Both were
tastefully dressed, while about Eugenia there was an air of
languor befitting the _severe headache,_ of which Mrs. Hastings
was surprised to hear.
"Then _that girl_ didn't tell you as I bade her to do," said
Eugenia; adding, that "Mrs. Hastings must have thought her very
rude to keep her so long waiting."
But Mrs. Hastings was too good-natured to think anything, and,
after a few commonplace remarks, she told the object of her call,
saying, that "the fresh air would, undoubtedly, do Eugenia good."
In this opinion the young lady fully concurred, and, half an hour
later, she was slowly riding through the principal streets of
Dunwood, wondering if her acquaintances did not envy her for being
on such terms of intimacy with the fashionable Mrs. Hastings. Very
politely were the young ladies received by Mr. Hastings, on their
arrival at Rose Hill, and throughout the entire day their
admiration, both for the place and its owner, increased, though
Eugenia could not conceal from herself the fact, that she stood
very much in fear of the latter, whose keen black eyes seemed to
read her very thoughts.
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