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Her intimacy with Miss Bretherton had not gone far before the subject of 'Mr. Kendal's interesting sister' had been introduced, and on this particular afternoon, as Kendal entered her drawing-room, his ear was caught at once by the sound of Marie's name.
Fires were still pleasant at night, but in the daytime the bright, cool weather was splendid. Moberly's servant soon had some tea and chupatties ready, and while we were eating them, Bretherton, who had been out clearing some village on the other side of the fort, came in.
Mrs. Stuart did her duty bravely. Miss Bretherton had announced to her, with a thousand regrets, that she had only half an hour to give. 'We poor professionals, you know, must dine at four. That made me late, and now I find I am such a long way from home that six is the latest moment I can stay. So that Mrs. Stuart was put to it to get through all the introductions she had promised.
But, of course, one can understand that it is just these traits in her that help her to make the impression she does on London society and the orthodox public in general. 'Wallace and I went off after the nut-hatches, enjoying a private laugh by the way over Mrs. Stuart's little look of amazement and discomfort as Miss Bretherton delivered herself.
'How strange that there should be anything in the world, cried Miss Bretherton, 'so beautiful all through, so all of a piece as this! I had no idea it would be half so good. Don't, don't laugh at me, Mr. Forbes. I have not seen all the beautiful things you other people have seen. Just let me rave.
I never saw anybody attract him so much; she is absolutely different from anything he has seen before; and, as he says, the mixture of ignorance and genius in her yes, genius; don't be startled! is most stimulating to the imagination. 'August 22. 'During the last few days I have not been seeing so much of Miss Bretherton as before.
No matter what the outcome of this is, Levi Markham, I reckon you'll live to thank me for putting you on the right track." "I'm still on my narrow gauge, madam." Markham smiled not unkindly and put out his hand. "Please bid your sister farewell. I shall not return to Bretherton, I imagine. I will never willingly abase myself again, not even for Lans!"
He and the Bretherton party, however, had been going about together for several days, so that he and she had plenty of gossip in common. Miss Bretherton's enthusiasm about Venice is of a very naive, hot, outspoken kind. It seems to me that she is a very susceptible creature. She lives her life fast, and crowds into it a greater number of sensations than most people.
'However, the upshot of the supper-party was that next day Wallace, Forbes, and I met at Mrs. Stuart's house, and formed a Sunday League for the protection of Miss Bretherton from her family; in other words, we mean to secure that she has occasional rest and country air on Sunday her only free day. Mrs. Stuart has already wrung out of Mrs.
"Yes, sir, I reckon I am." The quaint politeness of his protégé charmed Markham by its contrasts to the manner of other boys with whom he had come into contact. "Sit down, and take it easy. Shut the window. You never seem to be able to hear when the sash is raised." "Us-all's been used, sir, to still places." "Now, then! In a day or two we will be home, Sandford. Home in Bretherton, Mass.
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