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Lady Eynesford reiterated her edict of exclusion against the new Premier; Eleanor Scaife smiled and told her she would be forced to receive him. Alicia in vain sought particulars of Mr. Medland's misdeeds, and the aides-de-camp speculated curiously on the composition of the Cabinet, Captain Heseltine betting Mr. Flemyng five to two that it would include Mr.
Coxon would not have been very grateful for permission to make love to Miss Scaife; he was extremely grateful for the opportunity of recommending himself to Alicia Derosne. The Governor's sister none less became by degrees his aim and object, and when Lady Eynesford left him with Miss Scaife, hoping that Alicia would have the sense not to get in the way, Mr.
"My dear Eleanor, what is a Governor for?" demanded Lady Eynesford. "To do as he's told and subscribe to the Cup," interposed Dick Derosne. And he added, "They are having a palaver. Old Perry's been in an hour and a half." Captain Heseltine and Mr. Flemyng looked at their watches and nodded gravely. "Poor Willie!" murmured Lady Eynesford. "He'll miss his ride."
"But think how uninteresting it makes you!" protested Eleanor. "Oh, I don't agree," said Lady Eynesford. "I am studying every line of Mr. Coxon's face, and trying to find out for myself." "I told you," he said in a lower voice, and under cover of a joke Sir John was retailing to Eleanor, "that I was a bad hand at concealment."
"But all the same, very different from Miss Derosne," sneered Coxon sullenly, putting her thoughts into her mouth with a discrimination that completed her discomfiture. "I don't think there is any advantage in discussing it further," remarked Lady Eynesford, rising. "I claim to see Miss Derosne herself. I am not to be put off." "I will acquaint the Governor and my sister-in-law with your wishes.
Dick felt that the Governor would be a cold, and Lady Eynesford a thoroughly unfavourable, auditor of his views on the Medlands, but, in spite of Daisy's cruel indifference, he had taken advantage of her permission to pay her more than one visit, and he poured out his soul to his sister. His outpourings consisted of enthusiastic praises of both father and daughter.
This programme was so very different from that which Dick had planned and carried out on his own account, that Eleanor shrank from the deceit involved in acquiescence. "I'm afraid not," she said. "You see, Dick's young and hasn't got a wife of his own." "Tant mieux, he'd feel the contrast less," replied Lady Eynesford, with airy assurance. "Who did he dance with?"
"You're very practical, Sir John." "High praise again!" "Perhaps hardly meant again!" "I'm sure Lady Eynesford teaches her household the value of practicality." "Well, Mary is practical; and I suppose Dick must be called so now Miss Granger's an excellent match. Oh, I suppose we all pass muster pretty well, except Alicia." "Miss Derosne is a visionary?" "A little bit of one, I often tell her."
The outskirts of the town were reached; they met man after man who told them of a gathering crowd round the prison; they overtook more men, armed with cudgels, who slunk on one side and tried to hide their sticks. They reached the gates of Government House, and Lord Eynesford spied his wife and Alicia looking out of the windows of the lodge. "Go and tell them what's up," he said to Flemyng.
Medland spoke quickly and earnestly. Once he laughed, and Alicia's gay peal struck on her sister-in-law's ear. Lady Eynesford, as she looked after them, heard Sir John say to Eleanor, "He's a wonderful man, with a very extraordinary attraction about him. Everybody feels it who comes into personal relations with him. I know I do. And Perry has remarked the same thing to me.
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