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Caryll, not even beginning to understand. "Since ten minutes ago," was the callous answer that first gave that household the news of my lord's passing. There was a movement, a muttering among the servants. Old Humphries broke through the group by the door, his heavy chops white and trembling, and in that moment Hortensia turned, awe-stricken, to ask her ladyship was this true.
Yet, when all is said, 'tis not she is to blame." "Am I?" "My love! Was it suggested?" "I marvel it was not. Indeed, I marvel! Oh, Hortensia is not to blame, the sweet, pure dove! What is she, then?" "To be pitied, ma'am," said his lordship, stirred to sudden anger, "that she should have lent an ear to your disreputable son." "My son?
You may like to hear," she added, as Polly was starting away, "that I had good news from Turkey this morning. MY sister is better; they think she is going to get well." "Oh, I'm so glad!" beamed Polly. Then impulsively, she put up her arms, and the next minute they were around the neck of Miss Hortensia Price.
"What do you mean?" she asked. "You love him!" he growled. "Pah! I see it in your eyes in your tremors that you do. It is for him that you are afraid, is't not?" "Why do you mock me with it?" she inquired with dignity. "I do not mock you, Hortensia. Answer me! Is it true that you love him?" "It is true," she answered steadily. "What is't to you?" "Everything!" he answered hotly. "Everything!
"Wait within call." They departed, and Mr. Caryll remained seated for all that her ladyship was standing; it was as if by that he wished to show how little he was minded to move. Her ladyship's eye fell upon Hortensia. "Do you go, too, child," she bade her. Instead, Hortensia came forward. "I wish to remain, madam," she said. "Did I ask you what you wished?" demanded the countess.
He was bending beside Hortensia. He took her hand, and bore it to his lips. "Sweet," he murmured, "'twas a treason that you intended. Have you, then, no faith in me? Courage, sweetheart, they cannot hurt me." She clutched his hands, and looked up into his eyes. "You but say that to comfort me!" she cried. "Not so," he answered gravely. "I tell you no more than what is true.
"He will have the last word, you perceive," said Mr. Caryll to Hortensia. "Harkee, Mr. Caryll," quoth Mr. Green, quite grimly now. "I'd ha' laid you by the heels a month or more ago, but for certain friends o' mine who have other ends to serve." "Sir, what you tell me shocks me. It shakes the very foundations of my faith in human nature. I have esteemed you an honest man, Mr.
Her ladyship dispensed with ambassadors, and went in person to convey her orders to her husband's ward, and to enforce them. "What's this I am told?" quoth she, as she sailed into Hortensia's room. "Do my wishes count for nothing, that you send me pert answers by my woman?" Hortensia rose. She had been sitting by the window, a book in her lap. "Not so, indeed, madam. Not pert, I trust.
It is Heaven and Hell to me. Ten days ago, Hortensia, I asked you to marry me " "No more," she begged him, an arm thrown out to stay him. "But there is more," he answered, advancing again. "This time I can make the offer more attractive. Marry me, and Caryll is not only free to depart, but no evidence shall be laid against him. I swear it!
Whereupon Mr. Caryll took his leave, promising to advise his lordship of whatever he might glean, and so departed from Stretton House. My Lord Rotherby, meanwhile, was very diligent in the business upon which he was intent. He had received in his interview with Hortensia an added spur to such action as might be scatheful to Mr. Caryll.
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