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This, however, Aubrey took upon himself; and at this promise Evelyn felt as the slave may feel when the chain is stricken off. At breakfast, Mr. Aubrey communicated to the Mertons Evelyn's intention to return with him to Brook-Green on the following day. Lord Vargrave started, bit his lip, but said nothing. Not so silent was Mr. Merton. "Return with you! my dear Mr.
Why, certainly; established in the land, and among its tip-top people. The Colonel finds his health benefited by the climate, and he has managed to get some appointment which keeps him among us. He has Boston relatives, moreover, and I believe is fishing up some claims to property in that quarter. The Mertons here, indeed! what would New York be without the Mertons!"
They embraced just twenty-seven weeks, between the earliest and the latest date; and there were nine-and-twenty letters, two having been sent by private conveyances; her father's, most probably, he occasionally making the journey by land; yet no one of them contained the slightest allusion to her brother, or to either of the Mertons.
Immediately after the Mertons and their domestics, of whom there were a man and a woman, embarked, I took leave of them on the beach, and, either my observation, or my vanity, induced me to think Emily got into the boat with reluctance. Many good wishes were exchanged, and the Major called out to us, "we shall meet again, gentlemen there has been a Providence in our previous intercourse.
It is true that, when in parliament some years before, the politics of Maltravers had differed from those of Lord Raby and his set. But Maltravers had of late taken no share in politics, had uttered no political opinions, was intimate with the electioneering Mertons, was supposed to be a discontented man, and politicians believe in no discontent that is not political.
He now bitterly regretted the vow he had made, never to visit the Mertons again unless they sent for him. "They have forgotten me altogether," said he bitterly. "Well, the best thing I can do is to forget them." Now, Susan had forgotten him; she was absorbed in her own grief; but Merton was laboring under a fit of rheumatism, and this was the reason why Meadows and he did not meet.
For my part, I had quite as much reason to rejoice at the chance which threw me in the way of the Mertons, as they had. If I was instrumental in saving their lives, as was undeniably the case, they taught me more of the world, in the ordinary social sense of the phrase, than I had learned in all my previous life.
The Mertons threw this out on the trash basket and I brought it home. I guess Daddy can mend it." Bobby shouted with laughter. "That's the old piece they used to beat rugs with," he said positively, "Nobody could mend that." "Come see the robin I found," suggested Twaddles. "It's getting dry on the shelf warmer. Perhaps we can keep him to play with." "That you can't," said Mother Blossom quickly.
They complain bitterly of your desertion, and say you were, at first, the enfant de la maison." "So you like the Mertons? The clergyman is sensible, but commonplace." "A very agreeable man, despite your cynical definition, and plays a very fair rubber. But Vargrave is a first-rate player." "Vargrave is there still?" "Yes, he breakfasts with us to-morrow, he invited himself." "Humph!"
He could not hide from himself why he was so welcome; and many a time as he rode home from the Mertons he resolved never to return there, but he took no more oaths; it had cost him so much to keep the last; and that befell which might have been expected, after a while, the pleasure of being near the woman he loved, of being distinguished by her and greeted with pleasure however slight, grew into a habit and a need.