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Dartrey Fenellan had said of little Nesta once, that she had a nature pure and sparkling as mid-sea foam. Happy he who wins her! But she was one of the young women who are easily pleased and hardly enthralled. Her father strained his mind for the shape of the man to accomplish the feat. Whether she had an ideal of a youth in her feminine head, was beyond his guessing.
Mademoiselle, however, by means of a change of tone and look when Dudley Sowerby and Dartrey Fenellan were the themes, showed a too pronounced preference of the more unstable one: or rather, the man adventurous out of the world's highways, whose image, as husband of such a daughter as hers, smote the wounded mother with a chillness.
Fenellan would not call him The Inchcape Bell! She murmured this to herself. Mr. Barmby was absent for two weeks. 'Can anything have offended him? Victor inquired, in some consternation, appreciating the man's worth, and the grand basso he was; together with the need for him at the Lakelands Concert in August. Nataly wrote Mr. Barmby a direct invitation. She had no reply.
Themison was carried on by Lady Grace Halley's humourous enthusiasm for the subject to dilate and discuss and specify, all in the irony of a judicial leaning to the side of the single-minded social adventurers, under an assumed accord with his audience; concluding: 'So there's an end of Divorce. 'By the trick of multiplication, Fenellan, now reassured, was content to say.
She was not aware that she dealt a hurt until she had found a small consolation in the indulgence: for Captain Dartrey Fenellan admired this commanding figure of a woman, who could not legally say that which the woman he admired less, if at all, legally could say. 'I must leave you to interpret, Nataly remarked. Mrs. Blathenoy resented her unbefitting queenly style.
One was the card of Dartrey Fenellan, naming an early time next day for his visit; and the other was the appearance of the Rev. Stuart Rem, a welcome guest. He had come to meet his Bishop. He had come also with serious information for the ladies, regarding the Rev. Abram Posterley.
I carry them down to Lakelands to-morrow, if the City's flat. 'Keeping a secret's the lid on a boiling pot with you, Mr. Fenellan said; and he mused on the profoundness of the flavour at his lips. 'I do it. 'You do: up to bursting at the breast. 'I keep it from Colney! 'As Vesuvius keeps it from Palmieri when shaking him. 'Has old Colney an idea of it?
'Now you direct my attention to him, said Fenellan, 'the writing of the romantic history has made the texture look a trifle thready. You have a terrible eye. It was thrown to where the person stood who had first within a few minutes helped her to form critical estimates of men, more consciously to read them. 'Your brother stays in England? 'The fear is, that he's off again. 'Annoying for you.
She was to do her part: Fenellan and Colney on the surface, she below: and hospitality was to do its part, and music was impressed the innocent Concerts; his wealth, all his inventiveness were to serve; and merely to attract and win the tastes of people, for a social support to Lakelands! Merely that? Much more: if Nataly's coldness to the place would but allow him to form an estimate of how much.
'Of course, of course there are; and I could name you some. We lawyers...! 'You encounter all sorts. 'Between ourselves, Carling sank his tones to the indiscriminate, where it mingled with the roar of London. 'You do? Fenellan hazarded a guess at having heard enlightened liberal opinions regarding the sex. 'Right! 'Many! 'I back you, Mr. Carling.
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