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The crowd was thick in the ball-room; a dance in full swing; my cousin gambolling vivaciously, and, for the moment, with his back to us. Flora leaned on Ronald, and, skirting the wall, our party gained the great door and the vestibule, where Chevenix stood with an armful of cloaks. "You and Ronald can return and enjoy yourselves," said the old lady, "as soon as ye've packed us off.
It was the third morning after the duel, and Goguelat was still in life, when the time came round for me to give Major Chevenix a lesson. At least, he was a man of education; and of the others with whom I had any opportunity of speech, those that would not have held a book upsidedown would have torn the pages out for pipe- lights.
"He was, was he? Glyde on Woman. He ought to wait for his beard to grow; then you might listen to him." Glyde, who was dumb in company, was hacking into the clods, while Chevenix, to whom he was negligible, pursued his own affair. "I say, Sancie, I'm going to ask a favour of you not the first, by any means; but I always was a sturdy beggar. The Lord loveth a sturdy beggar, eh?
O, I must say I like that Major Chevenix! At this I was seized with a great pang of jealousy. I remembered the first time that he had seen her, the interest that he seemed immediately to conceive; and I could not but admire the dog for the use he had been ingenious enough to make of our acquaintance in order to supplant me. All is fair in love and war.
Through the strings blew the wind from the south-west. "I love him I shall see him to-morrow I shall never tell him so but he will read it in my eyes. He never kissed me when he might he will not do it now when he must not. I am a fool, a fool, a fool! Thank God, I am a fool again!" "I fancy," said Chevenix, as they breasted the down, "that to the candid observer we present a very pretty sight.
He looked at her directly. "Oh, I was, you know. Otherwise, I guess I should have written. I was idiotically happy. And you?" "I was busy," she told him, "idiotically busy." He laughed gaily. "That's one for me and a shrewd one. Oh, you deep-eyed scamp! Sancie, you never give yourself away. I've noticed that many and many a time. And not I only, I can assure you. Bill Chevenix, now "
Then she addressed Chevenix: "You are coming to the Assembly, of course, Major Chevenix?" said she. "I fear not; I fear I shall be otherwise engaged," he replied. "Even the pleasure of dancing with you, Miss Flora, must give way to duty." For a while the talk ran harmlessly on the weather, and then branched off towards the war. It seemed to be by no one's fault; it was in the air, and had to come.
The omnibus brought the four of them, with a maid sitting on the box beside Frodsham, and a bank of luggage behind her head. No parrots, no dogs; but a Mr. Chevenix brought his fishing-rods. Besides this Mr. Chevenix, who had been here before, there was an elderly Mrs. Devereux, white-haired and short-sighted, who used, whenever she could find them, a pair of long-handled glasses, and a young Mrs.
"It's just a young gentleman to be put to the horn for debt," I explained, recalling the barbarous and, to me, still unmeaning phrase. "I'm no speiring," replied the waiter. I made my way back, and was not a little disgusted to find my chair occupied by the unconscionable Chevenix. "My dear Miss Flora, you are unwell!" Indeed, she was pale enough, poor child, and trembling.
But the fact is Well, you know " and he glanced anxiously at the lady, "I've nothing to go upon, absolutely nothing as yet; but the fact is, I'm not sure whether she would take him, you know now." "Is that possible?" was all the lady could find to say, with a throw-up of the hands. "Is that possible?" "Quite with Sanchia," said Chevenix.
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