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"Elmsley's wife, to whom I spoke a few hurried words on leaving, is even now preparing for your temporary reception, and I have thought of an excuse to be given to your mother.
Because, in the estimation of Lady Verner, Lucy Tempest was less desirable in a social point of view than the Earl of Elmsley's daughter, and upon the latter lady had been fixed her hopes for Lionel. All that was past and gone. Lady Verner had seen the fallacy of sublunary hopes and projects.
On the glacis they discharged their guns and rifles, and seemed to have but one spirit with the allies to whom they appeared to have devoted themselves. Winnebeg, however, though long expected, had not yet returned, and nothing yet had been seen of Waunangee, since his departure on the day following the little incident which occurred in Elmsley's apartments.
Do you know that the men have already been paraded, and that when required for your guard, you were not to be found?" "The fatigues of the night, Captain Headley," returned the young officer, with some hesitation of manner; "the incessant watching surely there " "I knew he had not been out of the Fort. Courage, Maria! was audible to the men who were nearest to the speaker, from Elmsley's doorway.
This may have, in some degree, arisen from the fact of her having ever been childless herself. As Ronayne approached Elmsley's house on his return, a remarkably handsome and noble-looking Indian quite a youth was leaning against the frame of the door, and according to the simple habit of his race, indulging his curiosity by looking at, and admiring all that he beheld within.
"The horse we have isn't at all safe," she explained, "and I am quite nervous on the subject since my accident last summer." "Rose," demanded Helene, in a low aside, but with a tragic countenance, "you surely are not going to leave me?" The girl laughed as she accepted Mr. Elmsley's proffered assistance from one vehicle into the other.
Lady Mary Elmsley was rejected Lionel had married in direct defiance of everybody's advice and Lucy was open to offers. Open to offers, as Lady Verner supposed; but she was destined to find herself unpleasantly disappointed. One came forward with an offer to her. And that was no other than the Earl of Elmsley's son, Viscount Garle.
A strangely thrilling expression in her eyes as she looked at him was her only answer. "I would rather have that sort of rudeness from you, Jan," said she, "than the world's hollow politeness. There is so much of false " Mary Elmsley's sentence was never concluded. What was it that had broken in upon them?
But I may have a wife and children some time, Lucy." "So you may," said Lucy, filling up her tumbler from the jug of lemonade. "Please to go into the drawing-room now, or Lady Verner will be angry. Mary Elmsley's there, you know." She gave him a saucy glance from her soft bright eyes. Lionel laughed. "Who made you so wise about Mary Elmsley, young lady?"
After continuing some time thus, a prey to nervous anxiety, as much the result of Elmsley's long absence as of her former fears, the sound of the fifes and drums fell startlingly, she knew not wherefore, upon her ear and drew her to the door.
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