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And I don't know what Mr. Gowan means by bringing you, for I feel sure he has brought you. I am not a baby, to be followed as if I could not take care of myself. I am going to be married to Mr. Gerald Chandos to-morrow, and we are going on the Continent for our wedding tour." She was in a high state of rebellion. It was Gowan's presence she was resenting, not Dolly's.
Ardmuirland, indeed, took some little time to recover from the dazzling visions which the coming of "the millionaire" as Val and I delighted to style him in private had called up, but in a year or so Gowan's name had become a mere memory to most of us.
Well, I shan't be in the least sorry for you! It will be a judgment!" Laurette had made a desperate attempt to interrupt Gowan's flow of words, but she might as well have tried to stop the brook. When Gowan began, she never even paused for breath. Her wrath was like a whirlwind. Laurette's three chums had turned away as if rather ashamed, and began hastily to get out books and writing-materials.
That is all we know." "And you have not the slightest clew beyond this?" "Not the slightest. He spent all his spare time with Dolly, you know; so there is not even any place of resort, or club, or anything, where we might go to make inquiries about him." Gowan's countenance fell. He felt the girl's distress keenly, apart from his own pain.
"And when the roses come, no one will see as you will how sweet she finds them. Your Dolly is n't Lady Augusta's Dolly, or Mollie's, or Ralph Gowan's, or even mine; she is the Dolly no one but her lover and her husband has ever seen or ever will see. You can get at the spark in the opal." Griffith was comforted, as he often found himself comforted, under the utterances of this wise one.
At those times, the striving within him would have been hardest; and looking up and catching Gowan's eyes, he would have started as if he had done him an injury. Then, looking at the dark road and its uncertain objects, he would have gradually trailed off again into thinking, 'Where are we driving, he and I, I wonder, on the darker road of life?
"I thought you were Sir Robert Gowan's friend, sir," said Andrew bitterly. "So I am, boy; but I am the King's servant, sworn to obey and defend him. His Majesty's commands were that Sir Robert should leave his service, and seek a home out of England. It is our duty to obey.
But a preliminary line of levels Mon Dieu! A Jap should have known better or even a yap!" With a supercilious shrug, he swung back into the buckboard and drove up to the corral. Gowan's right hand had dropped to his hip. Slowly it came up and joined the other hand in rolling a thick Mexican cigarette. But the puncher did not light his "smoke."
Val went in alone to Gowan's room; it was not for me to take any part in such an interview. It was not long before he was back again in our own apartment. Gowan's reception of him had been all that could have been desired. The man expressed sincere sorrow for his ill behavior, and begged Val's forgiveness. But what was still more satisfactory was his message to Christian and her children.
And when she raised her eyes to meet Ralph Gowan's, he saw that there was the ghost of a regretful shadow in them. She had too much to do, however, to be troubled long. Phil's friends began to drop in, one by one, and the business of the evening occupied her attention.
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