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Houghton, and a gentleman whom at that time she did not know to be Lady George's father. This was early in March, when equestrians in the park are not numerous. Guss stood for a moment looking at them, and Jack De Baron took off his hat. But Jack did not stop, and went on talking with that pleasant vivacity which she, poor girl, knew so well and valued so highly.
What's the use of coming back to the old thing, Guss?" "Money, money, money!" "Nothing more unfair was ever said to anyone. Have I given any signs of selling myself for money? Have I been a fortune hunter? No one has ever found me guilty of so much prudence. All I say is that having found out the way to go to the devil myself, I won't take any young woman I like with me there by marrying her.
One of Will's main reasons for visiting the East was to look up our only living relatives on mother's side Colonel Henry R. Guss and family, of Westchester, Pennsylvania. Mother's sister, who had married this gentleman, was not living, and we had never met him or any of his family. Ned Buntline accompanied Will on his trip to Westchester.
She never really liked poor Guss, nor perhaps does the Captain. But there have been no quarrels, at any rate, no public quarrels, and Jack has done his duty in a manner that rather surprised his old acquaintances. But he is a much altered man, and is growing fat, and has taken to playing whist at his club before dinner for shilling points.
Would it not be better that he should go away and see her no more? The very tone in which the verger had spoken of Miss Mary had thrown to the winds those doubts which had come from the teaching of Adelaide Houghton and Guss Mildmay. If she had been as they said, would even her father have felt for her as he did feel, and been carried away by his indignation at the sound of an evil word?
"Well; you can't know that," said Frank rather pettishly, "so you'd better please yourselves." "Oh, but you must know what she likes," continued Guss; "I'm for this," and she, displayed a pattern showing forth two gorgeous macaws each with plumage of the brightest colours. "The colours are so bright, and the feathers will work in so well."
"But why do they give prizes to young men?" "Because the young men have stood up for the old women. Why don't you go and get a prize?" "I had to be here instead." "Had to be here, sir!" "Yes, Guss; had to be here! Isn't that about it? When you tell me to come, and tell me that I am a coward if I don't come, of course I am here." "And now you are here, what have you got to say for yourself?"
"We should have seven hundred and fifty pounds a year," said Guss, who had made her calculations very narrowly. "Well, yes; and no doubt we could get enough to eat at such a place as Dantzic." "Dantzic! you always laugh at me when I speak seriously." "Or Lubeck, if you like it better; or Leipsig. I shouldn't care the least in the world where we went.
If he could bring himself to accept this as his fate he would be saved a deal of trouble. Spooning at Killancodlem, after all, would not be bad fun. He almost told himself that he would marry Miss Green, were it not that he was determined not to be dictated to by that old harridan. Many people came and went at Rudham Park, but among those who did not go was Guss Mildmay.
"And this is to be the end?" "Well, I think so really." She thumped her hand upon the head of the sofa as a sign of her anger. "Of course we shall always be friends?" "Never," she almost screamed. "We'd better. People will talk less about it, you know." "I don't care what people talk. If they knew the truth, no one would ever speak to you again." "Good bye, Guss."
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