Chapter 24 LORD SCAMPERDALE AT HOME

e fear our fair friends will expect something gay from the above heading-lamps and flambeaux outside, fiddlers, feathers, and flirters in. Nothing of the sort, fair ladies-nothing of the sort. Lord Scamperdale 'at home' simply means that his lordship was not out hunting, that he had got his dirty boots and breeches off, and dry tweeds and tartans o