"Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to a very pleasing and witty fashionable, the brilliant and exclusive Mrs. Rawdon Crawley,"--he wrote--"the young patrician interposed between me and the lady and whisked my Helen off without a word of apology. 
"Just as I was stepping up to offer my hand to the very pleasing and witty Mrs. Rawdon Crawley," he wrote, "the young man whisked the lady off without a word of apology. 