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His plight became more pitiable as the interview proceeded, and when he rose to go, he grew as red as a turkey-cock and began to sputter. I went to his rescue. "It's very kind of you to have come to see me, Ellerton," I said, "but if I don't call yet awhile to pay my respects to your wife, I hope you'll understand, and not attribute it to discourtesy."
Oh, perhaps," she answered, with the same nervous little laugh, "but not quite led astray. I'm going on." All that evening Miss Bellairs was not observed and Deane watched her very closely to address a word to Charlie Ellerton; even 'good-night' was avoided by a premature disappearance and unexpected failure to return.
I believe you're in love with her still." "Well, you as good as told me I wasn't fit to black Ashforth's boots." "Anyhow he wouldn't have have have tried to make a girl care for him when he knew she cared for somebody else." "Hang it, it seems to me Ashforth isn't exactly immaculate. Why, in Switzerland " "Never mind Switzerland, Mr. Ellerton, please." A silence ensued.
"I was wishing my Jim good night at the gate, just before father came home, when a man riding by pulled up and asked the road to Ellerton Grange." "Did you make him out, Nance?" I asked. "Not much of him, sir, but the moon shone on his face when he took his hat off to wipe his forehead, and it looked for all the world like an addled duck-egg." "Well put, Nance," said I, laughing.
"We will have no more midnight strolls, Mr. Stanford," said Rose, sharply; "and you see quite as much of me as I wish you to see. My lord I beg your pardon were you addressing me?" She turned from Stanford, sitting beside her and talking under the cover of the clatter of spoons and knives, and flashed the light of her most dazzling smile upon Lord Ellerton, sitting opposite.
I had never seen her betray emotion before during all the years of our friendship. The look and the tone of her voice moved me. I expressed my sympathy and my readiness to do anything in my power to snatch the infatuated boy from the claw and fang of the syren and hale him to the forgiving feet of Maisie Ellerton.
Sir Roger had predicted "a jolly lunch," but, in its early stages, the entertainment hardly earned this description. Something was wrong somewhere; Dora started by refusing, very pointedly, to sit near Charlie Ellerton; and yet, when she found herself between Ashforth and Laing, she was absent, silent, and melancholy. Charlie, on the other hand, painfully practised a labored attentiveness to Mary Travers which contrasted ill with his usual spontaneous and gay courtesy. Miss Bussey wore an air of puzzled gravity, and Laing kept looking at her with a calculating eye. He seemed to be seeking the best grip. Lady Deane and the General, engrossed in a tête-
"For you see," he said, "I am a sort of protege, both on my own account and on Lord Lynedale's Ellerton, he is now you know he is just married to the dean's niece, Miss Staunton and Ellerton's a capital fellow promised me a living as soon as I'm in priest's orders. So my cue is now," he went on as we walked down the Strand together, "to get ordained as fast as ever I can."
He had always thought that that sort of girl had no attractions for him, just as Mary had despised 'butterfly-men' like Charlie Ellerton. Well, they were wrong. But here, oddly enough, John generally swore heartily and Mary always began to search for her handkerchief.
Marcella was hard to tame, and when she went to tea at the Rectory Mrs. Ellerton, who was refined and sensible, did not know what to make of her, though in some unaccountable way she was drawn to and interested by the child. But with the expansion of her thirteenth year there suddenly developed in Marcie's stormy breast an overmastering absorbing passion for these two persons.
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