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"On my guard!" he repeated. "Yes forearm you, Garry. Shiela Cardross is a rather bewildering beauty. She is French convent-bred, clever and cultivated and extremely talented. Besides that she has every fashionable grace and accomplishment at the ends of her pretty fingers and she has a way with her a way of looking at you which is pure murder to the average man.
"Not with you Virginia has apparently taken her cue from that unspeakable Mrs. Van Dieman, and is acting like the deuce toward Shiela Cardross. Couldn't you find an opportunity to discourage that sort of behaviour? It's astonishingly underbred." His aunt's eyelids flickered as she regarded him. "Come to see me to-night and explain a little more fully what Virginia has done, dear.
"I believe that girl could do it without disturbing her Own self-respect or losing caste below stairs or above. As for the Van Dieman just common cat, Constance." Miss Palliser laughed. "Shiela Cardross refused the Van Dieman son and heir if you think that might be an explanation of the cattishness." "Really?" asked Virginia, without interest. "Where did you hear that gossip?"
Sometimes he thought of Portlaw's perverse determination to spoil the magnificent simplicity of the place with exotic effects lugged in by the ears; sometimes he wondered what Mr. Cardross could have to say to Malcourt what matter of such urgent importance could possibly concern those two men.
His color came and went he looked anxiously, deprecatingly, at Mr. Cardross. "I hope, sir, you are not displeased with me for coming to-day. I shall not be very much trouble to you at least I will try to be as little trouble as I can."
Thomas Babington, the owner of Rothley Temple in Leicestershire, in the course of which the travellers paid a visit to the manse at Cardross. Mr. Babington fell in love with one of the daughters of the house, Miss Jean Macaulay, and married her in 1787. Nine years afterwards he had an opportunity of presenting his brother-in-law Aulay Macaulay with the very pleasant living of Rothley.
Classon calls a 'speed-mad cub. Then there is Cecile Cardross a débutante of last winter, and then " Miss Palliser hesitated, crossed one knee over the other, and sat gently swinging her slippered foot and looking at her nephew. "Does that conclude the list of the Cardross family?" he asked. "N-no. There remains the beauty of the family, Shiela."
The great doors used almost always to stand open, and the windows were rarely closed the countess like sunshine and fresh air, but now all was shut up and silent, and not a soul was to be seen about the place. Mr. Cardross sighed, and walked round to the other side of the castle, where was my lady's flower-garden, or what was to be made into one.
"I need not say that I never sought it never thought it possible it would really fall to my lot; but it has fallen, and I must discharge it to the best of my ability. You see what the earl is born alive, anyhow though we can hardly wish him to survive." The three gentlemen were silent. At length Mr. Cardross said, "There is one worse doubt which has occurred to me. Do you think, Dr.
Cardross, during a long term of years, had never vacated, except at communion seasons. It gave his faithful friend and pupil a sensation almost of pain to see any new figure there, and not the dear old minister's, with his long white hair, his earnest manner, and his simple, short sermon.
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