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The rustle of her dress attracted his attention, and glancing up, he saw his betrothed at his side. One might have counted ten, while they silently regarded each other; and as if conscious of having unmasked some disloyalty, scarcely yet acknowledged to himself, haughty defiance hardened and darkened his face. Involuntarily his hold on Beryl's fingers tightened.
Did you ever know of anything so mysterious in your life?" Harkness never had. He read the telegram with brows drawn together. "Mebbe they left out something," he suggested, turning the sheet and scrutinizing its back. "Well, I'll have to go." Beryl's voice betrayed her deep excitement. "I can catch the evening train. Oh, Harkness, how often I've watched that go out and wished I was on it!
As she went nowhere she knew nothing of Beryl's visit to Rose Tree Gardens and of the gossip it had set going in certain circles in London. But she had never been able to forget the impression she had had when Beryl had introduced her to the man with the melting brown eyes. Beryl was surely in love. Yet she did not look happy. Certainly her father's death might have upset her.
The Trouts were for ever running out of things and sending across to the Burnells' at the last moment. But Jonathan only answered, "A little love, a little kindness;" and he walked by his sister-in-law's side. Linda dropped into Beryl's hammock under the manuka-tree, and Jonathan stretched himself on the grass beside her, pulled a long stalk and began chewing it. They knew each other well.
When she had finished this letter Lady Sellingworth read it over carefully twice, then put it into an envelope and wrote on the envelope Beryl's address, and in the corner "strictly private." But having done this she did not fasten the envelope, though she lit a red candle that was on the table and took up a stick of sealing-wax. Again hesitation seized her. The written word remains.
She declared it with an ardent triumph. This mother who had once dreamed things for herself dreamed them now for her boy and girl. From Beryl's infancy she had taught her to want "fine things." And Beryl wanted them with all her heart and, with youth's selfishness, wanted them for herself, alone.
For, unlike its neighbors in the village below, this house was as white as fresh white paint could make it, at the windows hung crisply white curtains, a brass knocker dignified its broad door. Robin, always imaginative, clutched Beryl's arm with a breathless giggle. "Beryl, it's like the house of bread and cake with the window panes of sugar.
Then the lawyer remembered Beryl's great good fortune and that nothing had been said concerning that. How happy Robin would be! In answer to Madame's summons Robin and Beryl came to the library, nervously sedate in manner and with fingers intertwined in a close grip. Madame beckoned to them with her jeweled white hand. "Come to me, Robin.
"Oh! do not tell me that you have broken your engagement!" The two looked steadily at each other, and while Leo's proud face gave no hint of pain or embarrassment, Beryl's blanched, quivered. "How did you know that any engagement ever existed?" "All X knew it. Mrs. Singleton and Sister Serena told me." "I dissolved that engagement before I went to Europe."
For instance, if I had a friend buried in the cemetery here, to whom should I apply for identification of the grave?" The General screwed up his features into a judicial frown. "Well er I should go to the communal office in the village, if I were you," said he. Braving his mother's possible displeasure, George de Courcy Vavasour asserted his manliness for Beryl's benefit.
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