I haven't lived in courts half my life to
get up a scene for a small matter! Besides, I had an idea from
the first moment I saw Leoline that she must be my sister, or
something of that sort."
"And so you felt no emotion whatever on hearing it?"
"I don't know as I properly understand what you mean by emotion,"
said Herbert, reflectively. "But ye-e-s, I did feel somewhat
pleased - she is so like me, and so uncommonly handsome!"
"Humph! there's a reason! Did she tell you how she discovered it
herself?"
"Let me see -no - I think not - she simply mentioned the fact."
"She did not tell you either, I suppose, that you had more
sisters than herself?"
"More than herself! No. That would be a little too much of a
good thing! One sister is quite enough for any reasonable
mortal."
"But there were two more, my good young friend!"
"Is it possible?" said Hubert, in a tone that betrayed not the
slightest symptom of emotion. "Who are they?"
Sir Norman paused one instant, combating a strong temptation to
seize the phlegmatic page by the collar, and give him such
another shaking as he would not get over for a week to come; but
suddenly recollecting he was Leoline's brother, and by the same
token a marquis or thereabouts, he merely paused to cast a
withering look upon him, and walked on.
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