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She will suspect me now, instead of you; and if, as I guess, she send a spy after us, when we part company he will follow me, and you shall be quit of him." The mercer glanced back, as though to see if any one were following. "Well, perchance you say well," he answered. "There is none behind, methinks. So now to rejoin Father Eloy." Norman Hylton had not followed the packmen beyond the gate.
A wild bird was Marguerite of Flanders, in whose veins ran the blood of those untamed sea-eagles, the Vikings of Denmark; and though bars and wires might keep her in the cage, to make her content with it was beyond their power. So thought Norman Hylton, looking up at the white figure visible behind the bars which crossed the casement of the captive's chamber. He knew little of her beyond her name.
She was only just in time, for George had risen and was evidently on the point of leaving. 'George, she exclaimed, panting after her rapid flight, 'I I came to tell you 'My dear Ella, interrupted Mrs. Hylton, 'the kindest thing you can do for George now is to let him go without any more explanations. Ella stopped; again her mind became a blank.
The announcement that Ella Hylton had accepted George Chapman provoked the customary sensation and surprise in their respective sets, and perhaps with rather more justification than usual. Miss Hylton had undeniable beauty of a spiritual and rather exalté type, and was generally understood to be highly cultivated.
Yet as late as 1800 we find Justice Samuel Chase of Maryland, who had succeeded Blair in 1795, expressing skepticism as to the right of the Court to disallow acts of Congress on the ground of their unconstitutionality, though at the same time admitting that the prevailing opinion among bench and bar supported the claim. * 2 Dallas, 419. Ware vs. Hylton, 3 ib., 199. * See 2 Dallas, 409. Hylton vs.
Hylton made this inquiry sharply, but not as if such a circumstance would be altogether displeasing to her. 'Oh, no; only she hasn't seen him for so long, you know. Perhaps, when she comes to look at him with fresh eyes, she'll notice things more. Ah, here is George, just getting out of a hansom so he has played truant for once!
"I can absolutely assure you," I cried hotly, "that by no remote possibility can there be anything else between Lady Auriol Dayne and Petit Patou." He thrust out both his hands and fervently grasped the one I instinctively put forward. "Thank you, thank you, my dear Hylton. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Au revoir. I think we said ten o'clock." He marched away briskly.
"But how, Master Hylton, if she carried her pocket full of nobles?" "Ah, then it were other matter. I would stand to it gladly if so were." "Well, for how much look you? Amphillis should bring you a portion of ten pound beside her wedding gear, and an horse." "Say you so? Methinks we were made, then, could we win into some great house to serve the lord and lady thereof."
'Of course, observed the latter young lady, 'it's always so hard to hit upon another person's taste exactly especially in furnishing. 'Impossible, I should have thought, from Mrs. Hylton. 'I hope Ella is of a different opinion what do you say, dearest? 'Oh, cried Ella hastily, with splendid mendacity, 'I I liked it all very much, and and it was so much too kind of you and Carrie.
But, for a girl brought up as Ella Hylton had been, in an artistic milieu, her eye insensibly trained to love all that was beautiful in colour and form, to be almost morbidly sensitive to ugliness and vulgarity it was a very real and bitter struggle, a hard-won victory to come to such a decision as she formed.
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