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Lady Findon would, I'm sure, be glad to make your acquaintance. St. James's Square 102. All right' as Fenwick, colouring violently, stammered an acceptance 'we shall expect you. Aurevoir! I'm afraid it's no good to ask you! The last words were addressed smilingly to Watson, as Lord Findon, with outstretched hand, passed through the door, which Cuningham opened for him.
There was a shepherd the other day up at Findon Fair who had come from the east by Lewes with sheep, and who had in his eyes that reminiscence of horizons which makes the eyes of shepherds and of mountaineers different from the eyes of other men. He was occupied when I came upon him in pulling Mr. Fulton's sheep by one hind leg so that they should go the way they were desired to go.
'Write to the old boy' so Cuningham had advised again and again 'get something definite out of him. But Fenwick had once or twice torn up a letter of the kind in morbid pride and despair. Suppose he were rebuffed? That would be an end of the Findon connexion, and he could not bring himself to face it. He must keep his entrée to the house; above all, he clung to the portrait and the sittings.
And especially would he take it ill that Fenwick had allowed him to run on with his diatribes against matrimony as though he were talking to a bachelor. Then the lie about the picture. It had been the shy, foolish impulse of a moment. But how explain it to Lord Findon?
'There is no reason, I think, why we should carry this conversation further. I will let Miss Morrison know that I have communicated with you. 'No need, said Fenwick, interrupting him. 'I shall see her first thing in the morning 'And' resumed Welby, lifting a book and letting it fall uncertainly 'if there is anything I can do with Lord Findon for instance
So that when Lord Findon fell into a discussion with the Ambassador of Irving's Hamlet and Othello, then among the leading topics of London when the foreigner politely but emphatically disparaged the English actor and Lord Findon with zeal defended him who should break into the august debate but this strong-browed, black-eyed fellow, from no one knew where, whose lack of some of the smaller conventions had already been noticed by a few of the company.
The town was in the hands of the Russians, and they had cut the wires. The long charm was broken, and the Isle Inviolate was inviolate no more. The next telegram from the North came from Findon, and was published in London just before ten o'clock on the following morning. It ran thus Findon, N.B., 9.15.
Covt. to suffer recovery to enure as to Findon Manor, etc. 90b. To the use of him the said Edward Shelley and of the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, and for lack of such issue. To the use of the heirs male of the body of John Shelley, Esqre., sometime of Michael Grove, deceased, father to the said Edward Shelley, etc.
'Well, of course, we don't like him! but then Uncle Findon does. And if he didn't, it's Eugénie that matters isn't it? only Eugénie! At her age, you can't be choosing her husband for her! Well, I never, never thought Eugénie's so close! she'd make up her mind to marry anybody! And she rattled on, in so much excitement that Welby hastily and urgently impressed discretion upon her.
'By Jove! said Findon, turning on the artist with animation, 'where did you learn all this? 'I've been painting a good many years, said Fenwick, his cheeks aglow. 'But I've got on a lot this last six months. 'I suppose, in the country, you couldn't get properly at the model? 'No. I've had no chances. 'Let's all pray to have none, said Cuningham, good-naturedly.
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