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"Go, dear," she said; and David, drowsily obedient, murmured good- night. A minute later they heard him climbing up-stairs. Helena turned dumb eyes towards the silent figure on the hearth-rug, but he would not look at her. Under his breath he said one incredulous and tragic word: "You?" Then he looked at her. And at his look she hid her face in her bent arm.
My dear boy my dear fellow I never had such a tribute to my literary ability, never!" He broke into a chuckle at the thought, and halted on the hearth-rug, his hands still in his pockets, gazing down in honest perplexity at the youth's bowed head. Then, as Frenham still made no answer, he moved a step or two nearer. "Cheer up, my dear Phil!
It was quite dark, and very cold, and Martha had just built up a fire, and was setting a little table on the hearth-rug for Miss Hallam's tea. Suddenly the bell of the great gates rang a peal which reverberated through the silent house. There was no time for comment. The peal had been an urgent one, and it was repeated as Martha, followed by Elizabeth, hastened to the gates.
Garth sat up again, his face wild with protest. Jane turned on the hearth-rug, and stood watching it. "No, doctor," he said. "Oh, my God, no! In the whole world, she is the last person I would have enter this room!" Dr. Mackenzie bent forward to examine minutely a microscopic darn in the sheet. "And why?" he asked very low.
Give him a chance for education, to know something of the world he lives in, to catch one or two free breaths before he dies. He has been the man in the iron cage, since his birth, it seems to me." She got up as she spoke, rang the bell, and gave the baby to its nurse, wrapping it up in a blanket or two. When she turned, her husband was standing on the hearth-rug, a half-laugh in his eyes.
'If the Presence will go out into the veranda and listen, said the bearer, 'he will hear no cats. How, therefore, can the kitten on the bed and the kitten on the hearth-rug be real kittens? Lone Sahib went out to listen, and the bearer followed him, but there was no sound of any one mewing for her children.
It is certainly not a mere local attachment, such as the cat has for the particular hearth-rug where she dozes by day or the particular tiles and water-spouts where she howls by night.
After aimlessly moving chairs about for a few minutes, and prowling up and down the room, he paused and listened. What he heard induced him to stuff his pocket-handkerchief into the keyhole, and to lay the hearth-rug across the considerable chink which, as is usual, admitted a healthy draught under the bottom of the door. Then the Honorable Mr.
Aimée looked at her calmly, but with some quiet scrutiny in her glance. "As nice," she put it to her, "as nice as Ralph Gowan?" She grew rose-colored then in an instant up to her ears again and over them, and she turned her face aside and plucked at the hearth-rug with nervous fingers. "Well?" suggested Aimée. "He is as handsome and as tall, and he dresses as well."
But any man who can look well at his club, will look better as he clusters round the hounds; while many a one who is comely there, is mean enough as he stands on the hearth-rug before his club fire. In my mind men, like churches and books, and women too, should be brave, not mean, in their outward garniture. And Owen, as I have said, was brave as he walked into his dining-room.
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