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Poor Maurice ventures to talk to Edith of 'shoes and ships and sealing wax, and Eleanor weeps! Why are there more jealous women than men?" "Because," Mary Houghton said, dryly, "more men give cause for jealousy than women." "Touché! Touché!" he conceded; then added, quickly, "But Maurice isn't giving any cause." "Well, I'm not so sure," she said.
"Then they don't talk about it, Lord Brotherton. Your brother you know did want me to marry him." "What, George? Before Houghton?" "Certainly; before I had thought of Mr. Houghton." "Why the deuce did you refuse him? Why did you let him take that little " He did not fill up the blank, but Mrs. Houghton quite understood that she was to suppose everything that was bad.
As he brought him into the parlor, Henry Houghton, who had just come in, looked at the father and son, and felt astonishment tingle in his veins like an electric shock. He gripped Maurice's hand, silently, and gave Jacky's ear a friendly pull. "Edith," Maurice Said, "I would take him home, but I mustn't leave Eleanor. Will you get one of the maids to put him on a Medfield car "
If therefore, in my talk to you about Miss Houghton, I have succeeded in arousing your indignation, in the slightest degree, I shall be encouraged by knowing that my efforts for your good, have been made in the right direction." "Pardon me, Fillmore! I fear I have been hasty! And, that I have entirely misjudged your motive!
Henry Houghton, obliged to throw away a half-smoked cigar, and, saying under his breath that he wished he was asleep, was cross; but his wife was pleasantly commonplace. She kissed the bride, and the groom, too, and said that Edith was in a great state of excitement about them! Then she condoled with Eleanor about the heat, and told Maurice there were cinders on his hat.
Of Sydney Smith Lord Houghton recorded that "he never, except once, knew him to make a jest on any religious subject, and then he immediately withdrew his words, and seemed ashamed that he had uttered them;" and I regard the admirable Sydney as not only the supreme head of all ecclesiastical jesters, but as, on the whole, the greatest humorist whose jokes have come down to us in an authentic and unmutilated form.
Houghton Grannom have not long been known to me, and it is only now that, by the decease of his father, Lord Whitchurch, and the extinction of his noble family, I am permitted to divulge the facts. That the true tale of my unhappy friend will touch different chords in different breasts, I am well aware. The sportsman, I think, will hesitate to approve him; the fair, I hope, will absolve.
"She is all that you say, Mrs. Houghton." Lord George also was displeased, more thoroughly displeased than had been his wife. But he did not know how to show his displeasure; and though he felt it, he still felt, also, the old influence of the woman's beauty. "I am so delighted to have heard that you have got a house in Munster Court. I hope that Lady George and I may be fast friends.
To catch these the colored skipper of the captain's boat took the helm and tacked, presenting a broad surface of sail to their force. Houghton tacked also in the same direction, but with his eye on the westward water, and his hand on the rope which would bring down his sail with a run. He speedily had need of this caution.
It was from Henry Houghton, and it was to the effect that if any "unexpected expenses" came along, and Maurice felt strapped because of the cessation of Edith's board, he must let Mr. Houghton know; then a suggestion as to realizing on certain securities. "That's considerate in him," Eleanor said; "but I don't know what 'unexpected expenses' we could have?" It was a chilly April day.
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