Hubert condescending to bedroom slippers! But as I had to have a
dog--and Colonel Warington gave me this one three days ago--and he has
already ruined half maman's things, and no one could manage him but me,
I just had to bring him, and trust to Providence."
"I have been here a good many times," said Ashe, "and I never yet saw a
dog in the sanctuary. Do you know that Pitt once wrote a speech in the
library?"
"Did he? I'm sure it never made such a stir as Ponto did." Kitty's face
suddenly broke into laughter, and she hid it a moment in her hands.
"You brazen it out," said Ashe; "but how are you going to appease Lady
Grosville?"
Kitty ceased to laugh. She drew herself up, and looked seriously,
observantly at her aunt.
"I don't know. But I must do it somehow. I don't want any more worries."
So changed were her tone and aspect that Ashe turned a friendly
examining look upon her.
"Have you been worried?" he said, in a lower voice.
She shrugged her shoulders and made no reply. But presently she
impatiently reclaimed his attention, snatching him from the lady he had
taken in to dinner, with no scruple at all.
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