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Arthur gone, however, his host lost all his calmness of demeanour, and, rising from his untasted meal, paced up and down the room in thought. Everything had, he reflected, fallen out as he wished. Young Heigham wished to marry his daughter, and he could not wish for a better husband.
"I don't know; till I get tired of it, I suppose. Is it nice, Madeira?" "Charming. I live there half the year." "Ah, then I can well believe that it is charming." "Mr. Heigham, you are paying compliments. I thought that you looked above that sort of thing." "In the presence of misfortune and of beauty" here he bowed "all men are reduced to the same level.
Borley, who had been solicitor to the trust during his minority. "Bless me, Heigham, how like your father you have grown!" said that legal gentleman, as soon as Arthur was ensconced in the client's chair a chair that, had it been endowed with the gift of speech, could have told some surprising stories.
"I was about to say," broke in Philip, who had naturally no desire to see more of the secrets of his life unveiled by Lady Bellamy, "that, even if I did wish to get rid of Angela, I should have little difficulty in doing so, as young Heigham, who has been stopping at the Abbey House for a fortnight or so, is head over ears in love with her; indeed, I should think it highly probable that they are at this moment engaged."
Mildred Carr's snowy bosom heaved tumultuously, and the rose-leaf hue faded from her cheeks. "You mean that I am in love with Arthur Heigham. On what do you base that belief?" "On a base as broad as the pyramids of which you were talking at dinner. Public report, not nearly so misleading a guide as people think, your face, your voice, your eyes, all betray you.
"I was determined to come and look you up as soon as I got time, but the House sat very late. However, I have got a fortnight here now, and shall see plenty of you." "A good deal too much I daresay, Lord Minster; but let me introduce you to Mr. Heigham."
Heigham will gain a little experience, whilst she will bloom into a great lady, and, like any other girl in the same circumstances, learn to adore her husband in a few months." "And what will you get, Lady Bellamy?" "I!" she replied, with a gay laugh. "Oh! you know, virtue is its own reward. I shall be quite satisfied in seeing everybody else made happy.
I put the family last, because, after all, it is she who gets married, not her family." Lady Bellamy smiled a little. "You argue well; but there is one thing that you overlook, though I am sorry to have to pain you by saying it; young Mr. Heigham is no better than he should be. I have made inquiries about him, and think that I ought to tell you that." "What do you mean?"
"Oh! it is not that, indeed; how could you think so, when only this morning we agreed to be friends?" "Well, what is it, then?" he asked, blankly. "Why, Mr. Heigham, the fact is that we that is, my old nurse and I, for my father is irregular in his meals, and always takes them by himself live so very plainly, and I am ashamed to ask you to share our mode of life.
"So, unless one of us dies before the year is up, I shall come back to be married on the 9th of June next year." "Really, my dear Heigham, your way of talking is so aggressive, that some fathers might be tempted to ask you not to come back at all; but perhaps it is, under the circumstances, excusable." "You would probably think so, if you were in my place," blurted out Arthur.
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