Excerpt from Beauty and the Beast, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel
She could not feign bodily illness which she did not feel, and though she had felt it, she had a vivid perception that Lady Fermor, who was out of humour already, would have scouted any ailment short of the disfiguring eruption of small-pox or the dangerous revelations of delirious fever. She would have dragged Iris in her train to Whitehills a half dead offering to its master, should he condescend to accept it.
Iris could not beg off from the expedition like the Mildmays - Mrs. Mildmay on the score of a severe headache, and Mr. Mildmay because he had business letters to answer, and some other things to attend to, before he left with his wife next day.
"More prying to do," Lady Fermor commented behind his back. "Well, they are no loss, a couple of kill-joys, he with his stupid pomposity, and she with her die-away airs."
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