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But in privacy Sibyl did not look her best. Assuredly not after the withdrawal of Mrs. Strangeways, when her lips, sneering away their fine contour, grew to an ugly hardness, and her eyes smalled themselves in a vicious intensity of mental vision. Major Carnaby, Hugh's brother, was now in England. A stranger to the society in which Mrs.
Neither Robinette nor Lavendar could expatiate to the boy on his grandmother's peculiarities, but Carnaby had contrived to find out for himself how the land lay. "Why is Waller R. A. so keen on the plum tree?" he had enquired. "He wants to make a quartette of studies," answered Lavendar. "The Plum Tree in spring, summer, autumn, and winter." "What a rotten idea!" said Carnaby simply.
To Alma's questioning she replied frankly and with self-reproach. It was true that she had whispered her friend's suspicions of Mrs. Carnaby, but only to one person, and in strictest confidence. Neither she nor Gerda had met Mrs Carnaby, and how the whisper could have reached Sibyl's ears was inconceivable to her. 'It doesn't matter in the least, said Alma, finally.
She rode by, her eyes dark in her white face, and scarcely noticed me. She winced and grew stiff at the sight of me and bowed her head. But Carnaby, because he thought I was a broken and discomfited man, saluted me with an easy friendliness, and shouted some genial commonplace to me. They passed out of sight and left me by the roadside....
Eight times seven did, and he said "fifty-six" with great satisfaction, Mr Carnaby asked him afterwards the dreaded question, but he was on his guard; and as he answered it right, and the usher had not found out the joke, he hoped he should hear no more of the matter. The next Saturday was fine, and at last he was to have the walk he longed for.
Of course, if I had thought of it I might have sent you with her." "No," said Seaforth, smiling. "I should scarcely fancy that was the reason, and I don't fancy the arrangement suggested would have given Miss Deringham any great pleasure. Nor do I think I should have gone." "No?" said Alton inquiringly. "No," said Seaforth dryly. "I'm not Alton of Somasco and Carnaby you see."
Still, he had good news to communicate, and he began by asking whether Harvey saw much of Redgrave. 'Redgrave? echoed the other in surprise. 'Why, I hardly know him. 'But your wife knows him very well. 'Yes; I dare say she does. Carnaby did not observe his friend's countenance; he was eating with great appetite. 'Redgrave isn't at all a bad fellow. I didn't know him much till lately.
Rolfe also had visited the island, and remembered it much more agreeably, his impressions seeming to be chiefly gastronomic; he recalled the exquisite flavour of Cyprian hares, the fat francolin, the delicious beccaficoes in commanderia wine; with merry banter from Carnaby, professing to despise a man who knew nothing of game but its taste.
Pet hated this performance, and generally spoiled it by making a face over his shoulder at old Welldrum, while he strode along in real or mock awe of Aunt Philippa. "If you please, my ladies," said the butler now, choosing Mrs. Carnaby for his eyes to rest on, "Mr. Lancelot beg to be excoosed of dinner. His head is that bad that he have gone for open air."
Alma stared at him, her parted lips quivering with an abortive laugh. 'Do you understand? She says that you were furiously jealous of Mrs Carnaby, and didn't care what you did to ruin her; that you put Redgrave's housekeeper up to telling Carnaby lies about his wife. 'How long has she been saying this? 'I heard it for the first time about two months ago. But let me go on.
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