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She put that point about the viscounty, which puzzled her, first of all. It alone was enough to fire Cecily to animation. Then she led up, through Lady Evenswood, to Mr Disney himself, confessing however that she took the encouragement which that great man had given on faith from those who knew him better than she did.
I think I should like you to bring him to see me." For forty years such an intimation from Lady Evenswood had enjoyed the rank of a command; Lord Southend received it with proper obedience. "The solution I spoke of has occurred to some of us," he went on. "He's poor now, but with that he could make a marriage. The case is very exceptional " "So is what you propose, George."
Mina had grown distrustful of his intelligence, and her tone showed it. "I thought you might like to come and see a friend of mine, who is kind enough to be interested in Harry Tristram." He added, with the consciousness of naming an important person, "I mean Lady Evenswood." "Who's she?" asked the Imp curtly.
Mina thought great things of the girl, and even greater, if vaguer, of the title. "I should just think so," she replied complacently. There was a limit to the perversity even of the Tristrams. "We mustn't put it too baldly," observed Southend, dangling his eyeglass. "Oh, he'll think more of the thing itself than of how we put it," Lady Evenswood declared.
I was amazed to see it." He had said not a word of this to anybody since he left Blent. Lady Evenswood, studying him very curiously, began to make conjectures about the history of the affair, also about what lay behind her visitor's composed face; there was a hint of things suppressed in his voice. But he had the bridle on himself again in a moment.
And Lady Evenswood had made up her mind that she would find a way of seeing Mr Disney soon, and throw out a cautious feeler. Everything would have to be done very carefully, especially if the marriage with the cousin were to be made a feature of the case. But her resolve, although not altered, was hampered by a curious feeling to which her talk with Harry had given rise.
"As things stand, I can never go to Blent, I can go only to Blinkhampton." "What does little Mina Zabriska say to that?" "Oh, everything that comes into her head, I suppose, and very volubly." "I like her," said the old lady with emphasis. "Is there such a thing as an absolute liking, Lady Evenswood? What's pleasant at one time is abominable at another.
Southend had received an incoherent but decidedly despairing letter from Mina Zabriska. He put it in the fire, saying nothing to Lady Evenswood, and nothing, of course, to Mr Disney. In the end there was perhaps no absolutely necessary connection between the two parts of the scheme that which concerned the lady, and that which depended on the Minister.
"Yes, I think I've launched uncle," said she complacently, "and now I shall devote myself to the Tristrams." "You've been doing that for a long time, my dear." "Yes, I suppose I have really," she laughed. "I've been a sort of Miss Swinkerton I wish you knew her! Only I devoted myself to one family and she does it for all the neighborhood." Lady Evenswood looked at her with a kindly smile.
This again was in patent incongruity with Blinkhampton and smelt wofully strong of Blent. Lady Evenswood encouraged Harry to converse with the visitor. "We're a little quieter," she was saying. "The crisis is dormant, and the bishop's made, and Lord Hove has gone to consult the Duke of Dexminster which means a fortnight's delay anyhow, and probably being told to do nothing in the end.
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