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She grew still more anxious when at the appointed hour Rosenthal's messenger rapped at the door and stood silently waiting, his presence voicing the purpose of his mission, and she heard her mistress say, without an attempt at explanation: "I am sorry, tell Mr. Mangan, but the Spanish mantilla is not finished. Some of the other pieces are ready, but you need not wait.
I shall pay her a visit myself after dinner. You will feel quite at home here in the library, Sir Everard," Mr. Mangan went on, throwing open the door of a very fine apartment on the seaward side of the house. "Grand view from these windows, especially since we've had a few of the trees cut down. I see that Parkins has set out the sherry.
Joker had, of his own initiative, soon turned aside from the high road into a grassy lane, and he moved along it in the relentless manner in which many horses will decline to stand still while Larry, deep in thought, allowed the reins to lie on the horse's neck while he lit a cigarette and tried to fix in his memory Father David's exact words. He thought he would talk to Dr. Mangan about it.
"I am going down to Scotland to-night," said he to Maurice, "and I have just got a telegram from Miss Cunyngham you may have heard of her from Mr. Moore?" "Oh, yes," Mangan said. "She wishes me to bring her the latest news." Well, he was told what there was to tell which was not much, amid all this dire uncertainty. He looked perplexed.
She found Nina stretched at full length on the sofa, her head buried in the cushion, sobbing as if her heart would break. Perhaps she was thinking of the approaching farewell. On the Tuesday about midday, according to her promise, Miss Burgoyne called and again preferred her request. And, short of a downright lie, Mangan saw no way of refusing her.
I think the 'Highland Schottische' is the best of any for children who haven't learned dancing; they can all jump about somehow and the music is inspiriting. The vicar's daughters are coming to hammer at the piano. Oh, Mr. Mangan," she continued, still appealing to him, "do you think you could tell them a thrilling folk-story? wouldn't that be better?"
And then he added, "I suppose he gets too much of that petting; he is kept in such a turmoil of gayety that its evil effects have no time to sink into him. He is too busy as he said this morning about marrying." "What was that, Mr. Mangan?" she asked. "He said he was too busy to think of getting married." "Oh, indeed?" she said, with her eyes directed towards the ground.
"I won't rob Francie," said Lionel, with a little moan of weariness or pain. "You can't rob her of what she hasn't got," Mangan said, promptly. "I know this, that if Francie knew you were in these straits and worrying about it, she would instantly come up and offer you her own little money which is not a very large fortune, as I understand; and I also know that you would refuse it."
The sick man murmured something unintelligible in reply, and then lay still. Now Maurice Mangan had spoken of his dawdling about this house; but the fact was that he had his hands full from morning till night. The mere correspondence he had to answer was considerable.
For the former of these gentlemen, whose acquaintance with the Mangan family was now of long, if of intermittent, familiarity, these visits afforded a less thrilling emotion than they held for the latter, who found himself honoured and welcomed in a degree to which he was quite unaccustomed at home. Larry was not quite sure that he approved of this blaze of social success for his young cousin.
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