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'I could not believe that you could behave in such a disgraceful manner! All the other tormentors rushed away headlong, except Stebbing, who, in some compunction, said 'I beg your pardon, Miss Merrifield, I had no notion it was you. 'You are making it no better, said Gillian. 'The gentlemen I am used to know how to behave properly to any woman or girl.
Perhaps Fergus could have told, if he had paid the slightest attention to such a trifle, how anxiously Alexis inquired when Miss Gillian was expected to return. Moreover, he might have told that his other model, Stebbing, pronounced old Dick White a beast and a screw, with whom his brother Frank was not going to stop.
Stebbing had uttered a note of warning, knowing how liable these promontories were to break away in the end of winter, and happily Lord Rotherwood had turned and made a step or two back, when the rock began to give way under his feet, so that, being a slight and active man, a spring and bound forward had actually carried him safely to the firm ground, and the others, who had started back in self-preservation, then in horror, fully believing him borne down to destruction, saw him the next instant lying on his face on the path before them.
'That's not all' said Maura, looking significant, and an interro- gative sound sufficed to bring out -'It is because of Mr. Frank. 'Mr. Frank Stebbing? 'Yes. He was always after her, and would walk home with her after the practices, though Alexis was always there.
She does justice to her classical extraction, and is modest and ladylike besides. Mrs. Stebbing is spiteful! I wonder whether it is jealousy. She calls her artful and designing, which sounds to me very much as if Master Frank might admire the damsel. I have a great mind to have the two girls to tea, and see what they are made of. 'We had much better wait till we hear from Lily.
Stebbing saw her visitors depart. 'And I hope her husband will give it to her well, said Mr. White, as they left the house. They looked in at Beechcroft Cottage with the tidings. 'All safe, I see! cried Miss Jane. 'Is the money found? 'No; Mrs. Stebbing burnt it, under the impression that it was a love- letter, drily said Sir Jasper.
It is only the spirit of the age, and, after all, this deponent saith not which was the dish and which was the spoon. Have the children made any other acquaintances, I wonder? And how did George Stebbing comport himself in the omnibus? I was sorry to see him there; I don't trust that boy. 'I wonder they didn't send him in solitary grandeur in the brougham, said Miss Ada.
'Many a youth who gets into a scrape becomes an excellent soldier, even an officer, said Miss Mohun. 'Exactly so, said Mr. Stebbing. 'Those high-spirited lads are the better for discipline, and often turn out well under it. But their promotion is an awkward thing for their families, who have not been educated up to the mark.
Then when they went out walking, they would not hear of the sober Rockstone lane, but insisted on the esplanade, where they fell in with the redoubtable Stebbing, who chose to patronise instead of bullying 'little Merry' and took him off to the tide mark -to the agony of his sisters, when they heard the St. Andrew's bell.
'Or worse. Stebbing talked of examining the accounts, to see if there were any deficiency. 'That can be only for the sake of prejudicing Mr. White -they cannot really suspect him. 'If not, it was very good acting, and Stebbing appears to me just the man to suspect a parson's pet, and a lady's -as he called this unlucky fellow. 'Ask any of the workmen -ask Mr. Flight.
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