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We were favoured with Sir James Colquhoun's coach to convey us in the evening to Cameron, the seat of Commissary Smollet. Our satisfaction of finding ourselves again in a comfortable carriage was very great.
Colquhoun's opinion, based upon prolonged observation, that, if China were conquered by Russia, organized, disciplined and led by Russian officers and Russian administrators, an industrial and military organization would be developed which India could not face, and which would shake to its foundations the entire fabric of the British Empire.
His first question about a strange woman was always; "Is she good-looking?" and his first thought when one whom he knew happened to be mentioned was always as to whether she was attractive in appearance or not. He was one of several of Colonel Colquhoun's brother officers who had graced the wedding. There was not much variety amongst them.
Her senses had been stunned, and still slept heavily; but there remained to her a vivid recollection of the entrancing period which had followed their first awakening, and so she answered Colonel Colquhoun's last remark decidedly.
But evidently Major Colquhoun's views upon the subject differ widely from mine, and it seems to me utterly impossible that we should ever be able to accommodate ourselves to each other's principles.
I had ceased to be critical, however. Colonel Colquhoun's careless neglect of her had continued throughout her illness, and I thought I understood. I had necessarily seen much of Evadne during her illness, and the intimacy never again lapsed. Jealousy was not one of Colonel Colquhoun's vices.
"I shall have no difficulty in proving to the world's satisfaction that you shamefully cheated Dino Vasari, and that you twice yes, twice tried to murder him, in order to gain your own ends. "There is no proof there is no legal proof," cried Hugo, boldly. But his lips were white. "But there is plenty of moral proof, young man," said Mr. Colquhoun's dry voice.
If we could carry her safely through this trying time, she would be able to take her proper place with the best of her sex in the battle of life, to fight with them and for them, which was what we both ardently desired to see her do. There had been never a word of the mental malady since Colquhoun's death.
It was four o'clock when somebody at length approached his door, knocked, and then shook the door-handle. "Hugo! Are you there?" It was Mr. Colquhoun's voice. "Can't you open the door?" Hugo hesitated a moment: then turned the key, leaving Mr. Colquhoun to enter if he pleased. He came in looking rather astonished at this mode of admittance. "So! It's sick, you are, is it?
Frayling; he seemed to insinuate that she might and should have done something to prevent all this; while there was a mixture of sympathy, deprecation, and apology in his manner to his son-in-law, combined with a certain air of absolving himself from all responsibility in the matter. Major Colquhoun's own attitude was wholly enigmatical.
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