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I never heard of your marriage." "We have been married for eight years," she said with a smile. "It must be at least ten since I saw you last," he said. "This girl of mine Sheila must have been at school in those days. You never met her?" Maud turned to the girl. "I don't think we have ever met before," she said. "Is this your first visit to Fairharbour?" "My first visit, yes."
"Oh, was your mother a rotter?" said Toby, with sudden interest. He nodded. "We don't talk about her much, Maud and I. She married a second time a brute of a man who used to run the Anchor Hotel. They went to Canada, and she died." "The Anchor Hotel!" said Toby. "That place at Fairharbour down by the shore?" "Yes, Maud and I were there too at first.
Do you know old Bishop is going to clear out and go and live in Fairharbour? I shall be left alone then. It's rather beastly living alone, you know, darling." "You haven't tried it yet," said Toby. "No. But I know what it'll feel like. I shall hate it." Bunny spoke with gloomy conviction. Toby suddenly laughed. "No one to grouse to! It would be rather dull certainly.
There had always been in Bunny qualities that appealed to him very strongly, and it was in a large measure due to his influence that those qualities had ripened as they had. He did not accompany Maud and Toby down to Fairharbour, for business kept him at the Stables. "Bring him back with you!" he said to his wife at parting, and she smiled and promised. Bunny was never difficult to persuade.
And with that lightly he moved away among his guests, leaving a trail of merriment wherever he went, save where the boy and girl stood together in the bows in a silence that neither seemed able to break. That night Fairharbour Bay looked like a velvet bed on which glittered many jewels.
Shall I tell you how you can best keep that somewhat rash oath of yours?" "Well?" The word fell brief and uncompromising. Larpent's face was as carved granite. Saltash thrust forth a sudden hand and took him by the shoulder. "Just by effacing yourself, mon vieux," he said lightly. "Go back to The Blue Moon, take her to Fairharbour, and await my orders there!"
"I always leave that sort of thing to the busybodies who enjoy it." "What a good idea!" said Green. "Do you know I never thought of that?" "Tell me about the cricket match!" Juliet said, intervening. "Who is playing?" He gave her a glance of quizzical understanding. "Oh, that's a village affair too Little Shale versus Fairharbour, most of them fisher-lads, all of them sports.
Yet wherever he went he could always command a welcome at least from the feminine portion of the community who declared that Charles Rex could not be judged by ordinary standards; he was a law unto himself. Even Bunny did not know where he was on that hot afternoon in mid-July when all Fairharbour gathered to watch a match between the regular team and the visitors.
The party that gathered on the quay at Fairharbour on the hot July day when Saltash's new yacht, The Blue Moon lay awaiting her christening was of a very gay description. The yacht herself was decked with flags, and the hotel facing the quay, The Anchor, was also decorated with bunting.
"You've not seen him play cricket yet, Miss Moore. He's a positive tornado on the cricket-ground. To-morrow's Saturday, isn't it? Where are you playing, Dick?" His good-humour was evidently fully restored. He slapped a hand on Dick's shoulder with the words. Mrs. Fielding's lips turned downwards at the action. "We are playing the Fairharbour crowd, sir, on Lord Saltash's ground," said Green.
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