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Bullsom," she answered. "That was different. I was deeply indebted to Mr. Bullsom, and anxious to see him returned. That, too, was work. It is only pleasures which I have denied myself." "That," she remarked, "is the nicest in fact, the only nice thing you have said. You have changed since Enton." "I have been through a good deal," he said, wearily. She shuddered a little.
"We'll have some fun." "Really," Lady Caroom exclaimed, "Enton is the cosiest large house I was ever in. Do throw that Bradshaw away, Arranmore. The one o'clock train will do quite nicely." Lord Arranmore obeyed her literally. He jerked the volume lightly into a far corner of the room and came over to her side.
The coincidence it was nothing more, of course was curious. There followed a busy time for Brooks, the result of which was a very marked improvement in his prospects. For the younger Morrison and his partner, loth to lose altogether the valuable Enton connection, offered Brooks a partnership in their firm. Mr.
This was one of those rare occasions when he found his emotions very hard to subdue. And it had come so suddenly. "After we left Enton," Lady Caroom said, thoughtfully, "I noticed a distinct change in her. The first evidences of it were in her treatment of Sydney Molyneux. I am quite sure that she purposely precipitated matters, and when he proposed refused him definitely."
"Well, I'm not sure that she'd care to risk that," Lady Caroom answered, thoughtfully. "She told him she'd think about it, and, meanwhile, he's just as devoted as ever." They crossed the great stone hall together the hall which, with its wonderful pillars and carved dome, made Enton the show-house of the county. Arranmore's study was a small octagonal room leading out from the library.
I er I wanted to ask you a question. "Well?" "About that fellow Brooks I met at your place down at Enton. Lawyer at Medchester, isn't he? I thought that he and Sybil seemed a bit thick somehow. Don't suppose there could have been anything in it, eh? He's no one in particular, I suppose. Lady Caroom wouldn't be likely to listen to anything between Sybil and him?" Arranmore raised his eyebrows.
If he comes to me, if he will accept it without coming to me even, he can have another ten thousand a year and Enton." "You are generous," she murmured. "Generous! My houses and my money are a weariness to me. I cannot live in the former, and I cannot spend the latter. I am a man really of simple tastes. Besides, there is no glory now in spending money.
"I was perhaps wrong to judge so hastily, Lord Arranmore," she said, "and I am inclined to regret my visit to Enton. If you care to know it, I do not harbour any animosity towards you. But I cannot possibly accept this sum of money. I told Mr. Ascough so finally." "It is only justice, Miss Scott," he said, in a low tone.
Even on that terrible afternoon at Enton she had sat in the cab white and silent she had appealed to him in no way for sympathy. The waiter retreated with a bow. She shot a swift glance across at him. "I object to being scrutinized," she declared. "Is it the plainness of my hat or the depth of my wrinkles to which you object?" "Object!" he repeated. "Yes.
Brooks had ridden a bicycle from Medchester, and his trousers and boots were splashed with mud. His presence at Enton was due to an impulse, the inspiration of which he had already begun seriously to doubt. Arranmore's kindly reception of him was more than ordinarily welcome. "I am very glad to see you, Mr. Brooks," he said, holding out his hand.
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