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"I will take thee to my heart, and if thou art unhappy, thou mayest return when thou desirest; but 'twill be my pleasure to keep thee with me alway; we will go to London." Constance, having read the letter, knew it would not do for her to leave the drawing-room at the same hour with Katherine, and she hardly knew what to do.
He suggested various ameliorating treatments to Hugo, who received his advice with respectful gratitude, and they arranged to drive again together on Saturday, which was next day but one. Hugo sought the sofa in the drawing-room for a quiet hour before dinner and lit a cigar.
Just as I passed the drawing-room door, however, it opened suddenly, and Lady Angela came out, talking to a white-haired old gentleman, who carried a stick on which he leaned heavily. He looked at me rather curiously, and then began to hobble down the hall at a great pace. But Lady Angela laid her hand upon his arm. "Why, Sir Michael," she exclaimed, "this won't do at all.
Stephen and I will have our coffee comfortably in the drawing-room and find what excuses we can for you." But Stephen put out his hand with a movement of slightly rigid deprecation. "If it is not too vacillating of me," he said, "and I may be forgiven, I think I will change my mind, and go.
"With all my heart," replied Josephine; "but how?" "Come to our mother, and settle that," said the impetuous sister, and nearly dragged the languid one into the drawing-room. To their surprise they found the baroness walking up and down the room with unusual alacrity for a person of her years.
He was neither asleep nor awake he was between the two. My mind misgave me, and I went on to the admiral's room. The door was open, and the bed was empty. "Mr. Mazey and I went downstairs instantly. We looked in all the north rooms, one after another, and found no traces of him. I thought of the drawing-room next, and, being the more active of the two, went first to examine it.
"Well, shall I see him for you?" But Faith was not going to allow this. After all, she was Forrester's wife and mistress of the house. "I'll see him myself," she said. Peg smiled, well pleased, and presently Faith went slowly down the stairs, with a nervously beating heart, and pushed open the closed drawing-room door.
Foster had proposed to her that afternoon in the park. We, far off in the drawing-room, heard the shrill whistle with which Livingstone greeted the intelligence. "You accepted him, of course?" he said. "O Guy!" Miss Raymond answered, blushing more than ever. Do you know I think I saw the tears standing in his eyes; and I only guessed at the words when he said 'God bless you!"
While Hadassah was thinking these things, and thanking God in her heart that her husband, by reason of his special qualifications, had at once been placed in a post of great responsibility and one far removed from the danger-zone, Margaret had reached the drawing-room. She paused for a moment outside the door; she needed all her self-control.
"Whether she has not been insulted? You are right, Margaret. Make haste back to her, and beg her pardon for us all. Shall she not, children, if she will be so kind?" Margaret was overwhelmed with the petitions for pardon she had to carry; and not one of the children asked what Mrs Hope had been crying for, after all. Hester looked up anxiously as Margaret entered the drawing-room at home.
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