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But Rosalie could see that he could not help hearing, nor could the country people who had been passengers by the train and who were collecting their belongings and getting into their traps. Lady Anstruthers was ignored and remained standing while the scene went on.
"I think that I had better present you with all the property costumes of Prince Djiddin and the 'Moonshee," laughed Halton. "We accept on the sole condition that you will make us a visit at Jitomir, and experience a Russian welcome," cried the Anstruthers in chorus. "The Russian bear has a gentle hug, when his fur is stroked the right way!"
His costume and general aspect seemed to indicate that he was of the class one addressed as "my man," though there was something a little odd about him. "Thank you. That wasn't Miss Vanderpoel's eldest sister in that carriage, was it?" "Miss Vanderpoel's " Mrs. Brent hesitated. "Do you mean Lady Anstruthers?" "I'd forgotten her name.
Lady Anstruthers, looking shy and awkward as she fingered an ornament on a small table, seemed singularly a part of her background. Her evening dress, slipping off her thin shoulders, was as faded and out of date as her carpet. It had once been delicately blue and gauzy, but its gauziness hung in crushed folds and its blue was almost grey.
"When I am driven to the wall," he answered, "I may not be fastidious as to nationality." Nigel Anstruthers' manner was not a bad one. He chose that tone of casual openness which, while it does not wholly commit itself, may be regarded as suggestive of the amiable half confidence of speeches made as "man to man."
As for Nigel Anstruthers he went on talking in his low-pitched, disgusted voice. "Surely he might count himself out of the running. There will be a good deal of running, my dear Betty. You fair Americans have learned that by this time.
She always said herself that she had no brains. But she had a heart." After the lapse of a few years there had been no further discussion of plans for visiting Stornham. Rosalie had become so remote as to appear almost unreachable. She had been presented at Court, she had had three children, the Dowager Lady Anstruthers had died.
The atmosphere which had surrounded her during the last three months had done much for Lady Anstruthers' nerves. She had the power to recover herself. Sir Nigel himself saw this when she spoke. "I was startled because I was not expecting to see you," she said. "I thought you were still on the Riviera. I hope you had a pleasant journey home."
Without warning the sudden rush of a thought, immense and strange, swept over her body and soul and possessed her so possessed her that it changed her pallor to white flame. It was actually Anstruthers who shrank back a shade because, for the moment, she looked so near unearthly. "I am not afraid of you," she said, in a clear, unshaken voice. "I am not afraid.
Corporation's box on a gala night at the Metropolitan, or in the Duchess of Thatshire's box at Covent Garden. But the strange fact of democracy is that instead of discouraging social desires it has multiplied them ten thousand fold. Every city in the land has its own Mrs. Anstruthers Leason or Mrs.
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