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I have all else with me." We had these, and I told him so. "Then you mean to lie at Hare Street to-night, sir?" I said. "I had hoped to do so," he said. "I am come from Lincolnshire; and I was recommended to Mr. Jermyn's if I could not get so far as Standon; and I cannot, for my horse is lame."
"A modesty quite unfashionable," exclaimed Lady Merivale, whose beautiful face had flushed ever so slightly at the mention of Adrien's name. "Yes," admitted Paxhorn. "Men have to proclaim their gifts very loudly in the market-place, before they sell their wares nowadays." "Oh, Adrien is a veritable Crichton," put in Lord Standon.
I heard him say so." "He has lost heavily, I'm afraid," the girl said in a low voice. "Immensely," replied Lord Standon, who himself had, lost more than he could afford indeed, there was little doubt that this race would almost prove his ruin; but, nevertheless, his inordinate good humour and optimistic nature triumphed above every other consideration.
Wilson." The afternoon following the race the Castle guests returned to town, Lord Standon amongst them, and as that light-hearted gentleman departed without making any formal proposal for the hand of his young ward, Lord Barminster was greatly puzzled.
The stone upon which the above inscription was carved, stands, or stood recently, near Collier's End, in the parish of Standon, Hertfordshire; and it will possibly afford the English reader a more accurate idea of the feelings with which the world hailed the discovery of the balloon than any incident or illustration drawn from the annals of a foreign country.
He turned, as if to go; and Leroy made no attempt to restrain him. "I have to congratulate you, I suppose, on your engagement?" he said coldly, when the young man had almost reached the door. Lord Standon turned sharply, and stared at him. He grasped the situation at once, but was still greatly puzzled, for he knew Leroy was but slightly acquainted with Lady Muriel Branton.
"Oh, yes," she replied, "He is exercised in the paddock every morning, and is in fine form." Adrien smiled. "Poor 'King Cole'; he'll be worth his weight in gold if he wins to-morrow! What about the other horses, Stan; are they down?" "Yes," replied Lord Standon; "my man saw some of them at the station; but no sign of the Yorkshire chestnut."
Wasn't it Vermont who was so sure of his winning the race? Yet his Majesty did not win, did he?" "No, I know that," said Standon, with a rueful smile, as he thought of his added debts. "That was not Vermont's lack of judgment," put in Paxhorn, who, for private reasons of his own, always stood up for that gentleman.
Vermont," said Lord Standon coldly, for even he, the least suspicious of men, seemed to detect the false sorrow in the speaker's voice. Lady Constance looked at him gratefully; and Lord Standon was encouraged thereby to proceed: "Adrien is generous to a fault; and if in this case it has had disastrous results, it is usually a fault which few imitate."
Charles Standon into the interior of Africa. What was he going to do there? She lamented him for two days without ceasing, until Valentine was tired of her many conjectures. He was missed in the brilliant salons of Florence, but by none so much as by Valentine Charteris. What the pretty, coquettish countess had said was true. After making many plans and forming many resolutions, Ronald met Mr.
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