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 A supercilious smile said No.

"Well, that's really odd enough! Did not you see me with Mrs. Maple at that blind harper's concert?"

"Faith, Madam," cried Riley, "when a man has but one pair of eyes, you elderly ladies can't have much chance of getting a look, if a young lass is by. The Demoiselle deserves a full pair to herself."

"Why yes, Sir, that's true enough!" said Mr. Tedman, simpering, "the young lady deserves a pair of eyes to herself! She's well enough to look at, to be sure!"

"If she has your eyes to herself, Sir," said Sir Lyell, contemptuously, "she must be happy indeed!"

"She should have mine, if she would accept them, though I had an hundred!" cried Riley.

Ellis, now, was only restrained from forcing her way up stairs, through the apprehension of exciting fresh sneers, by an offered pursuit of Mr. Tedman.