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She won't miss me much, Lady Evenswood." "Time's everything, isn't it? Oh, you're not stupid! Think it over, Mr Tristram. Now good-by. And don't conclude I shan't think about you because it's only an hour since we met. We women are curious. When you've nothing better to do it'll pay you to study us."
"I agree, and that's just why, though I admire Disney enormously, I " "Generally vote against him on critical occasions? Yes, Robert makes so many admirers like that." "Is his work at Blinkhampton nothing?" demanded Mina. "He got in for that while he was dispossessed," smiled Southend. "I say, thank heaven he wouldn't have the viscounty!" "That would have been deplorable," agreed Lady Evenswood.
It was Harry then, and Harry only, who had really been in her thoughts; and Cecily, her friend, was to be used as a tool. There might be little ground for blaming Southend who had never seen her, or Lady Evenswood who had been brought in purely in Harry's interest. But how stood Mina, who was Cecily's friend? Yet at last a thought flashed into her mind and gave her a weapon.
"Because that sort of thing would have appealed to him. But he'd never take it from her; he wouldn't even if he was in love with her." She addressed Lady Evenswood especially. "You understand that?" she asked. "He wouldn't be indebted to her. He'd hate her for that." "Not very amiable," commented Southend. "Amiable? No!" Amiability seemed at a discount with the Imp.
And the viscounty Well, said Lady Evenswood, if Robert were once convinced, the want of precedents would not stop him; precedents must, after all, be made, and why should not Robert make them? This then, the moment when all the wise and experienced people were agreed that nothing could, should, or ought to be done, was the chance for a Tristram.
There was a gratuitous implication that Southend and the rest of the world were apt to be loquacious. "Well, then," said Southend, "I will. What we want is " After one glance at Lady Evenswood, he got it out. "What we want is a viscounty." For a moment Mr Disney sat still. Then again he rose slowly. "Have I tumbled into Bedlam?" he asked.
"Oh, there are precedents. It was done in the Bearsdale case." "There was a doubt there." Lady Evenswood knew all about the Bearsdale case; though it was ancient history to Southend, she had danced with both the parties to it. "The House was against the marriage unanimously." But he did not deny the doubt. "Well, what are you going to do?" she asked. "It would be necessary to approach Disney."
She heard him say, half under his breath, "Damned persistent little woman!" before he vanished through the door. She turned to her companions, her face aghast, her lips quivering, her eyes dim. The magician had come and gone and worked no spell; her disappointment was very bitter. To her amazement Southend was radiant and Lady Evenswood wore an air of gratified contentment. She stared at them.
Still looking past him, Lady Evenswood sat laughing quietly. Even on Southend's face came an uneasy smile, as he too looked toward the door. After a moment's furious staring at the two Harry faced round. The door had been softly and noiselessly opened to the extent of a couple of feet. A man stood in the doorway, tugging at a ragged beard and with eyes twinkling under rugged brows.
Matters would have been rather better if he had consented to look just a little like it. As it was, her head was in a whirl. Lady Evenswood called him "Robert" too! Nothing about Lady Evenswood had impressed her as much as that, not even the early acquaintance with Addie Tristram. "Well then, what's the girl like?" asked Disney. "Robert, don't frighten Madame Zabriska." "Frighten her?
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