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I thought you knew him awfully well," he added, surprised. Apprehension of situations was not one of his strong qualities. "Of course I do!" Laura snapped out and then laughed. "But you men! Money would tempt any of you!" "You may bet your last farthing, Lady Highford, Tristram is in love crazy, if you ask me he'd not have been so silent about it all otherwise.
Then his imagination suddenly pictured Laura Highford with her tiny mouth and pointed teeth. She had a showy little brain, absolutely no heart, and the senses of a cat or a ferret. What part of him had she appealed to? Well, thank God, that was over and done with, and he was perfectly free to make his discoveries in regard to Zara, his future wife!
And Zara saw that Tristram's eyes flashed blue steel, and that he did not like the chaff at all. So, just out of some contrariness he had been with Lady Highford all day so why should she not amuse herself, too; indeed, why should either of them care what the other did so just out of contrariness she smiled again at Lord Elterton and said: "'Then tread we a measure, my Lord Lochinvar."
"It troubles me very much, Glastonbury to go abroad and leave him looking like that. Is it her fault? Or what do you think?" "'Pon my soul, I can't say even the Crow could not unravel the mystery. Laura Highford was at Montfitchet confound her would come; can she have had anything to do with it, I wonder?"
In spite of her grief and her numbness to other things it gave her a sharp emotion. She opened it quickly and read its few cold words. Then it seemed as if her knees gave way under her, as at Montfitchet that day when Laura Highford had made her jealous. She could not think clearly, nor fully understand their meaning; only one point stood out distinctly.
Every one was so sleepy and tired on Sunday morning, after their night at Arthur's Court, that only Lady Ethelrida and Laura Highford, who had a pose of extreme piety always ready at hand, started with the Duke and Young Billy for church.
"Exactly in whom she is much more interested. Poor Tristram! He has plenty to discover, I fear." "How do you come to know about it? You are a wonder, Lady Highford always so full of interesting information!" "I happened to see them at Waterloo together evidently just arrived from somewhere and Tristram thought she was safe in Paris! Poor dear!" "You have told him about it, of course?" anxiously.
Markrute, dined here the other night. He's been very useful to the Party, in a quiet way and seems a capital fellow but Ethelrida and I have never met the niece. Of course, no one has been in town since the season, and she was not here then. We only came up, like you, for Flora's wedding, and go down to-morrow." "This is thrilling!" said Lady Highford. "An unknown bride!
"But Tristram's a tender mouth, and a bit of a bolter got to ride him on the snaffle, not the curb." Lady Highford looked down at her plate, while she gave an answer quite at variance with her own methods. "Snaffle or curb, no one would ever try to guide Lord Tancred! And what is the charming lady like? You all know her, of course?" "Why, no," said His Grace. "The uncle, Mr.
I suppose the Markrute man had got him in his power." "You don't say so!" Mrs. Harcourt gasped. She was a much simpler person than her sister. "Jimmy assured me that Lord Tancred was violently in love with her, and that was it." "Jimmy always was a fool," Lady Highford said, and as they went on to their rooms Lily Opie whispered,
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