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He read that her beautiful daughter Lady Sybil was quite the belle of Homburg, that the Duke of Atherstone was in constant attendance, that an interesting announcement might at any moment be made. He threw aside the paper and looked thoughtfully out into the stuffy little street, where even at night the air seemed stifling and unwholesome. After all, was he making the best of his life?
Atherstone examined it, and when it had not only spoilt all the jeweller's files in the town but had also passed an examination by polarized light, pronounced that it was a diamond worth £500. His certificate to its character, which had been so ignorantly disparaged, was the origin of the Diamond industry of South Africa.
She was improving rapidly, the doctor said, adding: "You ought to have seen her delight when I gave her your bouquet." "Indeed," and Agnes bridled haughtily; "I did not know that Guy was in the habit of sending bouquets to such as this Clyde girl. I really must report him to Miss Atherstone."
"No girl can resist Guy Remington," he thought. "I'm glad there's a Lucy Atherstone over the sea."
She has a way of absorbing all the attention from every one when she is around. I'm not going to have her begin with you." "I feel," Atherstone said, "like the man who married a twin said he never tried to tell the difference, you know, when a pal asked him how he picked out his own wife." "If you think," Sybil said, severely, "that you have made any arrangements of that sort I take it all back.
Charles, entirely unconscious of the noble sentiments which he and his flask had inspired, looked narrowly at his companion, as they neared the turn for Atherstone, and said with some anxiety: "Where are you going to-night?" Dare made no answer. He had no idea where he was going. Charles hesitated. He could not let him walk back alone to Vandon over the bridge. It was long past midnight.
Marion Atherstone shook her head over it, in spite of the humorous account of the defeat of Lady Coryston which her father had given to the Chancellor, at their little dinner of the night before; and those deep laughs which had shaken the ample girth of Glenwilliam. ... Ah! the blind was going up. Marion had her eyes on a particular window in the little house to her right.
Glenwilliam did nothing without consulting Atherstone, and the cottage on the hill had been the scene of many important meetings, and some decisions which would live in history. Marion Atherstone, on the other hand, though invaluable to her father, and much appreciated by his friends, took no intellectual part in his life. Brilliant creatures men and women came and went, to and from the cottage.
Guy, you now tell me honest do you think as much of Lucy Atherstone, as you used to, before you took up school-keepin'?"
"Something is wrong with that girl," she said to herself, as she drove back to Atherstone. "I know what it is. Charles has been behaving in his usual manner, and as there is no one else to point out to him how infamous such conduct is, I shall have to do it myself. Shameful! That charming, interesting girl!
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