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With a smile to Cupples, Alec led the way. He would have told his mother almost everything if she had been genial. As she was, he contented himself with a general confession that he had been behaving very badly, and would have grown ten times worse but for Mr Cupples, who was the best friend that he had on earth. "Better than your mother, Alec?" she asked, jealously.
Sir James smiled and rattled the money in his pockets cheerfully. "It makes a good bill," he observed to Mr. Silver, who stood at his elbow. Such was Manderson's epitaph. At about eight o'clock in the morning of the following day Mr. Nathaniel Burton Cupples stood on the veranda of the hotel at Marlstone. He was thinking about breakfast.
Mr Cupples was puzzled to account for her absence, but came to see into the mother's defensive strategy, who had not yet learned to leave such things to themselves; though she might have known by this time that the bubbles of scheming mothers, positive or negative, however well-blown, are in danger of collapsing into a drop of burning poison.
At one time I made a fool of myself about a girl, and that was not a happy time; but it taught me to understand the great goodness of Mrs. Manderson." Marlowe inclined his head to Mr. Cupples as he said this. "She may choose to tell you about it.
I crossed the road, climbed the fence, and ran across the meadow to pick up the field-path I had come by, that runs to the hotel behind White Gables. I got back to the hotel very much out of breath." "Out of breath," repeated Trent mechanically, still staring at his companion as if hypnotized. "I had had a sharp run," said Mr. Cupples.
And when he came home, instead of going up-stairs to Mr Cupples, he went straight to bed. The next morning, while he was at breakfast, Mr Cupples made his appearance in his room. "What cam' o' ye last nicht, bantam?" he asked kindly, but with evident uneasiness. "I cam' hame some tired, and gaed straucht to my bed." "But ye warna hame verra ear'." "I wasna that late." "Ye hae been drinkin' again.
Cupples, that, at a very ancient period, the males were the most celebrated, the females being mentioned only as the mothers of famous dogs. Hence, during many generations, it is the male which has been chiefly tested for strength, size, speed, and courage, and the best will have been bred from.
Annie knew that he must be occupying her room; and was on the point of expressing a hope that he "wadna be disturbit wi' the rottans," when she saw that it would lead to new explanations and delays. "Good night, Mr Cupples," she said, holding out her hand.
After consultation, James Dow consented to a three years' loan, beyond which he would not yield. Papers to this effect were signed, and one quarter's interest more was placed in Annie's willing hand. In the middle of summer Mr Cupples made his appearance, and was warmly welcomed.
And as his life thus ebbed away from him, his feelings towards Beauchamp grew more and more bitter, approximating in character to those of Beauchamp towards him. And he soon became resolved to have his revenge on him, though it was long before he could make up his mind as to what the revenge should be. Beauchamp avoided him constantly. And Mr Cupples was haunting him unseen.
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