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The face was careworn now, and the delicate features had a pinched and drawn look, the thin lips a half-cynical, half-peevish expression. It was not a pleasant countenance, in spite of its look of high birth; nor was there any likeness between Marmaduke Lovel and his daughter.
"Really, Brandon," said Mauleverer, with a half-peevish smile, "any other hour in the day would have done for 'the business of the nation, as the newspapers call that troublesome farce we go through; and I had imagined you would not have broken my nightly slumbers except for something of real importance, the discovery of a new beauty or the invention of a new dish."
"Ah, Miss! it is a lone place for one so beautiful as you are to be alone. You ought never to be on foot." The girl stopped, and looked full, but without any alarm in her eyes, into the man's face. "Go away!" she said, with a half-peevish, half-kindly tone of command. "I don't know you."
"Ah, Miss! it is a lone place for one so beautiful as you are to be alone. You ought never to be on foot." The girl stopped, and looked full, but without any alarm in her eyes, into the man's face. "Go away!" she said, with a half-peevish, half-kindly tone of command. "I don't know you."
Lord Fontenoy ceased to talk; yet every now and then, as some jolt of the carriage made George open his eyes, he saw the broad-shouldered figure beside him, sitting in the same attitude, erect and tireless, the same half-peevish pugnacity giving expression to mouth and eye. "Come, wake up, Tressady! Here we are!" There was a vindictive eagerness in Fontenoy's voice.
He went down to Blinkhampton the next morning, harried his builder out of a holiday expedition, and got a useful bit of work in hand. It was, he supposed, inevitable that Cecily should journey with him in the spirit to Blinkhampton; he flattered himself that she got very little chance while he was there. She was the enemy, he declared, with a half-peevish half-humorous smile.
"I am sure," she answered, in the half-petted half-peevish tone that evinces a weak mind "I am sure if any thing was to happen to you, I would break my heart at once, and my family, of course, would provide for the children. I could not bear the idea of reaping any advantage by your death; and really the jobs are so very inferior to what they used to be and Dr.
"Really, Brandon," said Mauleverer, with a half-peevish smile, "any other hour in the day would have done for 'the business of the nation, as the newspapers call that troublesome farce we go through; and I had imagined you would not have broken my nightly slumbers except for something of real importance, the discovery of a new beauty or the invention of a new dish."
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