with a significant look, how affairs prospered with him here, his answer was a nod of complacency, which wanted no words of explanation.
MISS FRANKLAND.
I have given him as decided a refusal as my knowledge of civil language could provide me with.
LADY SHREWDLY.
My poor simple creature! what dictionary in the world will furnish language sufficiently explicit to make a vain puppy understand that a woman will not have him? I should have understood his foolish smile better; pardon me, dear child.
MISS FRANKLAND.
But it does not signify; he will understand it distinctly enough to-morrow without a dictionary's help, for I am convinced that our little boy is the son of poor Emma.
LADY SHREWDLY.
We shall know that soon, for the German will be here to answer the questions of your uncle in a quarter of an hour. Clermont was indefatigable in finding him out.
