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"A fellow must amuse himself," remarked Charlie gloomily, and with apparent unconsciousness he took a glass from Laing and drained it. "Gambling and drink what does that mean?" asked Sir Roger. "Shut up, Deane," said Charlie. Miss Bellairs rose suddenly and walked away. Her movement expressed impatience with her surroundings. After a moment Charlie Ellerton slowly sauntered after her.
"I suppose we shall go to the Bois together?" "I shall ask papa or Sir Roger to take me." "Then I'll go with Lady Deane." "I don't mind who you go with, Mr. Ellerton." "I'll take care that you're annoyed as little as possible by my presence," "It doesn't annoy me." "Doesn't it, D ?" "I don't notice it one way or the other." "Oh." "Good-by for the present, Mr. Ellerton."
The tragedy, the art of the picture, the simple, dreary grandeur of the scenery, took possession of me; and I stood gazing a long time, and fancying myself pacing the sands, and wondering whether there were shells upon it I had often longed for once only in my life to pick up shells when Lady Ellerton, whom I had not before noticed, woke me from my reverie.
Ellerton, a rich amateur, approached me very cordially. He has heard my operas in Germany, and my portrait has been hanging in his room for two years. He is the first Englishman I have seen who does not care particularly for Mendelssohn. A fine, amiable mind. Klindworth has made the pianoforte arrangement of the first act of the "Valkyrie," which he plays beautifully.
It only remained now to return to London, while breath yet stayed in my body, and lead him diplomatically to the feet of Maisie Ellerton. Then I would have ended my eumoirous task, and my last happy words would be a paternal benediction. But all the same, I had set forth to find this confounded captain and did not want to be hindered.
Weary of city life, and knowing that a home in the country would not materially interfere with the discharge of his new duties, particularly as Ellerton was within half an hour's ride of the city, young Thornton had conceived the idea of fitting up the old stone house, bequeathed to him by his grandfather, in a style suited to his abundant means and luxurious taste.
"Charlie Ellerton," said the young man with the eye-glass. "There! I told you she was a kind girl. She's trying to pull old Charlie up a peg or two. He's had the deuce of a facer, you know." "I thought he seemed less cheerful than usual." "Oh, rather.
I shall be so awfully obliged to you; so will Mr. Ellerton." "Charlie Ellerton? Not he! He's in no hurry." "What do you mean? Didn't you hear him to-day urging papa to travel straight through?" "Oh, yes, I heard that." "Well?" "You were there then." "What of that?" "He's not so pressing when you're away." "I don't understand. Why should he pretend to be in a hurry when he isn't?"
What remorse will be his if, afterwards, he discovers that what he did was not, in truth, for her real happiness! He must be on his guard against mere selfishness or mere vanity masquerading in the garb of a genuine passion. As these thoughts occurred to Charlie Ellerton he felt that he was at a crisis of his life.
Dora could spare twenty-four hours; Lady Deane and the General were mollified by conscious unselfishness; the prospect of a fresh struggle at Paris lay well in the background and was discreetly ignored; Charlie Ellerton, who had reached the most desperate stage of love, looked neither back nor forward.
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