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He had arrived early in the hope of finding Toby at liberty, but his young fianceé was nowhere to be found. She had gone out riding, Maud said, immediately after luncheon, and he realized with some disgust that he had forgotten to tell her on the previous day of his coming.
Moreover, he showed not the least sign that he had any idea such information might be startlingly obnoxious to his fiancee. "Glenn! It's so so queer," she ejaculated. "That you Glenn Kilbourne-should ever go in for for hogs!... It's unbelievable. How'd you ever ever happen to do it?" "By Heaven! you're hard on me!" he burst out, in sudden dark, fierce passion.
She had never been quite popular with the school in her previous role of fiancee, and only Octavia Dean and one or two older girls appreciated its mysterious fascination; while the beautiful Rupert, secure in his avowed predilection for the middle-aged wife of the proprietor of the Indian Spring hotel, looked upon her as a precocious chit with more than the usual propensity to objectionable "breathing."
"I can't say, I'm sure. He met me here for dinner at seven and has been here since." He hung up the receiver viciously. He had not expected to have to lie to Grell's fiancée when he had promised not to disclose his friend's absence from the club. It was too bad of Grell. His eye met the clock, and with a start he realised that it was a few minutes to eleven o'clock.
"That's just where he is most lucky of all," answered the young lady to whom I was talking it was Scroope's fiancée, Miss Manners "for he is engaged to a lady that, I am told, is the loveliest, sweetest, cleverest girl in all England, and they absolutely adore each other." "Dear me!" I repeated. "I wonder what Fate has got up its sleeve for Lord Ragnall and his perfect lady-love?"
He was dressed entirely in black, of the best materials and Paris cut; his age was over fifty, and his features well made, but pinched and of an ashen tint. His expression of strange woe roused her sympathy and quieted her fears. "Who are you?" she said. He took no notice of her words. "Are you la Montmorency," he asked, "the fiancée of the Guardsman?" "This is a strange question," she exclaimed.
"I am told that in every introductory lecture on women's diseases the medical students are admonished to remember that each one of them has a mother, a sister, a fiancée, before undressing and examining a female patient. . . . That advice would be very good not only for medical students but for everyone who in one way or another has to deal with a woman's life.
Musgrave not I who imparted the regrettable tale of your brother's shortcomings to his fiancée. In some fashion she conceived it to be her duty to do so." "You meant her to do it!" flashed back Noel. "Ah! that is another story," smiled Hunt-Goring. "We are not discussing motives or intentions. I think.
"Can't you dispense with your fiancée to-morrow, Trenby? . . . But just as you like, of course," he added courteously. Roger hesitated. The frank appeal was disarming, shaking the suspicion he was harbouring. "Let's leave it like this," continued Rooke, following up his advantage.
It was at Lausanne that she met and fell in love with Gibbon, the English historian; this love affair met with opposition from Gibbon's father, and, after the death of the father of his fiancée, a calamity which left her poor and necessitated her teaching for a living, the Englishman, by his actions and manner toward her, compelled the breaking of their engagement.
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