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It was always cropping up and being mentioned as though it were something exceedingly meritorious. "And in poor Addie's case of course there well, there wasn't," proceeded Lady Evenswood with a sigh. "So Robert feels that it might be thought " "The people with consciences would be at him, I suppose," said Southend scornfully. "But if the marriage came off " "Oh, I see!" cried the Imp.
"How are you, Cousin Sylvia?" he said, crossing to Lady Evenswood, who gave him her hand without rising. "How are you, Southend?" He turned back to Lady Evenswood. "I thought you were alone." He spoke in brusque tones, and he looked at Mina as if he did not know what she might be doing there. His appearance seemed vaguely familiar to her. "We are holding a little conference, Robert.
He also murmured something about having met a very attractive woman, a widow of thirty-five. The general result seemed to be that he had forgotten his sorrows, was well content, and a good deal more independent of his niece's society and countenance than he had been before. All this Mina told to Lady Evenswood when she went to lunch in Green Street.
"He won't come now," said Lady Evenswood. "Is the bishop nice, my dear?" "Oh, yes, quite plump and gaitery! Good-by, dear Cousin Sylvia. I wish you'd come and see me, Mr Tristram." Harry, making his little bow, declared that he would be delighted. "I like to see young men sometimes," observed the lady, retreating. "The new style," Lady Evenswood summed up, as the door closed.
He found an added, perhaps a boyish, pleasure in the fact that the affair was for the present to be a dead secret. He was against Iver too in a certain sense, and that was another spice; not from any ill-will, but because it would please him especially to show Iver that he could hold his own. It occurred to him that in case of a success he would enjoy going and telling old Lady Evenswood about it.
And you couldn't prove me wrong without opening all the windows." "And that I shouldn't do, even to you?" "Do you ever do it to yourself?" "Perhaps not," he laughed. "But once a storm blew them all in, Lady Evenswood, and left me without any screen, and without defences." "Have another storm then," she counselled. She laid a hand on his arm. "Go to Blent."
These new thoughts suited well with the visit which he paid to Lady Evenswood and gained fresh strength from it. His pride and independence had made him hesitate about going.
"Oh, and serviceable too," she corrected him, with a nod of wise experience. "Jobs are frowned at now, but many great men have started by means of them. Robert Disney himself came in for a pocket-borough." "Well, I really don't know," he repeated thoughtfully, but with no sign of anxiety or fretting. "There's lots of time, Lady Evenswood." "Not for me," she said with all her graciousness.
Yet the first would make the second so much more easy! Mr Disney had given no sign yet. There was a crisis somewhere abroad, and a colleague understood to be self-opinionated; there was a crisis in the Church, and a bishopric vacant. Lady Evenswood was of opinion that the least attempt to hurry Robert would be fatal.
Reviewing his memories of Harry Tristram, he knew that defiance was just what he had to fear. It was in the blood of the Tristrams, and prudence made no better a resistance than propriety. Harry Tristram had led Lady Evenswood to believe that he would inform himself of his cousin's state of mind, or even open direct communication with her.
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