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But the cowman's forehead was furrowed with unrelieved suspense. "Oh, Mr. Blake!" exclaimed Isobel. "Don't tell us your report is unfavorable." "Afraid I can't say, as yet," he replied. "We've covered the ground pretty thoroughly for miles along High Mesa and Deep Cañon.
Isobel Macruadh was one of those rare women who preserve in years the influence gained in youth; and the thing that lay at the root of the fact was her justice. For though her highland temper would occasionally burst out in hot flame, everyone knew that if she were in the wrong, she would see it and say it before any one else would tell her of it.
"Well, I think it was very kind of her thinking of it," Isobel said, "and I don't think it is nice of you, Doctor, to say that it was an evident relief to her when she found I had someone else to take care of me. Why should it have been a relief?"
So he ran to obtain help from the few he could trust, from the tiny company of white men he had left in the saloon; he met them, a forlorn procession, coming up to the bridge. The all-powerful instinct of self-preservation, aided, no doubt, by the stinging, drenching showers of spray, had gone far towards reanimating Isobel and her maid, while Mrs.
"I have had a very strange letter from that odd boy, Godfrey," he said, "which makes me want to borrow a book. Here it is, perhaps you will read it, as it will save time and explanation." "I don't want to read Godfrey's letters," said Isobel, stiffly. "It will save time," repeated Mr. Knight, thrusting it towards her. Then, being overcome by curiosity, she read it.
He liked their super-feminine delicacies of speech and motion, and the flattering interest they began to take in all his affairs. Miss Isobel developed a palpitating concern for his spiritual welfare and invited him to go to church with her. She even introduced him to the minister with proud reference to his distinguished grandfather, and basked in the reflected glory.
As for Quin, he found, to his surprise, that he was enjoying his new quarters quite as much as he had the old ones. Madam was a never-ending source of amusement and interest to him, and Miss Isobel and Miss Enid soon had each her individual appeal. He liked the swish of their silk petticoats, and the play of their slim white hands about the coffee-tray.
Thenceforward Mr. Blake was careful not to maltreat his wife in Isobel's presence. He complained to her, however, of the child's conduct, which, he said, was due to her bringing up and encouragement, and Lady Jane in turn, scolded her in her gentle fashion for her "wicked words." Isobel listened, then asked, without attempting to defend herself, "Were not father's words to you wicked also, Mummy?
Alas for that conscientiousness of which she had once been proud! Was it the measure of her degradation she read on Rosalie's startled face Rosalie's face of stricken incredulity and amaze? But no; Rosalie's transfixed gaze was not on Emily Louise it passed her, to To where in the aisle beyond stood another Isobel.
Lady Gertrude had expressed her opinion with a conciseness that was entirely characteristic. "You made an unwise choice, my son. Nan has no sense of her future position as your wife." Isobel had been less blunt in her methods, but a corrosive acid had underlain her gentle speech. "I can't understand it, Roger. She she was fond of you, wasn't she?
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