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For a quarter of an hour afterwards she wouldn't look at me, but this didn't prevent my asking her what had been the result, that afternoon in the Regent's Park, of her taking our friend to see Miss Anvoy. "Oh so charming!" she answered, brightening. "He said he recognised in her a nature he could absolutely trust." "Yes, but I'm speaking of the effect on herself." Mrs.
Mulville drove in for him at a discreet hour the earliest she could suppose him to have got up; and I learned that Miss Anvoy would also have come had she not been expecting a visit from Mr. Gravener. I was perfectly mindful that I was under bonds to see this young lady, and also that I had a letter to hand to her; but I took my time, I waited from day to day. I left Mrs.
That's what Sir Gregory calls it." I burst out laughing. "Delightful munificent Sir Gregory! It's a charming idea." "So Miss Anvoy thinks." "Has she a candidate for the Fund?" "Not that I know of and she's perfectly reasonable about it. But Lady Coxon has put the matter before her, and we've naturally had a lot of talk."
I saw he had immediately connected my enquiry with the talk we had had in the railway- carriage, and his promptitude showed that the ashes of his eagerness weren't yet cold. I told him there was something I felt I ought in candour to let him know I recognised the obligation his friendly confidence had laid on me. "You mean Miss Anvoy has talked to you? She has told me so herself," he said.
It was precisely with his entrance that I ceased to be vividly conscious of him. I saw that the crystal, as I had called it, had begun to swing, and I had need of my immediate attention for Miss Anvoy. Even when I was told afterwards that he had, as we might have said to-day, broken the record, the manner in which that attention had been rewarded relieved me of a sense of loss.
Anvoy has scarcely gone bankrupt or whatever he has done on purpose. Very likely they won't be able to keep it up, but there it was, and it was a very beautiful impulse." "You say Saltram was very fine?" "Beyond everything. He surprised even me." "And I know what YOU'VE enjoyed." After a moment I added: "Had he peradventure caught a glimpse of the money in the table-drawer?"
Anvoy suddenly began to totter, and now he seems quite on his back. I'm afraid he's really in for some big reverse. Lady Coxon's worse again, awfully upset by the news from America, and she sends me word that she MUST have Ruth. How can I supply her with Ruth? I haven't got Ruth myself!" "Surely you haven't lost her?" I returned. "She's everything to her wretched father.
I only wondered if Ruth Anvoy talked over the idea of The Coxon Fund with Lady Maddock, and also somewhat why I didn't hear from Wimbledon. I had a reproachful note about something or other from Mrs. Saltram, but it contained no mention of Lady Coxon's niece, on whom her eyes had been much less fixed since the recent untoward events.
"Doesn't it appear that of late he has been particularly horrid?" "His fluctuations don't matter", I returned, "for at night all cats are grey. You saw the shade of this one the night we waited for him together. What will you have? He has no dignity." Miss Anvoy, who had been introducing with her American distinctness, looked encouragingly round at some of the combinations she had risked.
"Such good friends that you'll again become prospective husband and wife if the obstacle in your path be removed?" "Removed?" he anxiously repeated. "If I send Miss Anvoy the letter I speak of she may give up her idea." "Then for God's sake send it!" "I'll do so if you're ready to assure me that her sacrifice would now presumably bring about your marriage."
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