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All his comrades were astonished at him, and a Scotch Corporal was heard to remark that it was "na canny the Captain was fey." The Ardayres were saved! The family would carry on! Fondest love welled up in his heart for Amaryllis.
"You see," he went on, "if you represent anything you must never injure it; you must destroy yourself if necessary in its service. You represent an ideal, the ideal of the perfect wife of the Ardayres. You must fulfil this role. I represent a leader of certain thought in my country. My soul is given to this I must only indulge in through which nothing demagnetising can pass.
It was a wonderful place of green silk and chestnut wainscoting, and all the walls of its hundred feet of length were hung with canvases of value portraits principally of those Ardayres who had gone on. Face after face looked down on Amaryllis of the same type as John's and her own the brown hair and eyes of grey or blue.
The late September sun was sinking and gilding the windows of the noble house, and she turned and looked back at it when she was far across the lake. And the whole of her spirit rose in thankfulness to God, while her soul sang a glad magnificat. She, too, might hand on this great and splendid inheritance! She, too, would be the mother of Ardayres! And now to write to John!
"You see," he went on, "if you represent anything you must never injure it; you must destroy yourself if necessary in its service. You represent an ideal, the ideal of the perfect wife of the Ardayres. You must fulfil this role. I represent a leader of certain thought in my country. My soul is given to this I must only indulge in that over which I am master.
No this should never go to the bastard Ferdinand, whose life in Constantinople was a disgrace. This record of fine living and achievement of worthy Ardayres should remain the glory of the true blood.
Must the English always beat him? He remembered his hatred of Denzil while at Eton, and the dog's life he had often led there. Well, he would hit back with an adder's sting when the chance came to him. He would like to see both Ardayres ruined and England herself in the dust, numbed and conquered.
The picture of the dinner at the Carlton then came back to her, and the face of Denzil across the table, so like, and yet so unlike John! If Denzil had a wife would he be cold to her? Was it in the nature of all Ardayres?
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