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All things considered, then, they who wish well to Guy Darrell must range with Alban Morley in favour of Miss Honoria Vipont. She, proffering affectionate respect Darrell responding by rational esteem.
Darrell obeyed with a shrug of despair. I was alone and, as it seemed, ruined. Alas, why must I blurt out my old lessons as though I had been standing again at my father's knee and not in the presence of the Duke of York? Yes, my race was run before it was begun. The Court was not the place for me. In great bitterness I flung myself down on the cushions and sat there, out of heart and very dismal.
It was the sweetest, most satisfying drink, he had imbibed for many a day. But the morning was growing old, and Hiram wanted to trace the farther line of the farm. He went down to the river, crossed the open meadow again where they had built the campfire the morning before, and found the deeply scarred oak which stood exactly on the boundary line between the Atterson and Darrell tracts.
An hour later, on returning to the sleeper after an unsuccessful attempt at dining, Darrell sank into his seat, and, leaning wearily back, watched with half-closed eyes the rapidly changing scenes through which he was passing, for the time utterly oblivious to his surroundings.
I did want to put him in Harry's place. You and I are getting along in years, Jack, and it's time we had some young man getting broke to the harness, so that after a while he could take the brunt of things and let us old fellows slack up a bit." "We could not expect that of Darrell," said Mr. Britton.
Darrell faced his companion, a new light in his eyes but recently so dark with despair, as he asked, earnestly and tenderly, "Dearest and best of friends, is there no time appointed for the lifting of the burden borne so nobly and uncomplainingly, 'lo, these many years?" With a grave, sweet smile the elder man shook his head, and, rising, began pacing up and down the room.
It is Lady Montfort, widow to the last Marquess. You have no doubt heard Mr. Darrell speak of her?" "Never Mr. Darrell Colonel Morley often. And in the world I have heard her cited as perhaps the handsomest, and certainly the haughtiest, woman in England." "Never heard Mr.
Never before had Darrell been brought so near the unseen, the unknown, always surrounding us, but of which few of us are conscious, and for hours he sat motionless, lost in thought, grappling with problems hitherto unthought of, but which now perplexed and baffled him at every turn. At last, with a heavy sigh, he opened his eyes.
"I know from hearsay, that is all," Darrell replied, quietly; "I have heard the story a number of times." Walcott expressed great surprise. "Pardon me, Mr. Darrell, for referring to the matter. I had heard something regarding the peculiar nature of your malady, but I had no idea it was so marked as that. Is it possible that you have no recollection of that affair?"
Though her face was slightly averted, Darrell could see the tear-drops falling, but after a slight pause she proceeded as calmly as before: "In all these years he has tried to be both father and mother to me, and even in this he thinks he is acting for my good. I have never disobeyed him, and were I to do so now I believe it would break his heart.
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