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Chapter Twenty Seven.
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Plot and Counterplot, ending in a Long Chase.
One day, not long after his arrival at Athenbury, Kenneth Stuart was seated in Colonel Crusty’s drawing-room, awaiting the summons to dinner.
Pretty Bella sat beside him, endeavouring to get up a flirtation2—for Bella was an inveterate3 flirt1. Besides being pretty, she was sprightly4 and full of life—a giddy gay thing, much addicted5 to that dangerous practice of fluttering round improprieties with cheerful recklessness. She was one of those human moths6 whose wings, alas7! are being constantly singed8, sometimes burned off altogether.
Kenneth was not so stern as to object to a little of what the world calls innocent flirtation, but he did not like Bella’s style of procedure; for that charming piece of wickedness made it her aim in life to bring as many lovers to her feet as she could, and keep them there. She never had too many of them, never tired of conquering them. In the language of pugilists, “One down another come on,” was her motto.
She had just floored a captain of dragoons, who was expected that day to dinner, and was now engaged at her fortieth round with Kenneth; but he was too strong for her—at least she began to suspect so, and felt nettled9.
“I never met with such a provoking man as you,” said Bella, pouting10; “you promised to go round by Simpson’s and bring me a bouquet
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