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Hugh Carnaby's position called for no lament; he had a sufficient income of his own, and would now easily overcome his wife's pernicious influence; with or without her, he would break away from a life of corrupting indolence, and somewhere beyond seas 'beat the British drum' use his superabundant vitality as nature prompted. After all, it promised to clear the air.
I didn't know," said Robinette innocently. "It shows we shouldn't go anywhere without our first cousin once removed. We just began to talk, here in the boat, and the water went away and left us." Then she laughed, and Mark laughed too, and Carnaby's look of unutterable scorn seemed to have no effect upon them.
The rest of the household he treated civilly, but with none of that awe which was perhaps expected from him. As for shooting, he had come direct from his friend Carnaby's moor. Carnaby had forest as well as moor, and Fred thought but little of partridges, little of such old-fashioned partridge-shooting as was prepared for him at Scroope, after grouse and deer.
The story of Hugh Carnaby's good fortune interested her greatly. She elicited every detail of which Harvey had been informed; asked shrewd questions; and yet had the air of listening only for her amusement. 'Should you have thought Redgrave likely to do such a thing? Rolfe inquired. 'Oh, I don't know him at all well. He has been a friend of Sibyl's for a long time so, of course
Carnaby's nose which made everybody sorry now for Dale: but everybody started, Mr. Carnaby and all, at Mr. Tooke's voice, close at hand. How much he had seen and heard, there was no knowing; but it was enough to make him look extremely stern. "Are these boys not caned yet, Mr. Carnaby?" "No, sir; I have not I " "Have they been standing here all this while?" "Yes, sir. I have no cane, sir.
There had been no treason whatever in the office; neither had anything come out through the proctorial firm in York, or Sir Walter Carnaby's solicitors; but a note among longheaded Duncombe's papers had got into the hands of Mordacks. Of that, however, Mr. Jellicorse had no idea.
"She makes no more noise than a pair of scissors cutting flowers; not half so much!" he said proudly. Branch after branch fell down and lay about the tree like the discarded garments of a bathing nymph. The petals fell upon Carnaby's face, upon his hair and shoulders; he was a white figure as he toiled. Frightened birds and bats flew about, but he did not notice them.
But to-night she was moved by the positively human sentiment which had been stirred in her by Carnaby's startling act of cutting the plum tree down. Ah! let fools believe if they could that she was angry with the boy! She had never felt anger less or pride more.
Thud! thud! went the axe on the trunk of the tree, and the sweat broke out all over Carnaby's skin, not with exertion but with nervous terror. "If that doesn't wake the dead!" he thought but there was no awaking in the cottage. Its tiny window blinked in the moonlight, and Carnaby thought he heard the drowsy quack of a duck in an out-house. But the danger passed. Thud! went the axe again.
The writer was Mrs. Bennet Frothingham. 'We have only just heard, from Mrs. Carnaby, that you are back in town. Could you spare us tomorrow evening? It would be so nice of you. The quartet will give Beethoven's F minor, and Alma says it will be well done the conceit of the child! We hope to have some interesting people What a shocking affair of poor Mrs. Carnaby's!
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