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We believe Mr Disney would, under the circumstances I have suggested, be prepared to recommend a viscounty, and that there would prove to be no difficulties in the way." The last words had, presumably, reference to the same quarter that Lady Evenswood had once described by the words, "Somebody Else." They watched him as he digested the proposal, at last made to him in a tolerably plain form.
"It was done in the Bearsdale case," suggested Lady Evenswood. "Of course there was a doubt there " "Anyhow a barony but a viscounty would be more convenient," murmured Southend. Mina was puzzled. These mysteries were beyond her. She had never heard of the Bearsdale case, and she did not understand why in certain circumstances a viscounty would be more convenient.
"Oh, very well," smiled Lady Evenswood. A long life had taught her that only facts convince, and that they often fail. The Blent was on fire indeed, and Mina Zabriska occupied a position rich in importance, prolific of pleasure. Others, such as Iver and Miss S., might meet Mr Gainsborough as he took timid rambles; they could extort little beyond a dazed civility.
"Her successor. My cousin Cecily's very like her." Lady Evenswood was more struck by the way he spoke than by the meaning of what he said. She wanted to say "Bravo," and to pat him on the back; he had avoided so entirely any hesitation or affectation in naming his cousin Addie Tristram's successor who had superseded him. "She talks and moves and sits and looks at you in the same way.
Southend was working quietly; aided by Jenkinson Neeld, he had prepared an elaborate statement and fired it in at Mr Disney's door, himself retreating as hastily as the urchin who has thrown a cracker. Lady Evenswood was trying to induce her eminent cousin to come to tea.
"You know him very well, my dear?" "Yes, I I came to." Mina paused, and suddenly blushed at the remembrance of an idea that had once been suggested to her by Major Duplay. "And I'm very fond of her," she added. "In the deadlock," said Southend, "I think you'll have to try my prescription, Lady Evenswood." "You think that would be of use?" "It would pacify this pride of Master Harry's perhaps."
This dark reference to the Highest Quarters caused Southend to nod thoughtfully: they discussed the probable attitude a theme too exalted to be more than mentioned here. "Anyhow the first thing is to sound Disney," continued Southend. "I'll think about it after I've seen the young man," Lady Evenswood promised. "Have you any reason to suppose he likes his cousin?"
He frowned for a moment; it was odd not to be able to ask people there, just too as he was awaking to the number of people there were in the world worth asking. "There never was anybody in the world like her, and there never will be," Lady Evenswood went on. "I used to think that; but I was wrong." The smile that Mina Zabriska knew came on his face. "You were wrong? Who's like her then?"
If it were Blent, it was now Blent only as a scene, a frame, a background. When he pictured Blent, Cecily was there; if he thought of her elsewhere, the picture of Blent vanished. He was in love with her then; and what was the quality that Lady Evenswood had praised in a lover? Let him cultivate it how he would and the culture would be difficult yet it would not serve here.
"That's the only excuse for all of us, I suppose," sighed Lady Evenswood. "Not that I like the boy particularly," added Southend. "Is there anything?" asked Mina. The appeal was to the lady, not to Southend. But he answered chaffingly: "Possibly just possibly the resources of the Constitution " The bell of the front door sounded audibly in the morning-room in which they were.
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