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Cynical he may be; idle, perhaps most men of fashion are but Lord Ravenel is not the least like his father is he, Mr. Halifax?" "I have not seen Lord Ravenel for many years."
The affair with McDermott rankled, however, and it was with drawn brows and tightened lips that he answered a telephone call a call which changed both of the plans which he had so carefully arranged. His mother's doctor at Bar Harbor had rung him up to say Mrs. Ravenel was seriously ill and wanted him to come to her at once.
Ravenel, is gett'n' a sad facility fo' recantin'. I don't say it's not sincere, sir least of all ow Courier since it's come into the hands of you an' President Garnet!" "Garnet! Oh, gracious!" laughed Jeff-Jack. "Sincere Judge, if you won't say anything about sincerity, I'll tell you what I'd like to do for John, sir.
Truly, Frank, she came in so quietly that she made every one else seem to enter on horseback. Coming directly toward me, she said: "Perhaps you do not remember me, Mrs. Ravenel! I am Katrine Dulany. My father was overseer of your plantation, in North Carolina, for nearly three years." It was as though Mary Queen of Scots had come to life and asked me if I remembered when she was my parlor-maid!
As for the study with Josef, it will be good for her, but the idea of Katrine on the stage is an absurdity. I've a cousin in Paris the Countess de Nemours, a very great lady, though I say it as shouldn't," he said, with a laugh, "whom I am hoping to interest in the little girl. She's no longer young. By-the-way, perhaps you've met her! Her miniature hangs in the hail of Ravenel House."
She lived in Suez, and when Ravenel brought this message to her from whom marriage had torn all her daughters and death her only son she accepted his offer, based on a generous price, to take her son's room as her sole boarder and lodger. Thus, without further effort, he became the stay of her home and the heir of her simple affections. General Halliday was a distant cousin of Mrs. Garnet.
Immediately after there came a silence, and then, from the turn in the stairs, he heard the same voice, with a touch of insolence, speaking to the servant to whom he had given the card: "Say to Mr. Ravenel that Mademoiselle Dulany regrets that it is impossible for her to see him." And then, with a dramatic note, "Tell him," the Irishman added, "she leaves within an hour to sing before the Queen."
Hence, when it became the duty of the band to which he belonged to select a chief, they passed over the old soldiers, Espérandieu, Raslet, Catinat, and Ravenel, and pitched upon the young baker lad of Ribaute, not because he could fight, but because he could preach; and the old soldiers cheerfully submitted themselves to his leadership.
And a strange thing occurred but a few minutes after this interview, when Frank made his daily visit to the stables. One of the head grooms explained a horse's lameness to him as due to a bad place in the road near the north gate which, he finished, would probably not be mended until Mr. Dulany was over "his coming attack." "Is he drinking again?" Ravenel asked.
"There's more room in here," she insisted with sweet buoyancy. Hamlet Graves rose. "Here, Cousin Daphne!" His brother Lazarus stood up with him. "Here, John, your maw'll feel better if you're a-sett'n' by her." But she urged the seat, with coy temerity, upon Mr. Ravenel. "How well she looks in mourning," remarked two Blackland County ladies. "Yes, she's pretty yet; what a lovely smile."
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