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The Fraylings had sent their children and the majority of their servants back to Fraylingay the day after the wedding, but had decided to stay in London themselves with Major Colquhoun until Evadne wrote to relieve their anxiety, which was extreme, and gave them some information about her movements and intentions. Mr. Frayling spent most of the interval in prancing up and down.
While Evadne was trying in her slow way to see precisely what he meant by this little outbreak, they met one of the officers of the regiment escorting a very showy young woman, and as everybody in Malta knows everybody else in society, and this was a stranger, Evadne asked more, however, to oblige Colonel Colquhoun by making a remark than because she felt the slightest curiosity on the subject; "Who is that with Mr.
He was naturally frank; the continued absence of Perdita and myself became remarkable; and Raymond soon found relief from the constraint of months, by an unreserved confidence with his two friends. He related to them the situation in which he had found Evadne.
She answered "Come in!" evidently not expecting me, and when she saw who it was she was furious. "I cannot understand what you mean by such conduct!" she exclaimed. "Well, then, I'll make you understand!" I retorted. Mr. Hamilton-Wells insinuated afterward that Evadne only accepted me to save her life. But I protested against the libel.
Orton Beg, "decidedly so, and original or, rather, advanced. I believe that is the proper word now." "Oh, dear!" said Mrs. Beale. "Is that nice?" "Well," Mrs. Orton Beg answered, smiling, "I cannot say. It is not a matter of law, you know, but of opinion. Evadne is nice, however; so much I will venture to declare!" "She used to be very good to the little Hamilton-Wellses," Mrs.
Mr. and Lady Adeline Hamilton-Wells, with the inevitable twins, came constantly to Fraylingay while Evadne was in the schoolroom, and generally during the holidays, that she might be at liberty to look after the twins, whose moral obliquities she was supposed to be able to control better than anybody else.
Evadne was sitting near her father, not taking part in the conversation, but attending to it; and Lady Adeline, happening to look at her at this moment, saw something which gave her "pause to ponder." Evadne's face recalled somewhat the type of old Egypt, Egypt with an intellect added.
I see that the world is not a bit the better for centuries of self-sacrifice on the woman's part and therefore I think it is time we tried a more effectual plan. And I propose now to sacrifice the man instead of the woman." Mrs. Orton Beg was silent. "Have you nothing to say to me, auntie?" Evadne asked at last, caressingly. "I do not like to hear you talk so, Evadne.
Attending to these, and to the buildings which were at once put in progress, was the one absorbing interest of my life at that time. During the next three months I only called once on Evadne, and that was a mere formal visit which I felt in duty bound to pay her.
Everything I wished her to do seemed to be a pleasure to her; and mind and body grew rapidly so vigorous that I lost all fear for her. She said she was a new creature, and she looked it. When we had been married about a year, Sir Shadwell Rock came to pay us a visit. Evadne was quite at her best then, and I introduced her to him triumphantly.
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