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Do you know that Lord Dymchurch has proposed to May, and been refused?" "I did not know it." "You suspected as much." "I thought it possible. But the business was none of mine, and I gave very little heed to it." Lady Ogram had begun to totter. She let herself sink upon the sofa, and re-read the letter that shook in her hand. "He says he has a sister ill. Did you hear anything of that?"
Below him, far below him, shining blue, were the waters of the English Channel. Far off, a little thing in the sunshine, and rushing down as if some one was bending it hollow, was the beach and the irregular cluster of houses that constitutes Dymchurch. He could see the little crowd of people he had so abruptly left.
"They'll get it in the neck in real earnest one of these days, if they ain't precious careful." So you will understand the sudden apparition that surprised rather than delighted the quiet informality of Dymchurch sands.
Throughout the morning, Dymchurch held himself at remorseless study, and was rewarded by the approval of his conscience; whence, perhaps, the cheerfulness of resignation with which he made ready to keep his engagement at the Surrey house. With a half smile on his meditative face, he went out into the sunshine. He was thinking of Rosalind in Arden.
May says that Lord Dymchurch never proposed to her at all. What do you make of that?" Constance glanced at Miss Tomalin, whose eyes fell. Again she smiled. "It's very strange," she answered, with a certain air of sympathy. "That's really all I can say. It's impossible to have any opinion about such a personal matter, which doesn't in the least concern me."
Sir William Amys is to be there for a day or two, and Lord Dymchurch " "Lord Dymchurch?" The girl threw off her air of cold concentration, and shone triumphantly. "Does it surprise you, May?" "Oh, I hadn't thought of it I didn't know my aunt had invited him " "The wonder is that Lord Dymchurch should have accepted," said Mrs. Toplady, with a very mature archness.
"Would it surprise you, when you do come, to be met with the news that Lord Dymchurch has proposed to Miss Tomalin and been accepted?" "Indeed," Dyce answered, smiling, "it would surprise me very much." "Which is as much as to say that I was right, just now, in refusing to believe you. Do you know," Constance added, with fresh acerbity, "that you cut a very poor figure?
"That depends on the view one takes of life," said Dyce, in a philosophical tone which he sometimes adopted generally after dinner. "Why should one always be thinking about 'getting on? It's the vice of the time. Why should I elbow and hustle in a vulgar crowd? A friend of mine, Lord Dymchurch " "What! You have made friends with a lord?" cried Mrs. Lashmar, her face illumined. "Why not?
Westward lies the whole tumbled valley of the Weald, visible as far as Hindhead and Leith Hill, and the valley of the Stour opens the Downs in the north to interminable hills beyond Wye. All Romney Marsh lies southward at one's feet, Dymchurch and Romney and Lydd, Hastings and its hill are in the middle distance, and the hills multiply vaguely far beyond where Eastbourne rolls up to Beachy Head.
That girl on the Dymchurch beach was one of the first links, but she ceased very speedily to be real she joined the women of dreamland at last altogether. She became a sort of legendary incarnation. I thought of these dream women not only as something beautiful but as something exceedingly kind and helpful. The girls and women I met belonged to a different creation...."
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