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Twice she had nearly blurted out the secret, and it is highly probable that her refusal to adopt Wenna's suggestion would have led her sister to suspect something had not Wenna herself by accident kicked against the missing brooch. As it was, the time lost by this misadventure was grievous to Mabyn, who now insisted on leading the way, and went along through the bushes at a rattling pace.
I am going to have a try at the Civil Service examinations for first commissions, you know. I shall only come back to Eglosilyan for a day now and again at long intervals. You have promised to write to me, Mabyn. Well, I'll send you my address." She looked at him keenly as she offered him her hand. "I wouldn't be downhearted if I were you," she said. "Very odd things sometimes happen."
Natalie and Garth looked at each other, scarcely knowing how to act. But presently Mabyn lifted his head again; and, spying his pipe where it had fallen, picked it up, and attentively knocked out what remained of the ashes in the bowl. Natalie thought she might venture to address him again. "I have something important to tell you," she began.
In the centre, two or three cottonwood trees elevated their heads above the willows. Later, he asked Natalie casually: "Could Mabyn swim, when you knew him, do you remember?" "He could not," she said instantly. "In fact he had a childish horror of the water." Garth turned his head to hide his satisfaction; and his plan began to take shape.
She had determined to be calm, whereas all the calmness had been on his side, and she had been led into speaking in a manner which a discreet and well-bred young lady would have shrunk from in horror. Mabyn sat still and sobbed, partly in anger and partly in disappointment: she dared not even go to tell her sister. But Mr.
The girl was startled, bewildered, but not frightened; for in a second he had taken her by the hand, and then she heard him say to her, in an anxious, low, imploring voice, "Wenna, my darling, don't be alarmed. See here: I have got everything ready to take you away; and Mabyn is coming with us; and you know I love you so that I can't bear the notion of your falling into that man's hands.
"But what else have we been speaking about? Or rather, I suppose we did assume it. Well, the more I think over it, Mabyn, the more I am maddened by all these obstacles, and by the notion of all the things that may happen. That's the bad part of my going away. How can I tell what may happen? He might come back and insist on her marrying him right off." "Mr.
"I am very glad to hear that," Wenna said in a low voice. Trelyon did come to the Hall for a few days, but he kept away from the village, and was seen by no one of the Rosewarnes. But on the Christmas morning, Mabyn Rosewarne, being early about, was told that Mrs. Trelyon's groom wished to see her, and, going down, she found the man, with a basket before him. "Please, miss, Mr.
There is nothing she wouldn't do for her sister; and her sister thinks there's nobody in the world like Mabyn. So you see " He stopped in the middle of this sentence. "Grandmother," he said, almost in a whisper, "here she is coming along the road." "Miss Rosewarne?" "Yes: shall I introduce you?" "If you like."
But then don't you see, Mabyn? Mr. Roscorla is just a little peculiar in some ways " "Yes, certainly." " and he likes to have a definite reason for what you do. If I were to tell him of the repugnance I have to the notion of getting married just now, he would call it mere sentiment, and try to argue me out of it: then we should have a quarrel.
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