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Adrian looked in her face, as much as to say: Now are you capable of this piece of heroism? And it did seem hard to her that she should have to tell Richard she shrank from any trial.
The state sword and sheath, which Adrian handed to him unasked, were rejected. He needed no steel weapons to-day; the victory he sought must be won by his person. When the servant held the Venetian mirror before him, he was satisfied.
Adrian continuing to lecture on the excelling virtues of wise cookery, a thought struck her: Where, where had she tossed Mrs. Berry's book? "So that's all about the home-people?" said Richard. "All!" replied Adrian. "Or stay: you know Clare's going to be married? Not? Your Aunt Helen" "Oh, bother my Aunt Helen! What do you think she had the impertinence to write but never mind! Is it to Ralph?"
But I did not offer to embrase her, as she was at that moment poring out her tea. I hid my misery behind the morning paper, and there I beheld the fated vision. Had I felt any doubt as to the state of my afections it was settled then. My Heart leaped in my bosom. My face sufused. My hands trembled so that a piece of sausage slipped from my fork. Oh, Adrian, Adrian!
"To think," he said to himself after the door had closed behind the delighted and flattered Adrian, "to think that I can be the father of such a fool as that. Well, it bears out my theories about cross-breeding, and, after all, in this case a good-looking, gullible fool will be much more useful to me than a young man of sense.
A quarter of an hour later Adrian, cleaned and clothed, different indeed to look on from the torn and hunted fugitive, re-entered the sitting-room. As he came, clad in Ramiro's suit, Meg nudged her husband and whispered, "Like, ain't they?" "Like as two devils in hell," Simon answered critically, then added, "Your food is ready; come, Mynheer, and eat."
Trautchen opened the door and, even before crossing the threshold, Barbara exclaimed: "Is your master at home?" The reply was in the negative, as she too now expected. Adrian gave his message; Trautchen brought up the supper, but the conversation would not extend beyond "yes" and "no."
"She had the bearing of a princess; she must be a person of note!" "Adrian," and she grasped his arm tightly, "dost think, thou knowing the ways of men, Cedric could have some bright being here to keep him from the dumps, and when guests are present, hides her in some remoteness?" There was more in Constance' meaning than what she said.
She had seen it first when Adrian was pointing out to her how, were he a general, he would dispose his forces for the capture of Leyden, and from that moment her nature rose in arms against him.
We could dispatch messengers to Adrian, to inform him of our deviation from the original plan. She spoke with vivacity, and drew a picture after her own dear heart, of the pleasure we should bestow upon Lucy, and declared, if I went, she must accompany me, and that she should very much dislike to entrust the charge of rescuing them to others, who might fulfil it with coldness or inhumanity.
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