United States or Mongolia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"To-morrow!" exclaimed Lord Bracondale; "but I want to talk to her to-night!" "Get rid of your party, then, and join us for coffee," and the widow smiled archly as she passed on. Theodora bowed with grave sweetness as she also went by, and most of the others greeted Hector, while one woman stopped and told him she was going to have an automobile party in a day or two, and she hoped he would come.
Lady Bracondale was sufficiently soothed by her happy dream of the cause of Hector's visit to Beechleigh to be coldly polite to Theodora, whom Anne had presented to her before luncheon. She sat at the turn of the long, oval table just one off, and was consequently able to observe her very carefully.
She had no time to lose, so she picked up the last two envelopes which lay on the top of the pile and read the first: To Josiah Brown, Esq., Claridge's Hotel, Brook Street, London, W. and the other: The Lord Bracondale, Bracondale Chase, Bracondale. "The husband and the lover!" she said to herself. And a sudden temptation came over her, swift and strong and not to be resisted.
See him casually, as the rest of the guests, and this is how it would be forever for ever and ever. Lord Bracondale had passed what he termed a dog's day. He had gone racing, and there had met, and been bitterly reproached by, Esclarmonde de Chartres for his neglect. Qu'est-ce qu'il a eu pour toute une semaine?
"The end of the story I do not know," said Lord Bracondale; "the fairy who told it to me would not say what happened to them, only that the prince was wounded, deeply wounded, with Love's arrow. Aren't you sorry for the prince, beautiful princess?" Theodora opened her blue parasol, although no ray of sunshine fell upon her there. She was going through the first moment of this sort in her life.
That to possess this exquisite bit of God's finished work for his very own, to live with her in the country, at old Bracondale, to see her honored and adored, surrounded by little children his children would be a dream of bliss far, far beyond any dream he had ever known.
I always point out Hector Bracondale to strangers or foreigners; he is quite a show Englishman." "Bracondale? Lord Bracondale?" interrupted Josiah Brown. "We met him in Paris, did we not, my love?" turning to Theodora. "He dined with us our last evening. Where is he?" "Oh, you know him, then!" said Mrs. Devlyn, disappointed. "I wanted to be the first to point him out to you.
"It seems all very green and fair," said Theodora, and she leaned back against the tree and half closed her eyes. He lay on the grass at her feet, his hat thrown off beside him, and in a desert island they could not have been more alone and undisturbed. The greatest temptation that Hector Bracondale had ever yet had in his life came to him then.
"My party was all made up but for one extra man," she said, "whom I think I have found; and we did not need these people." Lord Bracondale arrived at his sister's house in Charles Street about a quarter of an hour before her luncheon guests were due. Anne rushed down to see him, meeting her husband on the stairs.
She wondered which of the two men was the handsomer as she got out of the automobile dear, darling papa or Lord Bracondale; both were quite show creatures of their age, and both were of the same class and knowledge of savoir-vivre.
Word Of The Day