Excerpt from The Fortunes of Glencore, Vol. 2
From every carriage-window heads were protruded, wondering at this strange spectacle, and eager inquiries passed on every side for an explanation. The explanation of "sudden illness" was rapidly disseminated but as rapidly contradicted, and the reply given by the porter to all demands quickly repeated from mouth to mouth, "Her ladyship will not receive."
"Can no one explain this mystery?" cried the old Princess Borinsky, as, heavy with fat and diamonds, she hung out of her carriage-window. "Oh, there's Major Scaresby; he is certain to know, if it be anything malicious."
Scaresby was, however, too busy in recounting his news to others to perceive the signals the old Princess held out; and it was only as her chasseur, six feet three of green and gold, bent down to give her Highness's message, that the Major hurried off, in all the importance of a momentary scandal, to the side of her carriage.
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