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"He does not ask to know why I turn to him and I do not ask to know why he cares about this particular child. It is taken for granted that is his affair and not mine. I am paid well to take care of Robin, and he knows that all I say and do is part of my taking care of her." After the visit of the Erwyn children, she had a brief interview with Coombe, in which she made for him a clear sketch.
There lay three garters, half a pair of gloves, And all the trophies of his former loves; With tender billet-doux he lights the pyre, And breathes three amorous sighs to raise the fire; Then prostrate falls, and begs with ardent eyes Soon to obtain, and long possess the prize." MR. ERWYN, a gentleman of the town, ceremonious and a coxcomb, but a man of honor.
Nay, I myself was affected by my first declaration," "Doubtless," said Mr. Erwyn, and sank beside her. "Lord Stephen was very moving." "I can assure you," said she, smiling, "that he was not the first." "I' gad," said he, "I remember perfectly, in the old days, when you were betrothed to that black-visaged young parson "
"Harkee," said he; "should he make a declaration this afternoon she will refuse him." "Why, but of course!" Lady Allonby marveled. "And the eighth time," said he. "Undoubtedly," said she; "but at whatever are you hinting?" "Yet the ninth time " "Well, what is it, you grinning monster?" Mr. Erwyn allowed himself a noiseless chuckle. "After the ninth time," Mr.
"Yes," said he, smiling over the dragon-embroidered barrier; "I admit that I am even now shuddering upon the verge of matrimony." "Indeed!" she marvelled, secure in her fortress. "Have you selected an accomplice?" "Split me, yes!" said Mr. Erwyn. "And have I the honor of her acquaintance?" said Miss Allonby. "Provoking!" said Mr. Erwyn; "no woman knows her better." Miss Allonby smiled. "Dear Mr.
Erwyn declared, "there will be an engagement." "Mr. Erwyn!" cried Lady Allonby, with widened eyes, "I had understood that Dorothy looked favorably upon your suit." "Anastasia!" cried he; and then his finger-tips lightly caressed his brow. "'Tis the first I had heard of it," said Mr. Erwyn. "Surely " she began.
She did so with a sign toward those lordly beings. "Believe me," said Mr. Erwyn, "'tis what I have long wished for. And when Miss Allonby honors me with her attention I shall, since my life's happiness depends upon the issue, plead with all the eloquence of a starveling barrister, big with the import of his first case.
Erwyn, "I have loved you all my life, first with a boyish inclination that I scarce knew was love, and, after your marriage with an honorable man had severed us, as I thought, irrevocably, with such lore as an ingenuous person may bear a woman whom both circumstances and the respect in which he holds her have placed beyond his reach, a love that might not be spoken, but of which I had considered you could never be ignorant."
"I was never allowed," said Miss Allonby, unconvincingly, "to go into secluded summer-houses with any one; and, besides, the gardeners keep their beer jugs there under the biggest bench." Mr. Erwyn beamed upon her paternally. "I was not, till this, aware," said he, "that Captain Audaine was so much interested in ornithology.
"Not precisely," said she, laughing; "since I had thought it apparent to the most timid lover that the first announcement came with best grace from him." "O' my conscience, then, I shall be a veritable Demosthenes," said Mr. Erwyn, laughing likewise; "and in common decency she will consent." "Your conceit." said Lady Allonby, "is appalling." "'Tis beyond conception," Mr.
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