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Was she engaged to him?" "On sufferance. On her death-bed Mrs. Douglas had wrung from Mr. Bowater a promise that if Archie did well, and ever had means enough, he would not refuse consent; but he always distrusted poor Archie, because of his father, and I believe he sent Jenny away to be out of his reach.
Bowater was, for the tenth time, consulting her old friend upon Mrs.
Raymond repeated his question as to the quarters of Miles's wife. "I had the old schoolroom and the bedroom adjoining newly fitted up," answered Mrs. Poynsett. "Jenny Bowater was here yesterday, and gave the finishing touches. She tells me the rooms look very nice. Cecil, my dear, you must excuse deficiencies; I shall look to you in future." "I hope to manage well," said Cecil.
Tallboys, it would be more consistent," said Jenny. "Her creation and her purpose in the world stand upon precisely the same authority." "I wonder at you, Miss Bowater," said Mrs. Tallboys. "I cannot understand a woman trying to depreciate her sex." "There was such a club proposed in London," said Captain Duncombe, "and do you know, Gussie, the name of it?" "No!" "The Middlesex Club!"
"Oh yes: Phil Bowater opened the ball with her, and she dances very nicely so quietly, Mrs. Bowater remarked it. As to Rosamond, she was in her native element is indeed, for she would not hear of coming away when we did." "And Julius?" "Standing in a doorway, with others of his kind, absently talking, and watching Rosamond out of the tail of his eye.
She gazed, and thought of the wrecked life that might have been so rich in joys; nay, her tenderness for her father could not hide from her how unlike his old age was from that of Mr. Bowater, or of any men who had done their service to their generation in all noble exertion.
Wouldn't he be flattered to hear of the stunning excitement when they heard of Captain Bowater, and how the old lady, their mother, talked by the yard about him? You'll get a welcome indeed when you come, old fellow. When shall it be?" "No, thank you, Phil," said Herbert, gravely. "I shall come back here as soon as I am well enough. But there is one thing I wish you would do for me." "Well, what?
Throwing his bridle to Herbert Bowater, he sprang to the horses' heads. "Mr. Poynsett! Thank you! I beg your pardon," said the lady, recovering herself; and Rosamond instantly perceived that she must be Lady Tyrrell, for she was young-looking, very handsome, and in slight mourning; and her companion was Miss Vivian. Julius, holding his surviving glass to his eye, likewise stepped forward.
"He was organizing the cheers," said Mr. Bindon. "You shone in that, Bowater. They kept such good time." "You were very good to cheer us at all," said Julius, "coming in the wake of the Squire as we did." "The best of it was," said the junior, "that Charlie was so awfully afraid that he and poor Miles's wife would be taken for the Squire, that he dashed in on his way to warn me to choke them off.
Bowater received with something inarticulate that might be regarded as a polite form of 'fudge, which made Cecil think him a horribly rude old man, and evidently discomposed his wife very much.
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