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The next afternoon, about two, when all Melkbridge was agog with excitement at the wedding of Major Perigal's son to Victoria Devitt, two funeral carriages might have been seen drawing up at a cottage in the Broughton Road.
Mr Hutton wanted guarantees; failing these, was Mavis in any kind of employment? Mavis told him how she was employed by Mr Devitt. The man opened his eyes. Had the lady proof of this statement? Mavis thrust her hand into her pocket, believing she might find the letter which Montague Devitt had written to Pimlico.
She was surprised at the swift, easy motion, but had an idea that, soon after they left the house, Lowther Devitt was not travelling so fast as when they set out. "How delightful!" she cried. "Eh!" "I've never been in a motor before." "What?" "I really haven't. Don't talk: I want to enjoy it." Seeing that the girl was disinclined for speech, he increased the pace.
RATIFICATION. When the Federal Amendment went to the last vote in Congress, the Iowa delegation maintained its record on each vote that had been taken, both Senators and ten of the eleven Representatives all but Harry E. Hull casting their votes in the affirmative. Immediately Mrs. Devitt of Oskaloosa, acting president, and Mrs.
I married Mr my husband six years ago." "I suppose he knew him?" "I gather so." Very soon after, the two men came into the drawing-room, having considerably curtailed the time they usually devoted to their cigars. "We were discussing getting something to do for Miss Keeves," said Mrs Devitt. "You haven't thought of anything?" asked her husband. "Not yet," replied his wife.
Her disposition is winnin' and unaffected, but I think it my duty to mention that, on what might appear to others as slight provocation, Miss Keeves is apt to give way to sudden fits of passion, which, however, are of short duration. Doubtless, this is a fault of youth which years and experience will correct." "Rebellious!" commented Mrs Devitt.
Mavis hoped that he would not see her; but the fates willed otherwise. One of the porters dropped a package, which fell with a resounding thwack at Mavis's feet. Devitt turned, to see Mavis. "Miss Keeves!" he said, raising his hat. Mavis bowed. "May I speak to you a moment?" he asked, after glancing at Miss Toombs, and furtively lifting his hat to this person. Mavis joined him.
He looked intently at the window of the room that Mavis occupied. At the same moment Mrs Budd came into the room to ask what Mavis would like for luncheon. "Who is that passing?" asked Mavis. The old woman ran lightly to the window. "The gentleman on that machine?" "Yes. I've often seen him about." "It's Mr Harold Devitt, miss." "Harold Devitt!
Mrs Devitt and Miss Spraggs were silent when they learned of Mavis's good fortune; they were torn between enhanced respect for Harold's wife and concern for Victoria, who had married a penniless man. Mavis could not gauge the effect of the news on Victoria, as she had gone back to London after Major Perigal's funeral, her husband remaining at Melkbridge for the reading of the will.
People are staring at us already." "I can't see you so well walking," he complained. They strolled along; as they walked, Windebank half turned, so that his eyes never left her face. "What a beautiful girl you are!" he said. "You mustn't say that." "But it's true. And to think of you working for that outsider Devitt!" "He means well. And I've been very happy there."
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