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Montacute Jones was successful in her efforts, or that Guss was enabled to found arguments on Jack's wealth which Jack was unable to oppose, or that a sense of what was due to the lady prevailed with him at last, he did marry her about a twelvemonth after the reading of the will. When the Marchioness came to town, before Popenjoy was born, he called, and was allowed to see her.
They both thought Kelly's Court rather dull; but then they had known nothing better since they had grown up, and there were some tolerably nice people not very far off, whom they occasionally saw: there were the Dillons, of Ballyhaunis, who had three thousand a-year, and spent six; they were really a delightful family three daughters and four sons, all unmarried, and up to anything: the sons all hunted, shot, danced, and did everything that they ought to do at least in the eyes of young ladies; though some of their more coldly prudent acquaintances expressed an opinion that it would be as well if the three younger would think of doing something for themselves; but they looked so manly and handsome when they breakfasted at Kelly's Court on a hunt morning, with their bright tops, red coats, and hunting-caps, that Guss and Sophy, and a great many others, thought it would be a shame to interrupt them in their career.
Accordingly the next day found us in the "City of Brotherly Love," and in a few hours we arrived at the home of my uncle, General Henry R. Guss, the proprietor of the Green Tree Hotel, who gave us a cordial reception. Inviting us into the parlor, my uncle brought in the members of his family, among them an elderly lady, who was my grandmother, as he informed me.
It had been necessary that Mr. Mildmay should take Miss Houghton down to dinner, and therefore she could not separate Guss from Jack De Baron. Anybody who understands dinner-parties will see it all at a glance. But she was convinced that Jack would devote himself to Lady George at his left hand; and so he did. "Just come up to town, haven't you?" said Jack. "Only last week."
"All the old set. Aunt Ju and Guss." "Then you were happy." "Quite so. I believe that no one knows all about that better than you do." "You ought to have been happy." "Lady George, I thought you always told the truth." "I try to; and I think you ought to have been happy. You don't mean to tell me that Miss Mildmay is nothing to you?" "She is a very old friend." "Ought she not to be more?
The fairies were far past caring whether they heard a story or not, but they listened as Naggeneen went on. "I'm after tellin' you," he said, "that if there was any way that one of us could be gettin' a soul, I'ld have had one long ago. This was the way I tried it, and a silly mortal outwitted me. Guleesh na Guss Dhu was the name that was on him.
Guss Mildmay and I have been very much thrown together; but, even had she wished it, we never could have married. We have no means." "And yet you live like rich people." "We have no means because we have lived like rich people." "You have never asked her to marry you?" "Never." "Nor made her think that you would ask her? That comes to the same thing, Captain De Baron." "How am I to answer that?
Behind these rode one with the light glinting on his silver conchos Mat Henshaw, the town Beau Brummel then the black Guss Reeve, and last of all "Ronicky" Joe on his pinto; "Ronicky" Joe, handy man at all things, and particularly guns.
"Then, Jack De Baron, you are perjured, and no gentleman." "Dear Guss, I can bear that. It is not true, you know, as I have never made you any promise which I am not ready to keep; but still I can bear it." "No promise! Have you not sworn that you loved me?" "A thousand times." "And what does that mean from a gentleman to a lady?"
"Come, Guss, this is simple folly. You know it is true; and you know, also, that there is no good whatever to be got from such truth." "If you loved me, you would like to see me." "No, I shouldn't; no, I don't; unless it could lead to something.
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