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"Poor, dear Adelaide!" he said when he returned to the drawing-room, "how nice she is! but how tart she was about this Leam Dundas of yours! Looks like jealousy; and very likely is. All you women are so horribly jealous." "Not all of us," said Maria hastily. "And I do not think that Adelaide is," said Josephine.
At the same time, William Symongton launched the Charlotte Dundas, the steam tug-boat which, on the Scottish canals, did the first actually useful work in the conveyance of goods by steam power on the water. These small experiments have initiated a movement in maritime transport which is fully comparable to that brought about on land by the invention of the railway locomotive.
"I come to you from Mr. Dundas, on business which he told me was of the greatest and most pressing importance. That was the whole contents of the note; but a dozen sheets closely filled with arguments could not have moved me more.
"Oughter been a leetle handier with these hyar consarns," he said, touching the pistols in his belt. It vaguely occurred to Dundas that the young man went strangely heavily armed for an evening visit at a neighbor's house. But it was a lawless country and lawless times, and the sub-current of suggestion did not definitely fix itself in his mind until he remembered it later.
It is you English that are bad and false," said Leam at bay. Mrs. Dundas raised her hand, "Hush, hush, my child!" she said in a tone of gentle authority. "Say of me and to me what you like, but respect your father." "Oh, Leam has never done that," cried Mr. Dundas with intense bitterness. "No," said Leam, "I never have. You made mamma unhappy when she was alive: you are making her unhappy now.
She turned her tragic eyes to him with dumb reproach; but if she was sorrowful she was not craven, and though she meant him to see that she disapproved of his neglect which had indeed been too evident to be ignored she did not want him to think that she was unhappy because of it. "Are you not dancing, Miss Dundas?" asked Edgar as gravely as if he was putting a bonâ fide question.
Irritated at the malice of Miss Dundas, and despising the vulgar illiberality of Shafto, without deigning a reply, Pembroke abruptly left the room, and hastening out of the house, ran, rather than walked, in hopes of overtaking the countess before she reached Harrowby.
Dundas believed that his own leather case with the letters must have been stolen from his pocket in the train, though he couldn't imagine why the diamonds had been given to him instead. But he suspected a travelling companion of his, who had acted queerly; and he determined to try and find the man. He was to bring me news after the theatre at my house, about midnight.
All the same, he wished that her face had more expression and that her eyes were perfectly straight; and he wanted to see Leam Dundas. He had made a long round to-day, and was turning now homeward, when, as he had almost crossed the moor, athwart which his road led, he saw standing on a little hillock, away from the main track, the slight figure of a woman sharply defined against the sky.
Your father can do nothing. The matter is in the hands of the bank. We must either remain passive, and await the issue of events, or see Ormsby and put the case to him, appealing to him for a withdrawal of the prosecution." "What mercy do you think we shall get from him? You forget he is a prospective bridegroom, and his bride, Dora Dundas, is preparing for her wedding.
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