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"There," Acton answered, "you must judge just now by contraries. There is more than there looks to be. I expect that combination one of these days; but that is not what I meant." "Well," said the Baroness, "I never guess my own lovers; so I can't guess other people's." Acton gave a loud laugh, and he was about to add a rejoinder when Mr. Wentworth approached his niece.
His master had arranged for him, he said, what he had long wished for, though it seemed to all the household that old Niccolo had always rejected any proposal of the sort. He was to have a pension, and go to live with a niece of his who was married in Rome. It was odd that none of his fellow-servants had ever heard anything of any such niece.
"She said she said," and Dorothy hesitated, while the warm blood coursed to her pale cheeks "she said everybody knew Tom Scott was in in love with me!" Mrs. White simply stared at her niece. Then she shook her head ruefully, but she hardly knew what to say, for fear of further embarrassing Dorothy.
Gordon grabbed the latter's walking stick and went up that tunnel a good deal quicker than Bobby had come down it. And when he got to the surface he found his niece, laughing and crying at once, and almost smothered by the joyful embraces of a big Newfoundland dog! "A wolf indeed!" cried Mr. Gordon, but beating off the animal good-naturedly. "He must be a friend of yours, Betty."
'It is not everyone that I would give my dear Annie's child to, I can tell you, bishop. So that's the whole story, and a sadly common one it is. 'It does you great credit, Miss Whichello, said Dr Pendle, patting her hand; 'and I have the highest respect both for you and your niece. I am proud, my dear lady, that she should become my daughter.
Well, well, this is a pleasant surprise, to find a little niece in this fashion!" It was a pleasant surprise to Worth, too, who had thought herself all alone in the world and had felt her loneliness keenly. They had a wonderful evening, talking and questioning and explaining. Mr. Kirby declared that Worth must come and live with them. "We have no daughter," he said.
Miss Husted followed this glance with her eye and rather testily suggested to her niece that the bell was ringing and there was no one to answer it. Jenny, who was glad to get out alive, hurriedly made her escape. Poons, sighing deeply, went into the alcove and looked out of the window. Miss Husted sat down, looked around the room pathetically, then followed Poons's example and sighed.
A fleeting shadow of pain darkened the Cardinal's clear eyes. "Yes. But she sees very little of him, you know the strictness of Roman etiquette in such matters. She sees little and sometimes so I think knows less. However, I hope all will be well. But my niece is over sensitive, brilliantly endowed, and ambitious, at times I have fears for her future."
"You must know little Aggie the niece of the Duchess: I forget if you've met the Duchess, but you must know HER too there are so many things on which I'm sure she'll feel with you. Little Aggie's the one," she continued; "you'll delight in her; SHE ought to have been mamma's grandchild." "Dearest lady, how can you pretend or for a moment compare her ?" Mr. Cashmore broke in.
And there was the less scruple on Eutacie's account, because the Chevalier, knowing that the Duchess had a son and two grandsons, had conceived a great terror that she meant to give his niece to one of them; and this would be infinitely worse, both for the interests of the family and of their party, than even her reunion with the young Baron.
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