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Rumor had already reached Buntingford of what the squire had intended to do on the receipt of his own wife, rumors which had of course since faded away into nothing. It had been positively notified to Buntingford that there should be really a new carpet and new curtains in the drawing-room.
Buntingford and Helena riding, their well-matched figures disappearing under the trees, the sun glancing from the glossy coats of their horses; Helena, drawing in some nook of the park, her face flushed with the effort to satisfy her teacher, and Buntingford bending over her; or again, Helena dancing, in pale green and apple-blossom, while Buntingford leaned against the wall, watching her with folded arms, and eyes that smiled over her conquests.
She still talked revolution, and she was always ready to spar with Lord Buntingford, or other people. But all the same Lucy Friend was often aware of a much more tractable temper, a kind of hesitancy and appeasement which, even if it passed away, made her beauty, for the moment, doubly attractive.
I dare say it will go all right!" But the tone was one of resignation, rather than certainty. "I'll do my best " began Mrs. Friend. "I'm sure you will. But well, we'd better be frank with each other. Helena's very handsome very self-willed and a good bit of an heiress. The difficulty will be quite candidly lovers!" They both laughed. Lord Buntingford took out his cigarette case.
It was in all respects better that the waters of the fountain should be allowed to irrigate mildly the whole Grendall family; and so Miles went into the city. The ball was opened by a quadrille in which Lord Buntingford, the eldest son of the Duchess, stood up with Marie. Various arrangements had been made, and this among them. We may say that it had been a part of the bargain.
"When the weather makes one want to hang oneself, then's the moment for immortal works." "For goodness' sake, don't prate, Julian!" said French, yawning, and flinging a rose-bud at Horne, which he had just gathered from a garden-bed at his elbow. "You've had so much more sleep than the rest of us, it isn't fair." "I saw him sup," said Buntingford. "Who saw him afterwards?"
"Probably," said Buntingford, after a moment. "Will you come into my study? I think you ought to hear our story before you see her." He led the way into the tiny house, and into his low-roofed study, packed with books from floor to ceiling, the books of a lonely man who had found in them his chief friends.
He has been under training for about six weeks, and certainly the results are most promising. I believe his mother protested to Lord Buntingford that he had not been neglected. Nobody can believe her, who sees now what has been done. Apparently a brain-surgeon in Naples was consulted as to the possibility of an operation.
The scene was both familiar and unfamiliar to Lord Buntingford. He had been brought up in it as a child.
Another knock at the door. Buntingford rose automatically, went to the door, spoke to the servant who had knocked, and came back with a note in his hand, which he took to the window to read. Then with steps which seemed to French to waver like those of a man half drunk he went to his writing-desk, and wrote a reply which he gave to the servant who was waiting in the passage.
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