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Lord Fordyce had hardly ever spent this season away from his mother, who was a very old lady now, and deeply devoted to him; but the imperative desire to be near his adored overcame any other feeling, and he, with the Princess and her son and father, was due to arrive at Héronac on the day before Christmas Eve. He ran across Michael at the Ritz the night before he left Paris.
The latter part of the road wag most magnificent, combining the grandeur of the Alps with the splendour of tropical vegetation. "Some Kandyan prophet had foretold," Mr Fordyce informed me, "that the kingdom of Kandy would come to an end when a bullock should be driven through a certain hill, and a man on horseback should pass through a rock."
Fordyce; but all that ensued was, three weeks later, a note regretting the not having been able to call, and inviting the whole party to a great school-feast on the anniversary of the dedication of the first of the numerous new churches of Beachharbour. There was no want of cordiality on that occasion, but time was lacking for anything beyond greetings and fleeting exchanges of words.
Then he seized his cap and, calling Binko, he went off into the garden, and so on to the park and to the golf house, where, securing his professional, he played a vigorous round, and when he got back to the castle again, just before dinner, he was informed that Mr. Fordyce had left in his own motor for Edinburgh.
You told me yourself that you would rather marry old Bessie a woman of eighty-four than Violet Hatfield; and now, when I have found a much more suitable person a pretty little lady you begin to talk. My mind is made up, and there is an end of it." Mr. Fordyce interrupted. "The younger and prettier she is makes her all the more unsuitable to be used merely as a tool in your game.
"They have given me the First Bursary, father," said Robin. No one spoke, but Robin saw tears running down his mother's face. John Fordyce deliberately turned back several pages of the Bible. "We will sing," he said in a clear voice, "in the Twenty-third Psalm the whole of it! 'The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want "
'I had to come, Gladys made reply, and she kissed them both with a perfectly grave face. 'Will you do something for me, Mrs. Fordyce? 'Why, certainly, my dear. But what is the matter with you? You look as melancholy as an owl. 'Will you send a servant to Gorbals Mill, to ask your nephew to come here on his way home from business? I want to see him very particularly.
For instance, one afternoon in the course of one of the grave discussions that used to grow up between Miss Fordyce, Emily, and me, over subjects trite to the better-instructed younger generation, we got quite out of our shallow depths.
They had got to a part of the path where the woods on either side are black as night in their depths. "I don't know," she said, very low. Lord Fordyce moved nearer to her. "I wish you would let me try to take away all those somber thoughts I see sometimes in those sweet eyes." "How would you begin?" "By loving you very much and then by trying to make you love me."
I ought to have said that my grandfather brought a good account of kind Mr Fordyce, who was soon coming to England, while Lumsden, my old school-fellow, had now the chief charge of his affairs in Ceylon. I had learned much by my voyages and travels.
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