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I was mortally afraid you would; for, d'ye see, you had a distinguished theatrical personage in your audience." "Indeed! I was not aware; who?" "Miss Kellerton herself!" "Is it possible?" Pendlam looked surprised, Susan interested, Mrs. "She told me she was going to hear you, to show you that she could be quite as tolerant as yourself.
I don't think Hilda felt like that, but then Hilda is so good, she wouldn't. Oh, Trevor dear, I wish I wish we could go to Kellerton and live there without being married at all." The words came muffled from his shoulder; she was clinging to him almost convulsively.
"He is in earnest, and that is everything. But mark me, he is not the man for Susan." "Your jealousy!" said Horatio. "Not a bit! I see a discrepancy." "Where?" "In my mind's eye, Horatio." I concluded that silence was discretion, and refused to answer more questions. Horatio looked at his watch. "We have just time to see Miss Kellerton in the last act of 'The Stranger. She is great!
And this time perhaps because the words offered a way of escape of which she was not sorry to avail herself Chris did not seek to contradict him. She pressed her cheek to Cinders' alert head, and said no more. Rupert's description of Kellerton Old Park, though unflattering, was not far removed from the truth.
"Don't think to disarm me by a pleasantry," replied Pendlam, brandishing his spiritual weapon. "This is my sermon on the theatre, which you engaged to hear me preach; I have had it printed for you." "Really," said Horatio, with a humorous smile, "I had forgotten my promise. Besides, I was engaged, let me see, it was two Sundays ago, wasn't it? yes, I was engaged to dine with Miss Kellerton."
You said something just now about having to wait a year to fix things up. I don't see the necessity for that, situated as we are. Since you are willing that I should buy Kellerton Old Park, and since we are agreed upon the price, I see no reason to delay payment. I will write you a cheque for your share to-night." "What?" said Rupert.
It was true; there sat the reformer, out-cheering Horatio himself! By his side was Susan, looking brighter and happier than I had seen her for months. By her side sat "That rascal Clodman!" hissed Horatio, through his teeth. Miss Kellerton came before the curtain. A vast tumult of applause burst forth and died away. Pendlam cheered after all the rest had ceased.
Then he and Clodman conferred, the face of the latter so near Susan's, as he leaned before her, that Horatio swore he kissed her. Both Pendlam and Susan were beaming with smiles. "This recreation will do them good," I whispered. "That Clodman is a villain!" muttered Horatio. "Ask Miss Kellerton; she knows him. But, villainy aside, what a stupendous joke it is to see Pendlam here!"
Chris lay back in her seat, somewhat wearied but quite content, watching the cornfields with their red wealth of poppies, watching the long, white road before them, and now and then the unerring hands that held the wheel. When at length they neared Kellerton she roused herself and became more animated. "It's been a lovely ride, Trevor. Let's go for one every day.
"I'm no good at fencing," he said, rather irritably. "You want Kellerton Old Park, Chris tells me. Have you seen it?" "No." "Then" he sat back with a laugh that sounded rather forced "that ends it," he declared. "The place has gone to rack and ruin. You can't walk up the avenue for the thistles. They are shoulder high. And as for the house, it's not much more than a rubbish-heap.
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