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You don't wish to injure him, I'm sure." Mrs. Noel shook her head, and Lady Casterley went on: "I don't know what they're not saying since the evening your friend Mr. Courtier hurt his knee. Miltoun has been most unwise. You had not perhaps realized that." Mrs. Noel's answer was bitterly distinct: "I didn't know anyone was sufficiently interested in my doings."
She had a longing to get up, and take the hand, the chill, spidery hand of age, and thrust it into her breast, and say: "Feel that, and cease!" But, withal, she never lost her queer dull compassion for the owner of that white carved face. It was not her visitor's fault that she had come! Again Lady Casterley was speaking. "It is early days.
You must be careful of that child, Gertrude, or she will be doing something silly herself. I don't like the way she keeps Claud Harbinger hanging in the wind." Her daughter cut her short: "There is bad news about Eustace." Lady Casterley lost the little colour in her cheeks; lost, too, all her superfluity of irritable energy. "Tell me, at once!"
I was very much moved. If it hadn't been for your foolish conduct " "Ann!" said Lord Dennis once more. Lady Casterley paused, tapping the floor with her little foot. Barbara's eyes were gleaming. "Is there anything else you would like to squash, dear?" "Babs!" murmured Lord Dennis; but, unconsciously pressing his hand against her heart, the girl went on.
Absorbed in the intensity of her purpose, she did not observe a peculiar little smile playing round Barbara's lips. "You had better speak to Nature, too, Granny!" Lady Casterley stopped short, and looked up in her granddaughter's face. "Now what do you mean by that?" she said "Tell me!"
Lady Casterley replied sharply: "You're too easy-going, Geoffrey." Lord Valleys smiled. "These war scares," he said, "are getting a bore. Can't quite make out what the feeling of the country is about them." Lady Casterley rose: "It has none. When war comes, the feeling will be all right. It always is. Give me your arm. Are you hungry?"...
"You are lucky to be abusing me to-day if it had been yesterday " At these dark words Lady Casterley turned away, her shoes leaving little dull stains on the polished floor. Barbara raised to her cheek the fingers which she had been so convulsively embracing. "Don't let her go on, uncle," she whispered, "not just now!" "No, no, my dear," Lord Dennis murmured, "certainly not it is enough."
But remember this, my dear, however you may change you mustn't wobble. Only one thing counts in that place, hitting the same nail on the head with the same hammer all the time. You aren't looking at all well." Miltoun, bending to kiss her, murmured: "Thanks, I'm all right." "Nonsense," replied Lady Casterley. "They don't look after you. Was your mother in the House?" "I don't think so." "Exactly.
You'll go back to London now, I suppose." Looking suddenly at Barbara she saw that the girl's eyes were half-closed, and that she was smiling; it seemed to Lady Casterley too or was it fancy? that she shook her head.
"If he turns vicious I shall talk to him. He won't touch me. You can run faster than I; so that's settled." "Don't be absurd, dear," answered Barbara; "I am not afraid of bulls." Lady Casterley flashed a look at her which had a gleam of amusement. "I can feel you," she said; "you're just as trembly as I am."
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