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Taking Ascott's latch-key she quitted the house and slipped out into the dark night, almost losing her way among the gloomy squares, where she met not a creature except the solitary policeman, plashing steadily along the wet pavement.
You needn't have seen me, whereas I was obliged " Evelyn guessed that he had been to the opera. "How good of him to have gone to hear me," she thought. She hated herself for having accepted Lady Ascott's invitation, and the desire to ask him what he thought of her voice seemed to her an intolerable selfishness. "What were you going to say, father?" "Nothing.... I'm glad you didn't come."
It was rather an elderly costume for a bridemaid; but she was determined to dress warmly, and not risk, in muslins and laces, the health which to her now was money, life nay, honor. For Ascott's creditor had been already paid: Miss Balquidder never let grass grow under her feet.
No more words were interchanged till they reached Gower street, when Miss Hilary observed, with evident surprise, what a handsome street it was. "I must have made some mistake. Still we will find out Mr. Ascott's number, and inquire." No, there was no mistake. Mr. Ascott Leaf had lodged there for three months, but had given up his rooms that very morning. "Where had he gone to?"
"A young man wanting to speak to master on particular business. "Let him send in his name." "He says you wouldn't know it, Sir." "Show him in, then. Probably a case of charity, as usual. Oh!" And Mr. Ascott's opinion was confirmed by the appearance of the shabby young man with the long beard, whom Elizabeth did not wonder he never recognized in the least.
They talked of Ascott, as being the most convenient mutual subject; and Miss Leaf expressed the gratitude which her nephew felt, and she earnestly hoped would ever show, toward his kind godfather. Mr. Ascott looked pleased. "Um yes, Ascott's not a bad fellow believe he means well: but weak, ma'am, I'm afraid he's weak. Knows nothing of business has no business habits whatever.
They had met in London.... He had been observed walking with her, and at Lady Ascott's lunch the conversation had suddenly turned on a tall girl with gold hair and an undulating walk. Pointed observations had been made.... Lady Lovedale had looked none too well pleased.
"It all comes to this, young man," he continued, after an uncomfortable pause, in which Hilary could have counted every beat of her heart, and even Ascott played with his wine glass in a nervous kind of way "you want money, and you think I'm sure to give it, because it wouldn't be pleasant just now to have discreditable stories going about concerning the future Mrs. Ascott's relatives.
Having been planned, designed, and constructed according to Portlaw's own calculations, the dam presently burst and the escaping flood drowned some of Mrs. Ascott's sheep. Then somebody cut some pine timber on her side of the line and Mrs. Ascott's smouldering indignation flamed.
"Why not? Why should I not be married as well as my neighbors?" said she, sharply. Nobody arguing that point, both being indeed too bewildered to argue at all, she continued, majestically, "I assure you, sisters, there could not be a more unexceptionable offer. It is true, Mr. Ascott's origin was rather humble; but I can overlook that.
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