Philippe is not at himself, Madame; he ride out with Monsieur Bontems." Lady Ingram knitted her brows, as if the information were not agreeable to her. She alighted, and desired Celia to follow her up-stairs. Through suites of spacious rooms, splendidly furnished, and along wide corridors she led the way to a quiet suite of apartments at one end of the house--an antechamber, a bedroom, and a small but elegant boudoir.