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Webb continued hovering about the door, waiting in expectation of seeing him come out, till two o'clock in the morning, but waiting in vain: after which, concluding that he had missed him, he quitted his post. On the morrow, by very diligent enquiry, he found out Mac Fane's lodgings; but he had not been at home all night.
George Canning Fitzloom, take care of the ladies near you. Essper George! Where is Essper? St. John, who is your deputy in the wine department? Wrightson! bring those long green bottles out of the river, and put the champagne underneath the willow. Will your Ladyship take some light claret? Mrs. Fitzloom, you must use your tumbler; nothing but tumblers allowed, by Miss Fane's particular request!"
As regards many points this was not a wonder; at any rate I heard nothing of Greville Fane's having developed a new manner. She had only one manner from start to finish, as Leolin would have said. She was tired at last, but she mentioned to me that she couldn't afford to pause.
Fane's criticism of a new performance at one of the theatres, when she heard the bell, and there entered the slight, bright creature who might still have been taken for a mere girl.
After they had driven in the Cascine and around the Viali for the sunshine and air, Aurora asked suddenly: "Haven't we had enough of this?" and ordered the coachman to go home. "Why!" exclaimed Estelle, astonished, "I thought we were going to Gerald Fane's to see how he's getting along!" "No, I guess we won't.
From their position on commanding heights they had suffered but little from the fire of the French artillery, and the casualties were almost confined to Fane's brigade, the 43d Regiment, Anstruther's, and the two regiments of Ferguson's brigade that had been attacked by Brennier, and before nightfall the whole of the wounded had been brought in and attended to, the hospitals arranged, and the men far more comfortably bestowed than in the temporary quarters taken up during the heat of the conflict.
Olivia Guion's friends, and Drusilla Fane's admirals, generals, colonels, ambassadors, and secretaries of embassy they apparently were, for the most part had what seemed to him an unwonted freedom of dramatic action. Merely to hear them talked about gave him glimpses of a world varied and picturesque, from the human point of view, beyond his dreams.
If he made it a point of departure for anything at all, it could only be for a step which his whole being rebelled against taking. It was a solution of the instant's difficulties to avoid the turning to Tory Hill and go on to Drusilla Fane's. In the wind and rain and gathering darkness the thought of her fireside was cheering. She would understand him, too. She had always understood him.
Selwyn looked up to see Fane approaching; and instantly a dark flush overspread his face. "You know George Fane, don't you?" continued Harmon easily; "well, that's odd; I thought, of course Captain Selwyn, Mr. Fane. It's not usual but it's done." They exchanged formalities dry and brief on Selwyn's part, gracefully urbane on Fane's.
"I've got to have Cummins punch these again," he muttered; "or am I growing queer-legged in my old age?" As he straightened up, Miss Erroll said: "Here comes Mr. Fane now with a strikingly pretty girl. How beautifully they are mounted" smilingly returning Fane's salute "and she oh! so you do know her, Captain Selwyn? Who is she?"
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