[The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield CHAPTER III 19/39
No swearing, no slang or loud talking, but everything deliberate and in the best of form.
Lady Betty telling Morelove to go about his business, and that quickly, but doing so with a stately elegance worthy of the great Mrs.Barry; the suitor bowing low, with his white hand pressed against that "odious proud heart" which is gently breaking at the thought of departing.
What a nice painting it would make for a Watteau fan. Thus nearly all our characters have their entrances, Lady Betty is revealed to us through the medium of the lively dialogue quoted a few pages back, and then there is another stir.
In comes Lord Foppington, otherwise Colley Cibber, in all the vapid glory of fine clothes, and a great periwig.
A very prince of coxcombs, with his soft smile and conscious air of superiority--a mere bag of vanity, whose emptiness is partly hidden by gorgeous raiment, gold embroidery, rings, snuff-box, muff and what-not.
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