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Caryll was plainly moved. He had paled a little, and he sat now with brows contracted and set teeth. Sir Richard pushed back his chair and rose, recapitulating. "He is your mother's destroyer," he said, with a sad sternness. "Is the ruin of that fair life to go unpunished? Is it, Justin?" Mr. Caryll's Gallic spirit burst abruptly through its British glaze.
The hostess was shrewd, but not shrewd enough, and if Mr. Caryll's expression changed for an instant, it resumed its habitual half-scornful calm so swiftly that it would have needed eyes of an exceptional quickness to have read it. "Enough!" he said. "Who could deny his lordship?" "Shall I tell them you are coming?" she inquired, her hand already upon the door.
Sir Richard's eyes were open, and he was looking about him at the doctor, the valet, and, lastly, at his adopted son. He smiled faintly at the latter. Then the doctor touched Mr. Caryll's sleeve, and drew him aside. "I cannot reach the bullet," he said. "But 'tis no matter for that." He shook his head solemnly. "The lung has been pierced. A little time now, and I can do nothing more." Mr.
"And for his own?" "Pshaw!" "Are you a father?" she wondered contemptuously. "To my eternal shame, ma'am!" he flung back at her. He seemed, indeed, a changed man in more than body since Mr. Caryll's duel with Lord Rotherby. "No more, ma'am no more!" he cried, seeming suddenly to remember the presence of Mr. Caryll, who sat languidly drawing figures on the ground with the ferrule of his cane.
Suddenly, as if drawn by his ardent gaze, Hortensia's eyes moved at last from their forward fixity. Her glance met Mr. Caryll's across the intervening space. Instantly he swept off his hat, and bowed profoundly. The action drew attention to himself. All eyes were focussed upon him, and between many a pair there was a frown for one who should dare thus to run counter to the general attitude.
Caryll's coachman, and a very superior man, for he had travelled with his master at one time not like Griffiths at Moor Edge, who, though most trustworthy in every way, had never been very many miles distant from home in his life, and was full of all the prejudices and even superstitions of that part of the country.
The effect was ludicrous from Mr. Caryll's point of view and yet it was disappointing. Five pairs of dilating eyes confronted him, five gaping mouths. Then her ladyship broke into a laugh. "The creature's mad I've long suspected it." And she meant to be taken literally; his many whimsicalities were explained to her at last. He was, indeed, half-witted, as he now proved. Mr.
"I breaks it to him short and straight. "'Captain Caryll's compliments, sir, says I. 'And he's dead. "Nelson claps his hands to his face as though I'd struck him. Then he falls on my neck afoor em all Dons too. "'O Ding-dong! says he. 'I loved him. Just like that. 'I loved him.... "Yes, that was Nelson all through: one alf woman, t'other alf hero. "Then he pulls himself together.
She was all smiles and cheerfulness now, for Mr. and Mrs. Hervey's return was the greatest possible relief to her. 'I hope everything has been all right while we were away? said the boys' mother kindly. 'Yes, thank you, said Miss Ward, 'at least everything is quite right now. I had just a little trouble, but it was really accidental, and Mrs. Caryll's coming this afternoon was such a pleasure.
But there was more to follow. The Lady Mary accepted Mr. Caryll's salutation of Hortensia as a signal. She led the way promptly, and the little band swept forward, straight for its goal, raked by the volleys from a thousand eyes, under which the Lady Mary already began to giggle excitedly. Thus they reached the countess, the countess standing very rigid in her amazement, to receive them.
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