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His fear induced him to yield to her invitation to accompany her home; and her kindness, to which he knew he was not entitled, combined with the wholesome effect of the pummelling received from the boys, led him to unite in making the class once known as "the Incorrigibles" the best behaved in the school. Everything apparently now promised well for the Jocelyns.
'Evan, though I fear will be rather engaged. His friends, the Jocelyns of Beckley Court, will I fear hardly dispense with him and Lady Splenders you know her? the Marchioness of Splenders? No? by repute, at least: a most beautiful and most fascinating woman; report of him alone has induced her to say that Evan must and shall form a part of her autumnal gathering at Splenders Castle.
No violent outcries; no reproaches cast on the cold-blooded coquette; no exclamations on the heroism of her brother! They could absolutely spare a thought for the animal! And Evan had risked his life for this, and might die unpitied. The Countess diversified her grief with a deadly bitterness against the heartless Jocelyns. Oh, if Evan dies! will it punish Rose sufficiently?
Whatever that harm could be, was now intensified and scandal, beginning as a mere whispered suggestion, would increase to loud and positive assertion ere long. "Poor Uncle Hugo!" and the young man looked up sorrowfully at the darkened windows of the room where lay in still and stern repose all that was mortal of the last of the Jocelyns "What a mistake you have made!
He is a blood-relation of the Elburnes, therefore of the Jocelyns. It will not matter at all. Breweries, I find, are quite in esteem in your England. It was highly commendable in his Grace to visit you. Did he come to see the Major of Marines? Caroline is certainly the loveliest woman I ever beheld, and I forgive her now the pangs of jealousy she used to make me feel.
Evan professed to the Jocelyns that he was willing to apologize to Laxley for certain expressions; determining to leave the house when he had done it. The Countess heard and nodded.
All the Jocelyns laughed at his tenacity, and 'gentleman' began to be bandied about in ridicule of the arrogant lean-headed adolescent.
While you have been here, degenerating, Evan, day by day as you always do out of my sight degenerating! no less a word! I have been slaving in your interests. Yes; I have forced the Jocelyns socially to acknowledge us. I have not slept; I have eaten bare morsels. Do abstinence and vigils clear the wits?
It was a noble old house. Princes of the blood royal had sat in the ponderous carved oak-chairs. A queen had slept in the state-bed, in the blue-satin chamber. Loyal Jocelyns, fighting for their king against low-born Roundhead soldiers, had hidden themselves in the spacious chimneys, or had fled for their lives along the secret passages behind the tapestry.
"Then, if you do not marry, you allow the tradition of heritage to lapse?" suggested Mr. Bayliss. "It has lapsed already," he replied "I am not a real descendant of the Jocelyns " "By the mother's side you are," said Mr. Bayliss "and your mother being dead, it is open to you to take the name of Jocelyn by law, and continue the lineage. It would be entirely fair and reasonable."
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