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"Think what she's gone through. I've noticed just the same in Mr. Ellerton, but " "You hope to restore him soon?" "Oh, well, I expect Miss Bellairs what a pretty girl she is, John will soon revive too, now she is with you again. John, have; you observed anything peculiar in Aunt Sarah's manner?" "To tell you the truth, I fancied she was rather short with me once or twice at dinner."
I flung my arms round his neck and caressed him, and in those anxious minutes in the doorway of Ellerton Grange he was comrade and sweetheart to me, and comforted my spirit greatly. Footsteps and a voice within made me turn my head. A man came at a run down the stairs and along the hall. After him the old serving-man hastened, lantern in hand, as best he could. "Sir James Blount?" said I.
Accordingly, for several weeks, the people of Ellerton were kept in a constant state of anxiety, watching, wondering and guessing, especially Miss Olivia Macey, who kept a small store in the outskirts of the village, and whose fertile imagination supplied whatever her neighbors lacked in actual knowledge of the proceedings at "Greystone Hall," as Judge Thornton called his place of residence.
"Of secret engagements?" she said calmly. "We do indeed." "Besides it's a bore. I couldn't go with Miss Bellairs to the theatre to-night, because she said it would look too marked." "Yes, and Mr. Ellerton said that if he dined here he might as well announce our engagement from the statue of Strasburg."
Sir Roger had seized on Laing's champagne and was pouring it out. He stopped now, and looked at Dora. A sudden gleam of intelligence glanced from her eyes. Rushing up to him, she whispered, "You did it all? It was all a hoax?" He nodded. "And why?" "Ask Charlie Ellerton," he answered. "Oh, but Mr. Ashforth and Mary Travers are so angry!" "With one another?" "No, with us."
Leaning on the arm of Lord Ellerton, Miss Danton came up smilingly. "Are you two plotting treason, that you sit there with such solemn faces all the evening?" she asked. "You have guessed it," replied her lover; "it is treason. Doctor, I'll think of what you have been saying." He arose.
"I believe she is isn't pleased at at what's happened. She hasn't taken much to Mr. Ellerton, and you know she liked you so much, that I think she still wants you as one of the family." John laughed: then he leant forward and said in a low voice: "Have you settled anything about dates?" "No. Mr. Ellerton well he didn't introduce the subject: so of course I didn't. Have you?" "No, we haven't.
I shall read it all right, you know." "I think you ought," said she, rising, and leaving him to wonder whether she had "meant anything." He gave himself a little shake, as though to escape from the atmosphere of seriousness which she had diffused about him, and looked round. A little way off he saw Dora Bellairs and Charlie Ellerton sitting side by side. His brow clouded.
Then Charlie came up very close and whispered: "Are you broken-hearted, Dolly?" She turned her face away with a blush. "Are you, Dolly?" "I'm very much ashamed of myself," she murmured. "Oh, Mr. Ellerton, not just yet!" and in deference to her entreaty Charlie had the grace to postpone what he was about to do. When the supper was ready Sir Roger Deane looked round the table inquiringly.
I took him by the arm and dragged him inside the box. "Agatha," said I, "leave those confounded dogs for a moment and attend to serious matters. This young man has not come up to see either of us, but to obtain our congratulations. He's going to marry Maisie Ellerton." "Tell me all about it," said Agatha intensely interested. A load of responsibility rolled off my shoulders like Christian's pack.
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