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"Mary! what could make you think of her?" "As a hen thinks of her ducklings when they go into waters beyond her ken," said Ethel. "Well, as long as it is not Mary, I don't care!" "High life!" repeated Meta. "Oh, it can be only Agatha Langdale." "There's only Lord Cosham further to guess," said Ethel. "Eh! why not young Ogilvie?" said Dr. May. "I am right, I see. Well, who is the lady?"
"At least," said Ethel, "you can't go till after your birthday, Miss Heiress." "No, Uncle Cosham is coming," said Meta. "Margaret, you must have your stone laid before we go!" "Dr. Spencer promises it before Hector's holidays are over," said Margaret, blushing, as she always did, with pleasure, when they talked of the church. Hector Ernescliffe had revived Margaret wonderfully.
He paused so long over the book that Mrs. Cosham had time to look over his shoulder and ask her niece: "And have you settled upon a house yet, Katharine?" This convinced him of the truth of the monstrous idea. He looked up at once and said: "Yes, it's a difficult passage." His voice had changed so much, he spoke with such curtness and even with such contempt, that Mrs.
"I don't think Uncle Cosham would object, especially hearing it while he is here," said Meta "and if he knew what you told us." "He goes to-morrow, does he not?" said Dr. May. A silence of perplexity ensued. Meta, brave as she was, hardly knew her uncle enough to volunteer, and Norman was privately devising a beginning by the way of George, when Dr.
Cosham was so appareled with hanging muffs, chains, and swinging draperies that it was impossible to detect the shape of a human being in the mass of brown and black which filled the arm-chair. Mrs. Milvain was a much slighter figure; but the same doubt as to the precise lines of her contour filled Ralph, as he regarded them, with dismal foreboding.
Lord Cosham made his niece listen to a kind exhortation not to press her influence towards a decision that might be repented, when too late to be repaired, without a degrading sense of failure putting her in mind of the privations that would lose romance by their pettiness, and which money could not remedy; and very sensibly representing that the effect of these on temper and health was to be duly considered as a serious impediment to usefulness.
Study your clients, young man, and the world will be the richer one of these days, I have no doubt. Tell me, how do we come out of it, now; better or worse than you expected?" Thus called upon to sum up the worth of human nature in a few words, Ralph answered unhesitatingly: "Worse, Mrs. Cosham, a good deal worse. I'm afraid the ordinary man is a bit of a rascal " "And the ordinary woman?"
At last, what do you think Meta did? She went to her uncle, Lord Cosham, and appealed to him to say whether there was the least necessity for her to go to court." "Then she gained the day?" said Norman. "He was delighted with that spirited, yet coaxing way of hers, and admired her determination.
And perhaps you'll send a cable home for me. Address Thesiger Smith, Cosham. Say 'All well." "I'll do it, with pleasure." "Thanks. Good-bye. Sorry I've got to rush off." He shook hands all round, and jumped on board. Rodier had already taken his place at the engine.
At Havant he took an opportunity to purchase, at small hairdresser's in the main street, a toothbrush, a pair of nail scissors, and a little bottle of stuff to darken the moustache, an article the shopman introduced to his attention, recommended highly, and sold in the excitement of the occasion. They rode on to Cosham and lunched lightly but expensively there.
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