van gogh painting

van gogh painting
'Yes, ma'am- but she looks such a tinkler.'
'Cease that chatter, blockhead! and do my bidding.'
Again Sam vanished; and mystery, animation, expectation rose to
full flow once more.
'She's ready now,' said the footman, as he reappeared. 'She
wishes to know who will be her first visitor.'
'I think I had better just look in upon her before any of the
ladies go,' said Colonel Dent.
'Tell her, Sam, a gentleman is coming.'
Sam went and returned.
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'She says, sir, that she'll have no gentlemen; they need not
trouble themselves to come near her; nor,' he added, with difficulty
suppressing a titter, 'any ladies either, except the young and
single.'
'By Jove, she has taste!' exclaimed Henry Lynn.
Miss Ingram rose solemnly: 'I go first,' she said, in a tone
which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a
breach in the van of his men.
'Oh, my best! oh, my dearest! pause- reflect!' was her mama's
cry; but she swept past her in stately silence, passed through the
van gogh painting