six
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said Belinda . `` Only the body of my Lord Delacour , '' said her ladyship : `` his bearers have brought it up the wrong staircase . Take it down again , my good friends : let his lordship go his _ own way _ . Do n't look so shocked and amazed , Belinda -- do n't look so _ new _ , child : this funeral of my lord 's intellects is to me a nightly , or , '' added her ladyship , looking at her watch and yawning , `` I believe I should say a _ daily _ ceremony -- six o'clock , I protest ! '' The next morning , as her ladyship and Miss Portman were sitting at the breakfast-table , after a very late breakfast , Lord Delacour entered the room . `` Lord Delacour , sober , my dear , '' -- said her ladyship to Miss Portman , by way of introducing him . Prejudiced by her ladyship , Belinda was inclined to think that Lord Delacour sober would not be more agreeable or more rational than Lord Delacour drunk .