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Mellot said he would go crazed some day; and be hanged if I don't think he is so now." Another five minutes, and Elsley rang the bell violently for hot brandy-and-water. Mrs. Owen came back looking a little startled, a letter in her hand. "The gentleman had drunk the liquor off at one draught, and ran out of the house like a wild man.
It's an insult to the whole Guards, my dear fellow, after refusing two of us, to marry an attorney, and after all to bolt with a plunger." What bolting with a plunger might signify, Elsley knew not: but ere he could ask, the Major rejoined, in an abstracted voice "God help us all!
It may seem strange that he should be afraid of her, though not so that he should be afraid of Campbell. But the truth is, that the man who bullies his wife very often does so as Elsley had done more than once simply to prove to himself his own strength, and hide his fear of her.
Engaged them a week ago, thinking I should be there by now; so you may as well keep them aired for me. Come, Valencia, pack up your millinery! Lucia, get the cradles ready, and we'll have them all on board by twelve. Capital plan, Vavasour, isn't if? and, by Jove, what stunning poetry you will write there under Snowdon!" "But will you not want your rooms yourself, Lord Scoutbush?" said Elsley.
Ah, true sisters of mercy, whom the world sneers at as "old maids," if you pour out on cats and dogs and parrots, a little of the love which is yearning to spend itself on children of your own flesh and blood! Next morning Mark started with Tom to call on Elsley, chatting and puffing all the way. "I'll butter him, trust me.
And at last, without a note of warning, appeared in Beddgelert a phenomenon which rejoiced some hearts, but perturbed also the spirits not only of the Oxford "philanderers," but those of Elsley Vavasour, and, what is more, of Valencia herself. She was sitting one evening at the window with Lucia, looking out into the village and the pleasure-grounds before the hotel.
And, as it is of the nature of man to hate those whom he fears, Elsley began to have dark and ugly feelings toward Lucia. Instead of throwing them away, as a strong man would have done, he pampered them almost without meaning to do so.
Tom looked a stout yes, and Elsley said languidly, "You have given me so much new and good advice in a few minutes, sir, that I must really do myself the pleasure of coming and hearing more." "Well done, our side!" cried old Mark. "Dinner at half-past five. No London late hours here, sir. Miss Armsworth will be out of her mind when she hears you're coming." And off he went.
"Serve the wretched stick right, at least," said Scoutbush. "What right had he to marry such a pretty woman?" "What right had they to marry her up to him?" said Claude. "I don't blame poor January. I suppose none of us, gentlemen, would have refused such a pretty toy, if we could have afforded it as he could." "Whom do you blame then?" asked Elsley.
He knew well that woman's tongue, when once the "fair beast" is brought to bay, is a weapon far too trenchant to be faced by any shield but that of a very clear conscience toward her; which was more than Elsley had.
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