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Caryll came promptly to her rescue. "Your ladyship must confess that Mistress Winthrop has assisted nobly in the care of me, and so, has placed your ladyship in her debt." "In my debt?" shrilled the countess, eyebrows aloft, head-dress nodding. "And what of yours?" "In my clumsy way, ma'am, I have already attempted to convey my thanks to her.
Another second and the rest of her emerged. Mr. Caryll observed and be it known that he had the very shrewdest eye for a woman, as became one of the race from which on his mother's side he sprang that she was middling tall, chastely slender, having, as he judged from her high waist, a fine, clean length of limb.
He'd use the matter of your affair with Caryll as a reason not to meet you, whatever you might do, and he'd set his grooms to punish any indignity you might put upon him." "He durst not." "Pooh! The town would all approve him in it since your running Caryll through the back. What a fool you were, Charles."
"Stab me!" was Mr. Jenkins' most uncanonical comment. "I vow I am over-flustered. Your lordship is so impatient with me. This gentleman is right. But that I was so flustered. Will you not change places with his lordship, ma'am?" They changed places, after the viscount had thanked Mr. Caryll shortly and cursed the parson with circumstance and fervor.
A moment later the adversaries were face to face Rotherby, divested of his wig and with a kerchief bound about his close-cropped head, all a trembling eagerness; Mr. Caryll with a reluctance lightly masked by a dangerous composure. There was a perfunctory salute a mere presenting of arms and the blades swept round in a half-circle to their first meeting.
But pitiful though he looked, he inspired no pity in the Duke of Wharton, who considered him with an eye of unspeakable severity. "If Mr. Caryll dies," said he coldly, "I shall see to it that you hang, my lord. I'll not rest until I bring you to the gallows."
Mr. Caryll, leaning on the sill of his window, looked down with interest to see what manner of travellers were these that went at so red-hot a pace. From the rumble a lackey swung himself to the rough cobbles of the yard. From within the inn came again landlady and chamberlain, and from the stable ostler and boy, obsequious all and of no interest to Mr. Caryll.
Caryll's steady glance, but failing miserably. "'Tis farther back," Mr. Caryll informed him in answer to that mute question; and as the fellow moistened his thumb to turn back the pages, Mr. Caryll saved him the trouble. "It says, I think, that the man should be on your right hand and the woman on your left. Ye seem to have reversed matters, Mr. Jenkins. But perhaps ye're left-handed."
The next half-holiday came on a Saturday the Saturday of that same week and as the weather was lovely just then, Aunt Mattie begged her sister to allow the three elder boys to spend it at Caryll, as she had planned with Rosamond. So it was arranged that, as soon as morning lessons were over, the four children should walk back together in time for early dinner at Rosamond's home.
He drew breath, hissing and audible, glanced once at Caryll; then: "A moment!" said he. He strode to the door and called the footmen, then turned again. "Mr. Caryll," he said in a formal voice, "will you give yourself the trouble of waiting in the ante-room? I need to consider upon this matter." Mr. Caryll, conceiving that it was with his mother that Rotherby intended to consider, rose instantly.
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