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He rode right past the women, and drew rein, as Nick Garth said fiercely: "Well, youngster, have you come to enjoy's morning's work?" "What have I ever done to make you think me such a cowardly brute, Nick Garth?" said Mark boldly; as the others uttered a menacing growl. "Well," he continued, "is that all you have to say? What about your young master?"
"When she is with you, you will have no thoughts for other people." "Indeed, but I shall!" cried Garth. "And, dear little Rosemary, I shall miss you, horribly. No one not even she can take your place. And, do you know," he leaned forward, and a troubled look clouded the gladness of his face, "I am beginning to feel anxious about it. She has not seen me since the accident.
The last item of the local programme is in course of performance, after which the duchess explains Velma's laryngitis let us hope she will not call it 'appendicitis' and then I usher you up. Are you ready?" Garth Dalmain, as master of ceremonies, had sought Jane Champion on the terrace, and stood before her in the soft light of the hanging Chinese lanterns.
She rose from the ground where she had flung herself and came to him, peering at him with eyes that looked like two dark stains in the whiteness of her face. "I though you were dead," she said dully. "Drowned. I mean oh, of course, it's the same thing, isn't it?" And she laughed, the shrill, choking laughter of overwrought nerves. Garth observed her narrowly.
Her hair was flying from its moorings; her face flamed; and her hat sat at a disreputably rakish angle. As she piled up her encumbrances on the chair next to the girl, and took off her coat, she bubbled over with indistinguishable, anxious mutterings. At last she sank into the seat by Garth with something between a sigh and a moan. "I've lost my husband," she announced at large.
Meanwhile Jane had turned to the left and passed slowly to her room. Garth had not taken her half-proffered hand, and she knew perfectly well why. He would never again be content to clasp her hand in friendship. If she cut him off from the touch which meant absolute possession, she cut herself off from the contact of simple comradeship. Garth, to-night, was like a royal tiger who had tasted blood.
Knowing by experience that interference would be hopeless, under these circumstances, Miss Garth turned sharply and left the room. She smiled when she was outside on the landing. The female mind does occasionally though not often project itself into the future. Miss Garth was prophetically pitying Magdalen's unfortunate husband.
He rested his hand on the upper rim of the garden gate, and looked with curious affection at the inscription in faded gold letters that ran along it. The inscription read, 'Blarulfsgarth, and he remembered ever so far back asking what that inscription meant, and being told that it was Icelandic, and that it meant the Garth, or Farm, of the Blue Wolf.
Lord Martindale's first care was for Violet and the children, Lady Martindale's for her aunt, and almost instantly she was embracing and supporting the pale shrunken figure, now feebly tottering along the gallery, forsaken by Mrs. Garth, who had gone back to secure her own valuables.
"I'll try not to," she said meekly. The darkness swallowed the smile and the shine her eyes bent on him. If Garth expected a sad beginning he was immediately undeceived. Natalie's invincible spirits launched her gaily on her tale. "I've lived all my days in a Canadian city back East," she began; "too big a place to be simple; and too small to be finished.
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