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"Tell me what you wish," she said. "I want you not to make a favorite of Rosamund Cunliffe. Already she has begun to upset everything last night all the drawing-room arrangements, her own bedroom afterwards; then, to-day, the other girls have done nothing but obey her. If this goes on, how is order to be maintained?" Miss Archer looked thoughtful.
'Look here, Ursula, I shall be late at the Pollocks', and your aunt and Sara have gone on, and there is Tudor in the drawing-room, just arrived with a message from Cunliffe. Of course we must put him up; but the trouble is there is no dinner, and of course he is famished: young men always are. My heart sank as I thought of Jill, but there was no help for it. Max's friends were sacred. Mr.
She found amongst many other letters one from her old friend, Rosamund's mother. Mrs. Cunliffe wrote to say that she was glad Lady Jane liked Rosamund, and gave her hearty consent to Rosamund's spending a good deal of her time at Lady Jane's house. "I may as well tell you," continued the mother, "that Rosamund herself is somewhat difficult to manage.
'Come out into the garden, Giles, she said, with a ladylike yawn; 'it is so hot indoors. I thought you said that you expected Mr. Cunliffe. 'Perhaps he will be here by and by, returned Mr. Hamilton; and then he looked up and saw me. 'Miss Garston! he ejaculated, as though he could scarcely believe his eyes, and Miss Darrell broke into an angry little laugh; but I took no notice of her.
The British experts, Sumner and Cunliffe, continued to encourage Lloyd George in his belief that Germany could afford to pay something in the neighborhood of a hundred billion dollars, and the French Finance Minister, Klotz, was equally optimistic. At first, accordingly, Allied demands on Germany seemed likely to be fantastic.
'You know how Miss Locke's illness has engrossed me, I remonstrated. 'I never pretend to mere conventional calls. 'No, indeed. You have a code of your own, have you not? Your niece is fortunate, Mr. Cunliffe. She makes her own laws, while we poor inferior mortals are obliged to conform to the world's dictates. I wish I were strong-minded like you.
'I think you have heard of my cousin Jocelyn? I returned, without entering into any further particulars. I should have been sorry for Jill's escapade to reach Mr. Hamilton's ears. But he shook hands with her at once, and said, very pleasantly, that he had heard of her from Mr. Cunliffe. And then, after a few more words, we parted. Mr. Hamilton was unusually genial this morning.
Cunliffe was to me in my trouble; at least you can guess, though you can never really know it. When I was most forlorn and miserable I used to feel less wretched and hopeless when he was beside me; in every possible way he strengthened and braced me for my daily life; he roused me from my state of selfish despondency, put work into my hands, and encouraged me to persevere.
'No doubt you are right, she replied, sighing, and then she turned her head away, and I could see the old tremulous movement of her hands. 'Ursula, she said, in a very low voice, 'have you told Mr. Cunliffe about this? 'Uncle Max! I exclaimed, concealing my astonishment at hearing her mention his name of her own accord.
"How do you account for it?" she added. "How do I account for it?" replied Miss Frost. "I account for it because a blessed angel came to the house in the shape of Rosamund Cunliffe, the most splendid girl I have ever met. She came, and showed not a scrap of fear, even though that child that terrible child took her into the middle of the stream, just where she took you, you poor thing!"
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