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Lucy refused him." "Indeed," replied Sir Henry, gazing at Lucy's glowing face, at the smile that hovered round her lips. Lady Verner resumed "She refused him in the most decidedly positive manner that you can imagine. She has refused also one or two others. They were not so desirable in position as Lord Garle; but they were very well. And her motive I never have been able to get at.
Lady Mary Elmsley was rejected Lionel had married in direct defiance of everybody's advice and Lucy was open to offers. Open to offers, as Lady Verner supposed; but she was destined to find herself unpleasantly disappointed. One came forward with an offer to her. And that was no other than the Earl of Elmsley's son, Viscount Garle.
"I insist upon it, Lucy, that you recall your unqualified denial," Lady Verner was saying. "If you will not accept Lord Garle immediately, at any rate take time for consideration. I will inform Lord Garle that you do it by my wish." "I cannot," replied Lucy in a firm, almost a vehement tone. "I you must not be angry with me, Lady Verner indeed, I beg your pardon for saying it but I will not."
Lucy looked up in surprise. Sir Henry in a sort of puzzled wonder. "When she refused Lord Garle, whom she acknowledged she liked, and forbade him to entertain any future hope whatever, I naturally began to look about me for the cause. I could only come to one conclusion, I am sorry to say that she cared too much for another." Lucy sat in an agony; the scarlet of her face changing to whiteness.
"I have brought you a visitor, Sibylla," said he, in his unceremonious fashion, without any sort of greeting to anybody. "Come in, doctor." It caused quite a confusion, the entrance of Dr. West. All were surprised. Lionel rose, Lucy rose; Lord Garle and Decima came forward, and Sibylla sprang towards him with a cry. Lady Verner was the only one who retained entire calmness.
Sarah Bates she saith yt when first ye garl was taken with strang fits she was sent for to Danil Wescots house & she found ye garle lieing upon ye bed.
What did you say to Lord Garle?" "I told Lord Garle that I could not marry him; that I should never like him well enough for he said, if I did not care for him now, I might later. But I told him no; it was impossible. I like him very well as a friend, but that is all." "Why don't you like him?" repeated Lady Verner.
She obstinately protests that she will not. I cannot think what can be her motive for rejection; almost any girl in the county would jump at Lord Garle." "I suppose so," returned Lionel, pulling at a hole in his glove. "I must get you to speak to her, Lionel. Ask her why she declines. Show her " "I speak to her!" interrupted Lionel in a startled tone. "I cannot speak to her about it, mother.
The first year of Lucy's arrival the year of Lionel's illness, Lord Garle had been away from the neighbourhood; but somewhere about the time of Sibylla's return, he had come back to it. Seeing a great deal of Lucy, as he necessarily did, being so much at Lady Verner's, he grew to esteem and love her.
Perhaps the first truly severe glance that Lionel Verner ever gave his wife he gave her then. Disdaining any defence off his sister, he stood, haughty, impassive, his lips drawn in, his eyes fixed sternly on Sibylla. Decima remained quiet under the insult, save that she flushed scarlet. Lord Garle did not. Lord Garle spoke up again, in the impetuosity of his open, honest nature.
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