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"And well, I suppose Robert likes it." "Dissimilia dissimilibus," shrugged Southend, fixing his glasses. "It's the only concession to appearances he ever made," sighed Lady Evenswood. "She's a lady, though." "Oh, yes. That's what makes it so funny. If she weren't " "Yes, it would all be natural enough." "But we've been wasting your time, Mr Tristram."
"I don't think he's improved since he left Blent." "Country folks always say that about their young men when they come to town," smiled Lady Evenswood. "He's learning his world, my dear. And he seems very sensible. He hasn't inherited poor Addie's wildness." "Yes, he has. But it only comes out now and then. When it does " "It won't come out with Flora," Lady Evenswood interrupted reassuringly.
Southend was well satisfied with the way in which his overture was received. Lady Evenswood was watching intently. "The idea is " said Harry slowly "I mean I don't quite gather what it is. You talk of my cousin, and then of a viscounty. The two go together, do they?" It was rather an awkward question put as bluntly as that. "Well, that did seem to be Mr Disney's view," said Southend.
Anyhow what was proposed would create a new situation and put him in a different position toward her. In brief, he would have something more on his side. "Once he was sure the proposal was agreeable to you " murmured Lady Evenswood gently. She was still very tentative about the matter, and still watchful of Harry. But Southend was not cautious or did not read his man so well.
Lady Evenswood, with a quick perception, tried to retrieve the observation. "But she likes people who are independent best," she went on. "So does Robert, if it comes to that. Indeed he never does a job for anyone." "Carries that too far in my opinion," commented Southend. The moment for diplomacy approached. But when it came to the point, Lady Evenswood suavely took the task out of his hands.
As they drove, Mina heard more of Lady Evenswood among other things, that she had known Addie Tristram as a child; this fact impressed the Imp beyond all the rest. But Lady Evenswood herself made a greater impression still.
"It went off better than I expected," said he. "It must be one of Robert's good days," said she. "But but " gasped the Imp. "He was very civil for him. He must mean to think about it, about something of the sort anyhow," Southend explained. "I shouldn't wonder if it had been in his mind," he added to Lady Evenswood. "Neither should I. At any rate he took it splendidly.
It was a shock to find that, all along, in Lady Evenswood's mind Cecily had been a step toward the peerage rather than the peerage the first step toward Cecily. "And Flora Disney has quite taken him up," Lady Evenswood pursued. "George tells me he's been to lunch there twice. George is a terrible gossip." "What does Lady Flora Disney want with him?"
Iver said nothing about his friend's bygone treachery; oddly enough it was not in the culprit's mind either. "Now, Neeld, to break this news to Janie!" said Iver. Neeld nodded once again. But of course a situation quite other than they expected awaited them at Fairholme. "You haven't mentioned it to the young man himself?" asked Lady Evenswood. "Certainly not.
But they discussed it eagerly for some minutes before agreeing that, wherever the truth lay, a viscounty could not be considered out of the way for the Tristrams legitimate and proper Tristrams, be it understood. "And that's where the match would be of decisive value," Lady Evenswood concluded. "Disney said as much evidently. So you understood, Madame Zabriska?" "I suppose so.
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