"
"Peter has just asked me for this waltz," said Leonore. "Oh, Mr.
Rutgers, I'm so sorry, I'm going to dance this with Mr. Stirling."
And then Peter felt he was to be congratulated.
"I shan't marry him myself," thought Leonore, "but I won't have my
friends married off right under my nose, and you can try all you want,
Mrs. Rivington."
So Peter's guardianship was apparently bearing fruit. Yet man to this
day holds woman to be the weaker vessel!
CHAPTER LIV.
OBSTINACY.
The next morning Peter found that his prayer for a rainy day had been
answered, and came down to breakfast in the pleasantest of humors.
"See how joyful his future Excellency looks already," said Watts,
promptly recalling Peter to the serious part of life. And fortunately
too, for from that moment, the time which he had hoped to have alone (if
_two_ ever can be alone), began to be pilfered from him. Hardly were
they seated at breakfast when Pell dropped in to congratulate him, and
from that moment, despite the rain, every friend in Newport seemed to
feel it a bounden duty to do the same, and to stay the longer because of
the rain.
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