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The promise of Raeburn's political position struck her quick mind with a curious surprise. She could not explain it as she had so often tacitly explained his place in Brookshire by the mere accidents of birth. After all, aristocratic as we still are, no party can now afford to choose its men by any other criterion than personal profitableness.
Let me get you another," after which the subject would be dropped, and the speakers would return to the ball room to improve upon Raeburn's life, which they presumed so severely to criticize, by a trois temps enlivened by a broad flirtation. Here and there a gleam of good was effected inasmuch as some of the excessively narrow began to see what narrowness leads to. Mr.
The ticking of a large clock somewhere the short, screaming note of Miss Raeburn's parrot in one of the ground-floor rooms these sounds and the beating of her own heart seemed to have the vast house to themselves. No! that was a door opening Aldous coming to fetch her. She drew a childish breath of comfort. He sprang up the stairs, two or three steps at a time, as he saw her coming.
Outside the amount settled upon her, the figures of Aldous Raeburn's present income, irrespective of the inheritance which would come to him on his grandfather's death, were a good deal beyond what even Mr. Boyce upon whom the daily spectacle of the Maxwell wealth exercised a certain angering effect had supposed. Mrs.
Boyce had been formally asked in Miss Raeburn's best hand to the Court ball, but he had at once snappishly announced his intention of staying at home. Marcella sometimes looked back with astonishment to his eagerness for social notice when they first came to Mellor.
Me don't know!" cried Dolly, bursting into tears again, and hiding her face on Raeburn's coat. "Father! Father, Dolly wants father." "We will come and look for him," said Erica, "but you must stop crying, and you know your father will be sure to come and look for you." At this the little one checked her tears, and looked up as if expecting to see him close by.
Erica laughed for the study was indeed in a state of chaos. The writing table was a sea of papers, periodicals, proofs, and manuscripts, upon which there floated with much difficulty Raeburn's writing desk and the book he was reading, some slight depression in the surrounding mass of papers showing where his elbows had been. "About equal to Teufelsdroch's room, isn't it?" he said, smiling.
Marcella went up to the fire and, kneeling before it, put the logs with which it was piled together. But she could not contain herself for long. "Will you go to the Court, mamma?" she asked quickly, without turning round. There was a pause. Then Mrs. Boyce said drily "Miss Raeburn's proceedings are a little unexpected.
Oh! let her marry Wharton, or any one else, so long as it were made impossible for her to bruise and exhaust her young bloom amid such scenes such gross physical abominations. Amazing! how meanly, passionately timorous the man of Raeburn's type can be for the woman! He himself may be morally "ever a fighter," and feel the glow, the stern joy of the fight.
You are ready to take your oath to it that Colonel Lyon had no idea he was sitting for his picture, and thought of nothing in the world besides his own occupation of the moment. Although the collection did not embrace, I understand, nearly the whole of Raeburn's works, it was too large not to contain some that were indifferent, whether as works of art or as portraits.
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