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Of course he will see you, but before you speak about Maggie you must apologise for my presence; you must say that I am a very particular friend, and that you thought it better that the interview should take place in the presence of a witness." "I wish it were all over. I wouldn't do what I am doing for any one else, I can tell you, Frank." "Mr. Stracey is in the hotel, sir."
"I slept last night at the 'Grand' It seemed odd sleeping in the same house perhaps within a few doors of him. If you only knew how I love her, if I could only tell you, you would pity me. You ought to know what I feel the anxiety, the heart-ache. I know you have gone through it all." "Yes, I think I know what it is," Willy replied thoughtfully. "Mr. Stracey is staying here?"
As soon as they came on board we were able to have a few hasty words with those we knew, and their faces seem to pass in front of me as I write: Sir John Willoughby and Captain C. Villiers, both in the Royal Horse Guards, apparently nonchalant and without a care in the world; Colonel Harry White alas! dead and his brother Bobby, who were as fit as possible and as cheery as ever, but inclined to be mutinous with their unwilling gaolers; Major Stracey, Scots Guards, with his genial and courtly manners, apparently still dazed at finding himself a prisoner and amongst rebels; Mr.
"Ha! ha!" laughed Stracey, the old wit, picking his teeth, and speaking for the first time; "if you tell Barabel you have seen a handsome woman, he says, mysteriously frowning, 'Handsome, sir! has she travelled? answer me that!" "But have you seen Paulton's new equipage? Brown carriage, brown liveries, brown harness, brown horses, while Paulton and his wife sit within dressed in brown cap-a-pie.
I felt myself turn pale; I felt my knees trembling under me. Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy & Graham had stopped payment. "The circular has not been issued more than half an hour," continued my managing clerk. "I have just come from the bank, sir. The doors are shut; there is no doubt about it. Marsh & Company have stopped this morning." I hardly heard him; I hardly knew who was talking to me.
"Yes," I answered, dryly enough. "Do you bank with Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy & Graham?" "Why do you ask?" "Answer my question, and you will know." "Very well, I do bank with Marsh, Stracey, Fauntleroy & Graham and what then?" "Draw out every farthing of balance you have got before the bank closes at five to-day." I stared at him in speechless amazement.
"Ha! ha!" laughed Stracey, the old wit, picking his teeth, and speaking for the first time; "if you tell Barabel you have seen a handsome woman, he says, mysteriously frowning, 'Handsome, sir! has she travelled? answer me that!" "But have you seen Paulton's new equipage? Brown carriage, brown liveries, brown harness, brown horses, while Paulton and his wife sit within dressed in brown cap-a-pie.
"That's all very well for you, but I am a slow man, and am lost if I don't arrange beforehand." "Pretend not to see his hand, and apologise for my presence; he will then see that we mean business." "The waiting is the worst part." "Will you walk this way, sir?" said the page boy. "Mr. Stracey is not out of bed yet, but he said if you wouldn't mind, sir."
Brookes had in a certain measure approved of Willy's action in forbidding young Stracey the Manor House, and therefore of his, Frank Escott's, suit, but neither of these gains compensated him for the crowning loss of not being able to see his beloved, for although the Manor House was still theoretically open to him, practically it was closed.
I don't know his other name." "Stracey?" "I dare say. I mean the man you said you hated more than any man alive; I hate him, too." "You don't mean to say she is still thinking of that fellow. Has he come back?" "He was at the Manor House all day yesterday." "If she marries that fellow I'll never speak to her again, it will be dead cuts." "It is only natural that I should love Maggie.
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