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"Doubtless that is entirely true," said Miss Allonby, "but what about Frank?" Ormskirk shrugged his shoulders and began to laugh. "You are an incomparable actress, you rogue you. But let us be candid, for all that, since as it happens Lord Humphrey is not the only person in my employ.
"Well, I do not remember anything of the sort," Lady Allonby stated; and she flushed. "You wore a blue gown," he said. "Indeed?" said she. "And " "La, if I did," said Lady Allonby, "I have quite forgotten it, and it is now your manifest duty to do likewise." "Never in all these years," said Mr. Erwyn, sighing, "have I been able to forget it."
So Florian married Sylvie, and made her, they relate, a fair husband, as husbands go. And children came to them, and then old age, and, lastly, that which comes to all. Which reminds me that it was an uncomfortable number of years ago, in an out-of-the-way corner of the library at Allonby Shaw, that I first came upon Les Aventures d'Adhelmar de Nointel.
Allonby would try to give them a Bible lesson; very often they would tell him a Bible story. 'I want to bring you up as your mother would have done, he said to True one day. 'We'll bring ourselves along, dad, she responded cheerfully; 'we're trying hard to be good, and we pray to God to manage us when we can't remember in time.
I love you with completeness: and give me leave to assure you, madam, with a freedom which I think permissible on so serious an occasion that, even as beautiful as you are, I could never be contented with your person without your heart." She sat with eyes downcast, all one blush. Miss Dorothy Allonby was in the bloom of nineteen, and shone with every charm peculiar to her sex.
"Dear child, am I not worthy of trust?" There was a microscopic pause. "I am going to the Pantiles this afternoon," declared Miss Allonby, at length, "to feed the swans." "Ah," said Mr. Erwyn, and with comprehension; "surely, he, too, is rather tardy." "Oh," said she, "then you know?" "I know," he announced, "that there is a tasteful and secluded summer-house near the Fountain of Neptune."
He was very tall, and his voice was very gruff. 'Are you Robert Stuart Allonby? I have come to take him away. In an instant, with outstretched arms, Bobby sprang forward, 'Father! I'm ready!
He was honestly sorry to part with her; but his father filled his heart, and, childlike, the new scenes and life around him were entirely engrossing him. When Nurse had gone he was called to his father, who was sitting with his stepmother. True was still playing in the garden. 'I feel I must make acquaintance with my small son, Mr. Allonby said, perching him on his knee.
'I belongs to you, and you belongs to me, he said, with infinite satisfaction in his tone, and Mr. Allonby answered, with a little embarrassed laugh: 'And finding's keeping, my little boy. We'll hold together for the present, at any rate. Of course Lady Isobel's letter had to be answered, and the wonderful news told of Bobby's change of home.
Men were rushing frantically back to get it. 'Father! Father! Don't sink! Oh, do catch hold of Nobbles! 'Hi, you little chap, you'll be going in yourself! Come back! Give me your stick! Here, Allonby, catch hold! Mr. Allonby's head appeared above the surface again, and in an instant the man behind Bobby had placed Nobbles across the hole in the ice. Exhausted as he was, Mr.
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