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Perhaps you have his photograph, miss, that you could show me?" Ann nodded smilingly she knew her Mellow, and had anticipated this request! and forthwith proceeded to descant on Eliot's various virtues and the beauty of Heronsmere until Mrs. Mellow declared that she could, as she phrased it, "picture it all as plain as if she'd seen it herself."
She extracted from Ann a full, true, and particular account of her bathing adventure, and the information that it had been the owner of Heronsmere who had come to the rescue did not appear to afford her much pleasure. "He's not here this afternoon?" She glanced quickly round the party of friends who had gathered in the pretty, low-ceiled room.
"I think it's all very interesting," pursued Miss Caroline, still intent on her own train of thought. "Here's Mr. Coventry come home at last to live at Heronsmere a very eligible bachelor and with this Mrs. Hilyard, a wealthy widow, living so near by it wouldn't be at all surprising if something came of it." The rector jumped up, laughing good-humouredly. "Caroline! Caroline!
He was abroad at the time and never even troubled to come home and have a look at his inheritance. "One thing I know will please you, and that is that we shall be near the sea. Silverquay is the name of the village, which is really a part of the Heronsmere property.
Is that the morose-looking individual who lives at Heronsmere?" inquired Brett. Ann glanced up in some surprise. "Oh, have you met him already?" "We came across him with Brian Tempest on our way here," explained Lady Susan. "The two men are rather a study in contrasts," she added. "Brian is really a great dear.
After all, there were as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and the prospective hospitality which she anticipated would emanate from Heronsmere in the near future should provide excellent opportunities for fishing. Apart from Mrs. Carberry, everybody seemed genuinely delighted at the engagement even Miss Caroline.
He rode across to Heronsmere as soon as breakfast was over, and it did not require a second glance at Eliot's haggard face to tell him that Ann was not alone in her intensity of suffering. He was appalled at the change which two days had worked in the man before him, and for an instant sheer pity almost quenched the burning intention of his errand. "You wanted to see me, Lovell?"
Rarely did Eliot Coventry put in an appearance at Oldstone Cottage at all, and if the exigencies of business matters took him there on any occasion when Robin chanced to be out, he usually contrived only to leave a note or message for him with Maria. More often than not, however, he would merely send word to him, asking him to come up and see him at Heronsmere.
Maria's ideas as to the riches with which the owner of Heronsmere was providentially endowed might be hazy, but at least she did not err on the side of underestimating them.
So that Ann had at last been reluctantly compelled to fall back on the same explanation which had served her once before that Eliot must have been detained at Heronsmere by unexpected business. But now the afternoon had brought the desired click of the gate, and she could see his tall, well-knit figure striding up the path below. She leaned out of the window and called to him: "Coo-ee!
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