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The waiters, who probably knew his name and station, precipitated themselves forward to serve him, and with leisurely mien he ordered a recherche dinner and a pint of champagne. Stella Rawson was much interested and so were her uncle and aunt. "What a very strange-looking person," Mrs. Ebley said. "Of what nation can he be? Erasmus, have you observed him?"
Then with a charm and dignity that he was forced to admire, she drew him to the pair and placed his hand on their clasped hands, and her own over it. "See," she said, "Sasha and Stella, we both wish you all happiness and joy is it not so?" And Canon Ebley was constrained to murmur, "Yes."
Peter's. I believe I would rather go into the Pantheon. I seem to be tired of everything I ought to like to-day!" And still rebellious she got up and was taken by her uncle and aunt to the Vatican and was allowed to linger only in the parts which interested them. "I never have had a taste for sculpture," Mrs. Ebley said.
Life in the Cathedral Close where they lived in England was not highly exhilarating, and when its duties were over it contained only mild gossip and endless tea-parties and garden-parties by way of recreation. Canon and the Honorable Mrs. Ebley were fairly rich people. The Uncle Erasmus' call to the church had been answered from inclination not necessity. His heart was in his work.
And quite a number of the young ladies of Exminster, including the Bishop's second daughter, had been setting their caps at him from the moment of his arrival, so that when, by the maneuvers of Aunt Caroline Ebley, Stella found him proposing to her, she somehow allowed herself to murmur some sort of consent.
I will wish you a good-day," and he bowed again as Canon Ebley and his outraged spouse sailed from the room and, with an exclamation of suppressed fury, Eustace Medlicott followed in their wake. Then Count Roumovski laughed softly to himself and, sitting down at a writing-table, wrote a letter to his beloved. His whole plan of life was simple and direct.
"Nor I either," Mr. Medlicott returned, and at that moment the Aunt Caroline entered the room and gradually disclosed the awful truth she had arrived at from Miss Rawson's admissions. "That dreadful foreigner must he told at once we refuse to have any communication with him and Stella shall be kept locked in her room until we can leave Rome," Mrs. Ebley said sternly.
At this stage of the proceedings, it being a public room, Count Roumovski entered it serenely and, coming toward the group, made a stiff bow to each in turn. "I believe you have received my letter, sir," he said, addressing Canon Ebley, "but, as I have had no reply, I ventured to present myself without further delay "
"Indeed, sir I give you my word that you will not regret this decision," Count Roumovski said gravely. "I believe your niece and I were made for one another." "We will hope so," returned Canon Ebley, who could no longer keep up a stern resistance in the face of perfectly logical arguments and a witch of a girl purring over him and patting his cheek.
Ebley had herself been laboriously packing so as not to take Martha from her post, and orders were whispered to that faithful Abigail through Stella's letter slide to pack Miss Rawson's things at once. Stella watched these preparations serenely, and gave Martha directions as to what to put on the top.
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