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He slept far into a bright morning, and when the doctor came he pronounced his little patient as convalescent. "You may get up to-morrow, and we shall have you out with the otter hounds on Saturday, my little man," he said with a kind smile. Jeff's eyes sought Mr. Colquhoun's face with an eager look of inquiry.
When Menteith saw the two walking so familiarly arm in arm, he glanced at Colonel Colquhoun out of the comers of his eyes to see how he took it. But Colonel Colquhoun's face remained serenely impassive. "Easy!" he said. "We won't overtake them till we arrive at the house. I expect he is seeing her home, and as Mrs.
"Which made it doubly a Delphic oracle for vagueness to me," said Mrs. Orton Beg, "because Colonel Colquhoun's name was also George." "Now, this is a singular coincidence!" I exclaimed. "Ah!" she ejaculated. "But I do not talk of 'coincidences' there is a special providence, you know." "Which deserts Edith and protects Evadne?" "You are incorrigible!" "You are a demon worshipper!
Guthrie Brimston laughed aloud, while Evadne's laugh was soundless. Evadne suffered when she found herself being toadied by these people. She said nothing, however. They were Colonel Colquhoun's friends, and she felt herself forced to be civil to them so long as he chose to bring them to the house. And they were besides an evil out of which good came to her quickly.
"She should not have brought me all the way from London if she had nothing to say," he grumbled. "I'll go back to-night. And I might as well go and see Colquhoun this morning." He went down to Mr. Colquhoun's office, and was not received very cordially by that gentleman. The interview resulted in rather a violent quarrel, which ended by Percival being requested to leave Mr.
A concern that he was chairman of had invested in British Columbian mining stock; and he's some kind of connection of Colquhoun's." Colquhoun was a man of some importance, who held a Crown appointment, and Vane felt inclined to wonder why Chisholm had not sent him a letter to him. Afterward, he guessed at the reason, which was not flattering to himself or his host.
What was the bitter disappointment to the little aching heart in comparison with the maintenance of her own dignity and authority! But Jeff went brooding down the avenue with his books slung over his back, and on his face there was a set look of despair, which boded no good to Mr. Colquhoun's authority.
At present and especially as the temporary interest inspired by the young Italian died away he felt as if he cared too little for his future to resolve upon doing anything. There was a letter waiting for him, addressed in Mr. Colquhoun's handwriting. He had not even the heart to open it and see what the lawyer had to say.
You should have seen Colquhoun's face! He went on leave immediately afterward, and of course the matter was hushed up. Roylance exchanged. He'd lots of money. It's the men without means that have to stand that kind of thing." My voice was husky and I could scarcely control it, but I managed to ask: "What was the insinuation?" "What, about Roylance? Just a lie!
And then he fussed off himself, with agitation evident in every step. Something like a smile disturbed Major Colquhoun's calm countenance for a moment, and then he stood, twisting the ends of his fair moustache slowly with his left hand, and gazing into the fire, which shone reflected in his steely blue eyes, making them glitter like pale sapphires, coldly, while he waited. Mr.
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