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'She was well? the mother asked, and the grand basso pitched forth an affirmative. 'Dear sweet girl she is! Mrs. Blathenoy exclaimed to Colney. He bowed. 'Very sweet. And can let fly on you, like a haggis, for a scratch. She laughed, glad of an escape from the conversational formalities imposed on her by this Mrs. Victor Radnor's mighty manner. 'But what girl worth anything! . . .
'She was well? the mother asked, and the grand basso pitched forth an affirmative. 'Dear sweet girl she is! Mrs. Blathenoy exclaimed to Colney. He bowed. 'Very sweet. And can let fly on you, like a haggis, for a scratch. She laughed, glad of an escape from the conversational formalities imposed on her by this Mrs. Victor Radnor's mighty manner. 'But what girl worth anything!...
Blathenoy came down with an arm on Nesta's shoulder. She held a telegram, and said to Nataly 'What can this mean? It's from my husband; he puts "Jacob": my husband's Christian name: so like my husband, where there's no concealment! There he says: "Down to-night else pack ready start to-morrow." Can it signify, affairs are bad with my husband in the city?
Radnor should be the one to second her very innocent turn for a galopade; her own position allowed of any little diverting jig or reel, or plunge in a bath she required it, for the domestic Jacob Blathenoy was a dry chip: proved such, without a day's variation during the whole of the ten wedded months. Nataly gratified her spoken wish.
Fenellan, with the usual apologetic moderation of a second statement, thought 'there was the look of it. 'Well, we must watch over her. Dartrey! but Dartrey's an honest fellow with women. But men are men. Very few men spare a woman when the mad fit is on her. A little woman-pretty little woman! wife to Jacob Blathenoy! She mustn't at her age have any close choosing under her hand.
So the mother's alarms were not raised. And really it was a pity, Mrs. Blathenoy said to Dartrey subsequently; finding him colder than before Mrs. Radnor's visit; it was a pity, because a young woman in Miss Radnor's position should not by any possibility be seen in association with a person of commonly doubtful appearance.
I fancy it is, that Victor stood against his paper at the table of the Bank. Blathenoy vowed blow for blow. But I think the little woman holds him in. She says she does. 'Victor prompted you? 'It occurred as it occurred. 'She does it for love of us? Oh! I can't trifle.
Blathenoy, resolving, that despite the jealousy she excited, she would have her friend in Captain Fenellan, whom she liked liked, she was sure, quite as innocently as any other woman of his acquaintance did, departed and she hugged her innocence defiantly, with the mournful pride which will sometimes act as a solvent. A remark or two passed among the company upon her pretty face.
Blathenoy was Nataly's first afternoon visitor, and was graciously received; no sign of inquiry for the cause of the lady's alacrity to greet her being shown. Colney Durance came in, bringing the rumour of an Australian cantatrice to kindle Europe; Mr.
Durance, where is Captain Dartrey? Mrs. Blathenoy had just conducted her husband through a crowd, for an introduction of him to Captain Dartrey. That was perceptible. Dudley Sowerby followed Nesta closely: he struck across the path of the Rev. Septimus: again he had the hollow of her ear at his disposal. 'Mr. Radnor was excellent.
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