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'My aunt! cried Louis, with eager delight 'and my cousin! he added, turning with a slight blush towards the maiden, whom he felt, rather than saw, to be the worthy object of yesterday's rapture. 'Not quite, she answered, not avoiding the grasp of his hand, but returning it with calm, distant politeness. 'Not quite, repeated Lady Conway. 'Your real cousins are no farther off than Beauchastel
'She held up her stately head, and thought it would be a better return for Mr. Mansell's kindness to tell him herself before leaving Beauchastel; but Lady Conway entreated her not to be hasty, and protested that her fears were of Mr.
Delaford had carried him out in his arms. 'Well! said Louis, coolly, without altering a muscle of his face, as the Captain looked for an angry negative. 'And when they got home, so the story went, Mr. Frost, the tutor, was so mad with jealousy and rage, that my Lady declared those moorings would not suit her no longer, but had let go, and laid her head right for Beauchastel.
'And it is so delightful to have a holiday given, now and then, instead of having a life all holiday. Ah! there's a glow-worm look at the wonder of that green lamp! 'I must show it to Kitty, said James, taking it up on a cushion of moss. 'Her acquaintance will begin earlier than mine. Do you remember showing me my first glow-worm at Beauchastel?
Another declared that Miss Conway would not have him at any price, and was set upon the poor tutor, and that he was lying dangerously ill of a low fever. The women will have it so, observed the Captain, 'the story's everywhere, except maybe in the parlour at Beauchastel, and I wouldn't wonder if Mrs. Mansell knew it all herself, for her maid has a tongue a yard long.
It seemed really a great natural wonder, and he stopped that night at the village just below, Beauchastel, a hoary huddle of houses with the roofs all run together, and took a room at the little hotel, with a window looking to the eastward, from which, next morning, he saw the profile of the great stone face, wonderfully outlined against the sunrise.
'I hope she was the greengrocer's third cousin. 'Pshaw! I tell you it was Mrs. Mansell and her visitors. 'Oho! No wonder Beauchastel architecture is so grand. What an impudent fellow you are, Jem! 'The odd thing is, said James, a little ashamed of Louis having put Mansell and Beauchastel together, as he had not intended, 'that it seems they asked Bull who we were.
How little my first glance at the houses took in what they would be to me! And then they had to settle the haunts she was to revisit at Beauchastel. An invitation thither was the ostensible cause of the rapid break-up from the House Beautiful; but the truth was not so veiled but that there were many surmises among the uninitiated.
Mary would have been a wonderful person had she not instantly and utterly forgotten all her conclusions from Frampton's having declared him gone to Beauchastel for an unlimited time; but all she did was to turn away her crimson tearful face, and reply, 'Your father would not wish it now. 'Then the speculations have failed? So much the better! 'No, no! he must tell you
'Why did not Fitzjocelyn, come too? was murmured by the young group in the recess opposite the door; and when at last he became visible, leaning against the wall, listening to the Squire, Virginia declared he was going to serve them just as he used at Beauchastel.
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