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Oh, Stanley, in mercy, tell me was there any other engagement? 'Nothing, darling nothing on earth of the sort; and he spoke with an icy little laugh. 'Your poor soldier is altogether yours, Dorkie, and he kissed her cheek. 'Thank God for that! said Dorcas, hardly above her breath.
She heard the door close, and looking half over her shoulder, in a low tone indicating surprise, she merely said: 'Oh! receiving him with a proud sad look. 'Yes, Dorkie, I'm here at last. I've been for some weeks so insufferably busy, and he laid his white hand lightly over his eyes, as if they and the brain within were alike weary.
Rachel, with a bright blush on her cheeks, stepped quickly up to her, put her arms about her neck and kissed her, and over her shoulder she cried to her brother 'Tell her, Stanley. And so she quickly left the room and was gone. 'Well, Dorkie, love, what's the matter? said Stanley sharply, at last breaking the silence. 'I really don't know you, perhaps, can tell, answered she coldly.
Never was a poor devil so lectured about nothing as I between you. Come now, Dorkie, be a good girl you must not look so vexed. 'I'm not vexed. 'What then? 'I'm only thinking. She said this with the same bitter smile. Stanley Lake looked for a moment disposed to break into one of his furies, but instead he only laughed his unpleasant laugh.
He seated himself beside her, drawing his chair very close to hers, and taking her hand in his. He was more affectionate this evening than usual. What did it portend? she thought. She had already begun to acquiesce in Rachel's estimate of Stanley, and to fancy that whatever he did it was with an unacknowledged purpose. 'Does little Dorkie love me? said Lake, in a sweet undertone.
His doing so places him in the same interest with us; and, although he does not offer its full value, still I should sleep sounder if it were concluded; and the fact is, I don't think we are safe until that sale is concluded. Dorcas looked for a moment earnestly in his face, and then down, in thought. 'Now, Dorkie, I have told you all. Who is to advise you, if not your husband?
And first I'll tell you, upon my honour, what Rachel has been worrying me about. Dorcas sate beside him on the sofa, and he placed his slender arm affectionately round her waist. 'You must know, Dorkie, that before his sudden departure, Mark Wylder promised to lend William, his brother, a sum sufficient to relieve him of all his pressing debts. 'Debts!
It is five-and-thirty years since anyone connected with Brandon came forward. But it will cost a great deal of money, Dorkie. 'Yes, I know. I've always heard it cost my uncle and Sir William Camden fifteen thousand pounds. 'Yes, it will be expensive, Wealdon thinks very, this time. The other side will spend a great deal of money.
He used to call her 'Miss Dorkie, playfully to his clerks. It gave him consideration, he fancied. And now with this Five Oaks to begin with L1,400 a year a great capability, immensely improvable, he would stake half he's worth on making it more than L2,000 within five years; and with other things at his back, an able man like him might before long look as high as she.
'How charming this place is the temple of Flora, and you the divinity! And he kissed her cheek. 'I'm now emancipated for, I hope, a week or two. I've been so stupid and inattentive. I'm sure, Dorkie, you must think me a brute.
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