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Laura Stamford, like other girls, would have preferred to stay at the ball for another hour-to have danced another waltz with Mr. Donald M'Intosh, who indeed made himself most agreeable. But her natural tendencies lay in the direction of sympathetic consideration for others. When, therefore, she remarked the tired look on her mother's face, and, moreover, instantly remembered that they were to be conveyed homeward in the Grandisons' carriage, she at once declared her willingness to depart, telling her despairing partner that "she must really go; Mrs. Grandison and her mother were waiting for her."
"If I persuade Mrs. Grandison to wait for the next waltz, may I say I have your permission? " eagerly inquired Mr. M'Intosh.