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He bowed separately to Miss Grimston and to Diane, and, with the self-possession of a man accustomed to the various turns of drawing-room drama, he left the room. During the summer that followed these events Derek Pruyn set himself the task of stamping the memory and influence of Diane Eveleth out of his life. His sense of duty combined with his feelings of self-respect in making the attempt.
"Is that the fat young man with the big laugh?" "Yes; and one of the greatest catches in New York. Carli tells me he's wild about Marion Grimston, and I can see for myself that Mrs. Bayford is playing him against that Frenchman. She'll get the title if she can, but if not, she'll fall back on the money."
You ought to know her, too. You would, if you didn't shut yourself up in the office, away from the world." "N-no, I don't recall that I've ever met the lady. Ah, here's the note, just sit down a minute while I read it." Mr. Grimston shot back into his seat again, while Mr. van Tromp wiped his large, circular glasses.
Grimston began again, sententiously, "is one of the bits of human wreckage that have drifted down to us from the pre-revolutionary days of French society. Her grandfather, the old Comte de la Ferronaise, belonged to that order of irreconcilable royalists who persist in dashing themselves to pieces against the rising wall of democracy.
"I've had what people in my position call a good situation; but I have lost it." "Ah? I'm sorry." "I thought you would be. That's why Miss Grimston asked me to tell you the reason. She was sure you wouldn't injure me knowingly." "Naturally. I'm very much surprised that any one should think I've injured you at all.
To poor Miss Lucilla this was a new and alarming feature in the situation. If it was so, then Marion Grimston ought not to be allowed to marry him. If Diane was right and she must be right Mrs. Bayford was mistakenly urging on a match that would bring unhappiness to her niece.
Danvers, who manages the estate, he must come. And get Grimston you see I know all the names Grimston, the attorney; for though he was not employed about this will, he has been Mr. Ruthyn's solicitor a great many years: we must have Grimston; for, as I suppose you know, though it is a short will, it is a very strange one. I expostulated, but you know he was very decided when he took a view.
Then Master Grimston, rolling his haggard eyes upon the group, twice strove to speak and could not; but the third time the Father, bending down his head, heard him say in a thin voice, that seemed to float from a long way off, "I slew him ... my sin."
The others followed him and went out; but Master Grimston drew the priest aside, and said like a man in a mortal fear, "Look you, Father, all this is true the thing is a devil and why it abides with us I know not; but I cannot live so; and unless it be cast out it will slay me but if money be of avail, I have it in abundance."
"Nay, there is no need to do that," said Master Grimston in a kind of haste; "it leads nowhither it is but a room of stores." "It were a pity to leave it unvisited," said the Father and as he said the word, there came a kind of stirring from within. "A rat, doubtless," said the Father, striving with a sudden sense of fear; but the pale faces round him told another tale.
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