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"To be sure she is!" Thresk was quite taken aback by the news. "I had no idea of it," he said slowly, and Mrs. Carruthers replied sweetly: "But lots of people live in India, Mr. Thresk. Didn't you know that? We are not the uttermost ends of the earth." Thresk set to work to make his peace. He had not heard of Mrs. Ballantyne for so long.
His impatience had so grown during the last few days that his very sleep was broken at night and in the daytime he could not keep still. The news of Dick's engagement to Stella Ballantyne was now known throughout the countryside and the blame for it was laid upon Harold Hazlewood's shoulders. For blame was the general note, blame and chagrin.
I feel almost sensitive on this point, for I have always laboured to be true to nature and to fact even in my wildest flights of fancy. This reminds me of the remark made to myself once by a lady in reference to this same "Coral Island." "There is one thing, Mr. Ballantyne," she said, "which I really find it hard to believe.
There remained unpaid at his death about fifty-five thousand pounds of the Ballantyne debts, besides private encumbrances on Abbotsford, etc., including the ten thousand which Constable had extracted, he knowing, from Scott unknowing, the extent of the ruin, in the hours just before it.
He had become in 1799 independent, though not rich, by being appointed Sheriff of Selkirkshire. His beginnings as an author proper were connected, as was all his subsequent career, partly for good but more for ill, with a school friendship he had early formed for two brothers named Ballantyne at Kelso.
Cadell for a printing job now and then when Ballantyne is over-loaded, which Mr. Cadell promised accordingly. Lady Anna Maria Elliot's company at dinner. Helped on our family party, and passed the evening pleasantly enough, my anxiety considering. June 21. A very wet Sunday. I employed it to good purpose, bestowing much labour on the History, ten pages of which are now finished.
Pettifer. "You actually Oh!" Indignation robbed her of words. She gasped. "Yes, I do," continued Dick calmly. "I want you to come one night and dine at Little Beeding. We'll persuade Mrs. Ballantyne to come too." It was a bold move, and even in his eyes it had its risks for Stella. To bring Mrs. Pettifer and her together was, so it seemed to him, to mix earth with delicate flame.
For it presented to him in the most unexpected manner another and a new side of the strange and complex character of Stephen Ballantyne. "Yes, why don't I destroy it?" Ballantyne repeated. "I ask myself that," and he took the photograph out of Thresk's hands and sat in a sort of muse, staring at it.
This day visited by Mr. Carr, who is a sensible, clever young man, and by his two sisters beautiful singer the youngest and to my taste, and English music. April 9. Laboured correcting proofs and revising; the day infinitely bad. Worked till three o'clock; then tried a late walk, and a wet one. I hear bad news of James Ballantyne. Hypochondriac I am afraid, and religiously distressed in mind.
But Thresk accounted for it by that decanter on the sideboard, in which the level of the whisky had been so noticeably lowered that evening. He was wrong however, for Ballantyne sprang to his feet. "You are going away to-night. You can do me a service." "Can I?" asked Thresk. He understood at last why Ballantyne had been at such pains to interest and amuse him. "Yes.
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