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Therefore Mr Henry Gowan would have clouded Clennam's mind, and would have been far oftener present to it than more agreeable persons and subjects but for the great prudence of his decision aforesaid.
But when she did discover that such was the fact she blushed all over, and looked up at Ralph Gowan in some naïve distress. "I did n't know any one was coming," she said, "and I was so comfortable that I fell asleep. It was the cushions, I think."
Gowan was to fetch and carry for them and take the horses down to the pool for water at night. Within half an hour after breakfast the party was jogging away from camp, fully equipped for the great undertaking. Gowan was afoot. His horse, as well as the regular pack animals, was heavily loaded with stores. He walked with Isobel, who had insisted that Ashton should ride her pony.
Frank did not know how he got out of the room, for his head was in a whirl, and he did not thoroughly come to himself till he had been seated for some time by his mother's couch and had told her all that had passed. But somehow Lady Gowan did not look happy, and when she parted from her son there was a wistful look in her eyes which told of a greater trouble than that of which the boy was aware.
"Amen to that," said the doctor huskily; and he pulled out his snuff-box, and took three pinches in succession, making himself sneeze violently as an excuse for taking out his great red-and-yellow silk handkerchief and using it to a great extent. "Hah!" he said at last, as he looked across at Frank, with his eyes quite wet; "and poor old Robert Gowan!
"Why," he cried, "it's breakfast-time! I must have been asleep after all." Then he stood looking back into yesterday, for the evening's proceedings came to him with a flash. "A Jacobite!" he said aloud; "and those heads upon the top of the gate!" It was a bright morning; but now it seemed to Frank Gowan that the world had suddenly turned back.
He knew that Lady Gowan would not injure the mistaken lad; but still there was the risk of danger following. Besides, he had to some extent confided in his father, and would probably say more; so that if it was right that Lady Gowan should know, his father would speak.
"What I vote," said Gowan, "is that each bedroom should have a show of its own, ask the others to come as audience, charge admission, and wangle the cash that way." "There'd be some sport in that!" agreed Lilias. "It's great!" declared Dulcie. "You bet it will catch on!" purred Prissie. Gowan's scheme undoubtedly caught on. It was so attractive that there was no resisting it.
Andrew turned away in bitter contempt and rage, for strong in his determination not to be stung into a fresh quarrel, the boy he addressed, as soon as he heard his companion begin to reiterate his assertion that Sir Robert Gowan had gone over to the Pretender's side, turned slowly away, and, with his elbows once more resting on the window-sill, thrust a finger into each ear, and stopped them tight.
"Thank goodness!" exclaimed Gowan, when they were safely out of earshot of the study door. "I never dreamt of such an awful thing as Miss Walters offering to turn up! Why, we couldn't have had any fun at all!" "We'd have had to act Shakespeare, or something stilted out of a book!" shuddered Edith. "I should simply shut up if any of the mistresses were looking on," protested Dulcie.
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