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CHAPTER XII.
On their return thither, they found the guests they had left in a lamentable state of dullness. Lord Glenarvon was the first subject of enquiry. Is he arrived?—have you seen him?—do you like him?—were repeated on all sides. "Who?—who?" "There can be but one—Lord Glenarvon!" "We all like him quite sufficiently be assured of that," said Sophia, glancing her eye somewhat sarcastically upon Calantha. "He is a very strange personage," said Lady Margaret. "My curiosity to see him had been highly excited: I am now perfectly satisfied. He certainly has a slight resemblance to his mother." "He has the same winning smile," said Gondimar; "but there all comparison ceases." "What says my Calantha?" said Lady
