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Drinkworthy to the Colquhoun House, nor encouraged Evadne to associate with her as he had always encouraged her to associate with Mrs. Guthrie Brimston.
Guthrie Brimston answered, with an affectation of reserve. "Now you do surprise me!" Captain Belliot declared. "Because I cannot imagine her saying anything but 'How do you do? and 'Good-bye, 'Yes' and 'No, 'Indeed! 'Please, 'Thank you, and 'Do you think so? On my honour, those words are all I have ever heard her utter, and I have met her as often as anybody on the island.
"She ignores no fact of life which may be usefully noticed and commented upon, but gives each in its natural order without affectation. Do you not agree with me?" he asked, turning to Mrs. Guthrie Brimston who was standing beside him. Her nostrils flapped. "If you mean to say that you like Mrs. Malcomson's book, I do not agree with you," she answered decidedly; "I consider it improper, simply!"
Of the Guthrie Brimston morals it is safe to say that they would neither of them have broken either the sixth, seventh, or eighth commandments; but they bore false witness freely not in open assertion, however, for that could be easily refuted, and fair fight was not at all in their line.
Guthrie Brimston had begun to realize that when Evadne did speak it was to some purpose, and she watched now and awaited the event in evident trepidation. "She's not telling him! She never would dare to!" slipped from her unawares. "They are coming this way," Colonel Colquhoun observed significantly. "I shall go!" cried Mrs, Guthrie Brimston. "Come, Bobbie!"
"Let them have a carriage and horses whenever they like, Don," she said, "and give them plenty to eat; but don't otherwise encourage them to come here." Recollecting which, I now inferred that Mrs. Guthrie Brimston would not answer my present purpose at all. This was the first time Evadne had shown any objection to being left alone.
The moment they appeared, however, the men about Mrs. Guthrie Brimston exchanged glances of unmistakable significance, and the young widow, perceiving this, flushed crimson with indignation. "Guilty conscience!" Major Guthrie Brimston remarked upon this, with a chuckle. Mr. St. John had witnessed the incident and overheard the remark, and the import of both forced itself upon his attention, Mr.
I see a light, fust of all, a-leapin' an' a-dancin' about 'mong the trees ah! an' I 'eerd shouts as was enough to curdle a man's good blood. 'Pooh! what's lights? says Joel Amos, cockin' 'is eye into 'is empty tankard; 'that bean't much to frighten a man, no, nor shouts neither. 'Aren't it? says John Pringle, fierce-like; 'what if I tell ye the place be full o' flamin' fire what if I tell ye I see the devil 'isself, all smoke, an' sparks, an' brimston' a-floatin' an' a-flyin', an' draggin' a body through the tops o' the trees? 'Lord! says everybody, an' well they might, Peter, an' nobody says nothin' for a while.
"I notice when anyone's character is brought forward to be judged by society they are always Counsel for the Prosecution." These were the people whom Colonel Colquhoun first introduced to Evadne. They amused him, and therefore he encouraged them to come to the house. Mrs. Guthrie Brimston suited him exactly.
Guthrie Brimston; "Our dance, I think," he said, offering her his arm. She took it, perking and preening herself, and began to say something about Mrs. Malcomson in agreement with his last remark: "You are quite right about her," Mr. St. John overheard. "She is always jeering at men. She abuses you wholesale. I've heard her often."
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