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"I don't like parting with it at all, I confess, but I should dearly like to send her something. I suppose that you would not take a letter?" "You would not write one, Mr. Heigham!" "No, of course, I forget that accursed promise. Here, take the ring, and say all you can to Angela with it. You promise that you will?" "Certainly, I promise that I will say all I can." "You are very good and kind.
For some moments he was so completely overwhelmed at the idea of losing Angela for a whole long year, losing her as completely as though she were dead, that he could not answer. At length he found his voice, and said, hoarsely: "Yours are hard terms." "I cannot argue the point with you, Heigham; such as they are, they are my terms, founded on what I consider I owe to my daughter.
At that moment they were interrupted by the entrance of a little ragged boy into the hall, who timidly held out a card to the lady to whom Pigott was talking. "Do you want to find Mr. Heigham?" she said. "Because if so, this boy will show you where he is. He has sent here for a paper that he left. I found it on the verandah just now, and wondered what it was.
Heigham, I am delighted to make your acquaintance," and he shook hands with Arthur with gentle enthusiasm, as though he were the last scion of a race that he had known and loved for generations. Presently dinner was announced, and the three sat down at a small round table in the centre of the big dining-room, on which was placed a shaded lamp. It was not a cheerful dinner.
At this moment Lord Minster returned with Mrs. Carr. "How do you do, Lady Florence?" said the latter; "let me introduce you to Mr. Heigham. What, do you already know each other?" "Oh, yes, Mrs. Carr, we are old friends." "Oh, indeed, that is very charming for you." "Yes, it is," said Lady Florence, frankly. "Well, we must be off now, Florence." "All right, James, I'm ready."
And in another second she was gone, with her ravens flying after her, to receive her present and a jobation from Pigott for being late, and to eat her breakfast with such appetite as an entirely new set of sensations can give. In the garden she met her father, walking up and down before the house, and informed him that she had been talking to Mr. Heigham.
Sir John did not answer; and Arthur, glancing up to learn the reason, saw that he also was watching the approach of his wife, and that his face was contorted with a sudden spasm of intense malice and hatred, whilst his little, pig-like eyes glittered threateningly. He had not even heard the remark. Arthur would have liked to whistle; he had surprised a secret. "How do you do, Mr. Heigham?
"Oh, by the way, Lady Bellamy," said Mildred, after a pause, "I believe that you are acquainted with the young lady to whom Mr. Heigham is engaged?" She had meant to say, "to be married," but the words stuck in her throat. "Oh, yes, I know her well." "I am so glad. I am quite curious to hear what she is like; one can never put much faith in lovers' raptures, you know."
"Don't make all that noise, Mildred, you will frighten him, and if once he flies we shall never catch him in this big room." Here, fortunately for Arthur, the servant arrived with the required bottle, into which the ferocious insect was triumphantly stoppered by Miss Terry. "I am so much obliged to you, Mr. Heigham, you are a true collector."
You will trap them more securely so. If you were to warn the girl now, you would only expose them; if you wait till he has married her, you will altogether destroy them with the help of that young Heigham.
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