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I wish you'd come down to my place for Sunday.... No, don't shake hands I want to slide away unawares." He had backed away to the threshold and was turning the noiseless door-knob. Even Mrs. Cumnor's doorknobs had tact and didn't tell. "Of course I'll come," I promised warmly. In the last ten minutes he had begun to interest me again. "All right Good-bye."
He wanted a vent for his ill-humour; and suddenly remembering the devastation on his covers, which he had heard about not a quarter of an hour before, he rode up to the men busy at work on Lord Cumnor's land. Just before he got up to them he encountered Mr. Preston, also on horseback, come to overlook his labourers.
'Let him alone; he's very well amused hearing all the news of the day from Brown. Then I shall come under promise? So Molly drove off in solitary grandeur; and Miss Brownings' knocker was loosened on its venerable hinges by the never-ending peal of Lord Cumnor's footman. They were full of welcome, full of curiosity.
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