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I want to have all the talents that is, all of them I can get to come and honor the house of a mere novice and beginner. I did not catch either your friend's surname or his Christian name. Ever yours sincerely, ADELA CUNYNGHAM." He tossed the letter on to the table. "I wonder," he said to himself, "how much of that is meant for me, and how much for Maurice Mangan and newspaper paragraphs."
"I say, Miss Burgoyne," Lionel interposed, quickly, "there's a sister-in-law of his coming to town shortly, on her way to Brighton a Miss Cunyngham and I should like to have her mother and herself come behind for a little while, some night they were at the theatre it is interesting to those people, you know " "You are the one who would have no strangers in the wings!" said the voice.
The sudden catastrophe staggered for a moment the soldiers following their officer, but Lieutenant Dick Cunyngham rallied them immediately and led them forward at speed. For his conduct on this occasion Cunyngham received the Victoria Cross. With rolling volleys Highlanders and Guides reached and won the summit.
If Lady Adela and her sisters were coming to this exhibition, was it not highly probable that Honnor Cunyngham might be of the party? He did not wish to meet any one of them; especially did he not care to meet them while he was acting as escort to Miss Burgoyne.
Miss Burgoyne, who was a remarkably sharp-eyed young woman, and had a clever and merry tongue withal, when she was disposed to be humorous. Then he bethought him of what Honnor Cunyngham, with her firm independence of character, her proud self-reliance, would have said to all these timorous fancies. He knew perfectly well what she would say.
By this time the stalker had got out of sight. He was making a considerable detour, so as to get round by the back of the hillock unobserved; and when he came into view again, he was on the other side of the valley. The mergansers, if they were mergansers, were still swimming about unsuspectingly, though sometimes at a considerable distance apart. "Does Miss Cunyngham shoot as well as fish?"
Now when you have slain a stag one day, it is not so much of a triumph to kill a salmon the next; nevertheless Lionel was as heartily glad to see that fish ashore as he would have been deeply mortified had it escaped. For was not Honnor Cunyngham looking on? Nay, she was kind enough to say to him, "You played that fish very well, Mr. Moore."
Lionel thought that before he tried casting in the presence of Miss Honnor Cunyngham, he should like to get a few quiet lessons from old Robert. However, all this expenditure of skill proved to be of no avail.
He looked at his watch; there was yet time; he would hurry through his breakfast and catch the 10.45 to Brighton. But was there nothing else prompting this unpremeditated resolve to get away down to Victoria station? Not some secret hope that he might perchance descry Lady Cunyngham and her daughter among the crowd swarming on to the long platform?
It was Honnor Cunyngham who did that for you last time, and I think it should be my turn to-morrow morning." "Oh, thank you!" said he; but "Thank you for nothing!" he said in his heart; for why should any frivolous trinket even when presented by this very charming and complaisant young damsel be allowed to interfere with the prerogative of Miss Cunyngham's sacred talisman?
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