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Keith said that he had heard it, and regretted it more than he could express. He had only waited, hoping that it might prove untrue, to write to him. "Yes, she has gone," added the old man, moodily. "She's gone off and married without sayin' a word to me or anybody. I didn't think she'd 'a' done it." Keith gasped with astonishment. A load appeared to be lifted from him. After all, she was married.
He had been deeply stirred, but he had preserved an unmoved appearance when he might have expressed some sympathy of tenderness which could not have been resented. Presently Ethel West crossed the room to where he was rather moodily standing. "I believe our car is waiting, and, as Edgar won't let me come to the station to-morrow, I must say good-by now," she told him.
Sir Tristram, sad and troubled, went apart, and rode into a forest, for now he knew that he had done himself an ill turn. The lady he loved and whom he wanted to wife for himself he had now promised to woo for another. As he rode moodily through the forest drive, a knight came swiftly riding on a great horse, its flanks flecked with the foam of its speed.
He tried to picture it in his mind: Kitty smiling or startled, perhaps Jeff masterful, triumphant, laughing. Ah God, it was the same kiss she had offered him, and he had run away! In the morning, there was a division between them, a barrier which could not be overcome. Creede lingered by the door a minute, awkwardly, and then rode away. Hardy scraped up the greasy dishes and washed them moodily.
After watching him walk away at a swinging pace, Soames returned moodily to the drawing-room, where Irene was putting away the music, and, moved by an uncontrollable spasm of curiosity, he asked: "Well, what do you think of 'The Buccaneer'?" He looked at the carpet while waiting for her answer, and he had to wait some time. "I don't know," she said at last. "Do you think he's good-looking?"
Then, to divert his mind, Vallancey, with that rash freedom that had made the whole of Somerset know him for a rebel, set himself to talk of the Protestant Duke and his right to the crown of England. He was still at his talk, Richard listening moodily what time he was slowly but surely befuddling himself, when Sir Rowland returning from Scoresby Hall came to bring the news of his lack of success.
"Are you so very displeased?" he inquired, reproachfully, adding quietly: "If that is the case, I beg your pardon. I shall never so trespass again;" and he dropped her hand and turned away, walking moodily to the window. "Gracious!
When on deck, his eyes were for ever wandering towards the companion hatch, and during his watch below, when not asleep, he would sit moodily on his chest, lost in gloomy reflection. But a fortnight passed, then three weeks, and still nothing happened. Land was sighted, the Straits of Gibraltar passed, and the end of the voyage was but a matter of days. And still the dreaded mandarin made no sign.
And he didn't take any pains to conceal the fact most army men don't. There's only one man in the world to them, and that's a soldier; and if you're not a soldier, you're nothing." He waved a hand as if dismissing himself from the universe, and sank moodily into his seat, while Creede looked him over in silence.
All the young Russian aristocrats who held commissions in the Imperial Guard, or high posts in the Government, spoke enthusiastically of the great Spanish beauty; and they envied Selivestroff. The count yearned moodily for the solitude of his castle, which held so many loving memories for him.
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