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"I am not wishing for a dram, Miss Honnor, so much as I am glad to see you back again, ay, and looking so well!" "Mr. "Well, seldom," he said. "You see, I have only the one evening in the week; and I have generally some engagement or other." "I should like to send you a salmon, if it would be of any use to you," she went on to say.
This was all very well; but when the comic man took possession of the stage, Lionel instead of going off to his dressing-room to glance at an evening paper or have a chat with some acquaintance remained in the wings, looking on with an indescribable loathing. This hideous farcicality seemed more vulgar than ever? what would Honnor Cunyngham think of his associates?
But at the same moment there was a glimmer of a gray dress in the twilight of the hall; and the next moment Honnor Cunyngham appeared on the doorstep, the morning light shining on her smiling face. "Mr.
I'm going to light a pipe; but, mind, we sha'n't stop here very long. You'd better put in us men at once; and then you can draw in the ladies and the game and the luncheon at your leisure." "And if you want me, Rose," Honnor Cunyngham said, "please put me in at once, too; for I'm going away back to the Horseshoe Pool."
"What a pretty girl that Miss Ross is!" said the younger of the two ladies, incidentally. "But she is not English, is she? I thought I could detect a trace of foreign accent here and there." "No, she is Italian," Lionel made answer. "Her name is really Rossi Antonia Rossi but her intimate friends call her Nina." "What a beautiful voice she has!" Miss Honnor continued. "So fresh and pure and sweet.
The next moment Nina had passed on silently, like a ghost, and had disappeared in the dusk behind some scenery. "When shall you be back in Strathaivron, Miss Honnor?" he asked. "In the spring, I suppose, for the salmon-fishing," she made answer.
Sometimes a swift glimmer of sunlight smote down on the swinging current; but these flashes were brief, for the louring clouds were still being driven over from the west, and no one could tell what the day would bring forth. "What will Miss Honnor do in a spate like that?" Lionel inquired of the head keeper. "Will she go out at all?"
"Miss Honnor says will you hef a cast, sir? There's some clouds will be over soon." "Oh, no, thank you, I could not dream of interrupting her," Lionel said; and then it occurred to him that he ought to go and thank the young lady herself for this frank invitation. "I I'll go along and tell her so."
Sir Hugh had also been put out at losing the best part of the morning; and Captain Waveney, who was a dapper little man, full of brisk spirits, did not care to talk to silent persons. As for Lionel, he was certainly very nervous and anxious; but none the less resolved to remember and act upon Honnor Cunyngham's advice.
So Lionel set to work to form a seat for Miss Honnor, out of some bracken that the gillies had cut and brought along; and also he exclusively looked after her to Miss Georgie Lestrange's chagrin; for Lord Rockminster was too lazy to attend to any one but himself, and what girl likes being waited on by her brother when other young men are about?
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