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I have been expecting him every day; but nothing has been heard of him since he left my mother's presence in a rabid state of fury. Did I tell you it was from Kerton they fled? I thought he must have come to me for an explanation, knowing that I was an accessory before the fact.
I wish I did not see them so often still in my dreams. There were changes in other houses besides Kerton Manor, and a vacancy in the most luxurious set of chambers in the Albany.
He was not languid, but simply apathetic and indifferent, so that one could not help being constantly struck by the contrast between his moral and physical state: the latter was still the perfection of muscular power. He was every thing that was kind to his mother, and to Isabel Forrester too, who spent much of her time at Kerton, and whose health was very delicate.
"Good-by, old horse," he said. "It was no fault of yours. How well you always carried me!" He never spoke again till we reached Kerton Manor. Isabel Forrester was fortunately out, but Lady Catharine met us on the hall steps. She did not shriek or faint when she saw the horror, which had haunted her for years, fulfilled there to the uttermost.
Wind and weather have used him with a rough kindness, and his foot is almost as light, his hand quite as heavy, as when he entered the service of Guy's grandfather half a century ago. For generations his family have been devoted to the preservation of game; his six stalwart sons are all eminent in that line; and the "Kerton breed" of keepers is renowned throughout the Midland shires.
He put it back with a decided gesture of his hand, and, leaning over her, whispered something in her ear. I don't know how they arranged it; but Miss Raymond wore the turquoises at the next county ball the ring, to her dying day. "Souvent femme varie; Bien fol est, qui s'y fie." We sat by the firelight in the old library of Kerton Manor.
Miss Bellasys, who, with her mother, had arrived at Kerton the night before, laid half a point more not in gloves on the heavy-weight. The bell for saddling rang, and the horses came out. The mare stripped beautifully, as fine as a star no wonder her mistress was proud of her; and I think she had, to the full, as many admirers as the Axeine.
I constantly saw Guy, and sometimes was with him both in town and at Kerton, where Isabel was staying with Lady Catharine. He still appeared to have no doubt of the ultimate result of the search, which, personally or by deputy, he never intermitted for a day. "He threw His wrathful hand aloft, and cried 'Away! Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me."
A parody on the "tag" which was given to Cambronne would sum up his terribly simple and consistent creed La femme se rend, mais ne meurt pas. "I hold him but a fool, that would endanger His body for a girl that loves him not." Fallowfield left us the next morning, the Bellasys later in the same day. They were to pay divers visits, and then return to Kerton.
Trust her not; she is fooling thee." So the days went on. The stream of visitors usual in a country house during the hunting season flowed in and out of Kerton Manor without any remarkable specimen showing itself above the surface. One individual, perhaps, I ought to except, the curate of the parish, who was a very constant visitor.
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