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Her life had ended in its prime; nay, not ended, for the completion had never come it was to be a work unfinished till its close. Poor Arthur Brunwalde! A few more silent stitches, and then the work slipped from Theo's fingers into her lap, and she lifted her big, inconsistent eyes again. "Pam," she said, "were you ever at Lady Throckmorton's?" A faint color showed itself on Pamela's faded face.
He was perfectly sober now, and drove them safely to Worcester, where they soon found themselves in Theo's handsome rooms. Her wrappings removed and herself snugly ensconced in a velvet-cushioned chair, Madam Conway asked the young bride how long before Mrs. Douglas, senior, would probably arrive.
Longstaffe ruefully, but perhaps his judgment did not lean to Theo's side. "And why should not they live at the Warren?" she asked. "It is not a fine house, but it is a good house, and with the improvements Theo is making " "My dear lady, to me the Warren is a delightful little place, or at least it could be made delightful. But Markland Markland is a very different matter.
It struck Chatty with a little surprise to be talked to as if she had a stud at her command. Should she tell him that this was a mistake; that there were only two horses beside Theo's, and that Minnie and she had once had a pony between them which was very different from hunting, or having nerve to ride in the Row?
Upon the white velvet lining lay a pretty set of jewels sapphires, rarely pellucid; then clear pendants sparkling like drops of deep sea-water frozen into coruscant solidity. "They were one of Mr. Brunwalde's bridal gifts to me," she said, scarcely heeding Theo's low cry of admiration. "I should have worn them upon my wedding-day.
"Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door, The beloved, the true-hearted Come to visit me once more." Compare that simple strain, you lover of Theophile Gautier, with Theo's own "Chateau de Souvenir" in "Emaux et Camees," and confess the truth, which poet brings the break into the reader's voice?
"I hope Theo will never despise the sympathy of his own people, but a friend of your own choosing is a great help," said Mrs. Warrender. Yet she was uneasy. She did not think young Cavendish's sympathy could be on account of Theo's late bereavement, and what trouble could the boy have that he confided to Cavendish, and did not mention to his mother?
Herrick was very nice, and a great acquisition, and she was quite sure they would soon be good friends;" and as Elizabeth always meant what she said, Dinah felt tolerably satisfied with this verdict. "And now let me hear about Mr. Carlyon, Betty," she observed cheerfully. "I do hope his holiday was not spoiled by Theo's shiftless ways."
She hoped George would have a care, and not frequent the greenroom too much. George smiled, and said he had a preventive against all greenroom temptations, of which he was not in the least afraid; and as he spoke he looked in Theo's face, as if in those eyes lay the amulet which was to preserve him from all danger. "Why should he be afraid, mamma?" asks the maiden simply.
"Does he?" he returned, as quietly as possible, and then his glance meeting Theo's, she broke into a little burst of horror-stricken self-reproach. "Oh, dear!" she exclaimed. "I oughtn't to have said that, ought I? I forgot how rude it would sound; but, indeed, I only meant that Sabre was so slow and heavy, and and so indifferent to people, somehow.
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