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'Hook back the gate, Joey, shouted Emmeline, when the carriage had proceeded up the drive. 'There's more to come. Joey did as ordered, and by the time he got indoors another carriage turned in from the public road a one-horse brougham this time. 'I know who that is: that's Mr. Ladywell, said Emmeline, in the same matter-of-fact tone.

Why, he knows that it is a lady all the time, and we were only just now doubting whether the sex of the writer could be really what it seems. Shame, Ladywell! said his friend Neigh. 'Ah, Mr. Ladywell, said another, 'now we have found you out. You know her!

There she is again, said the young man called Ladywell. 'Some cottage lass, not yet old enough to make the most of the value set on her by her follower, small as that appears to be. Now we may get an idea of the hour named by the fellow for the appointment, for, depend upon it, the time when she first came about five minutes ago was the time he should have been there.

'That proves nothing unless she is a great deal to you, said Ladywell, with the experienced air of a man who, whatever his inferiority in years to Neigh, was far beyond him in knowledge of that sort, by virtue of his recent trials. 'She is a great deal to me. 'If I did not know you to be such a confirmed misogynist I should say that this is a serious matter.

The general look then implied a false encouragement, and the man in spectacles looked down again, being a nervous person, who never had time to show his merits because he was so much occupied in hiding his faults. 'Do you know the authoress, Mr. Neigh? continued Ladywell. 'Can't say that I do, he replied.

Indeed, I should not have come here at all had I not heard the subject mentioned by accident yesterday at Grey's; and then I remembered her to be the same woman I had met at some place Belmaine's I think it was last year, when I thought her just getting on for handsome and clever, not to put it too strongly. 'Ah! naturally you would not know much, replied Ladywell, in an eager whisper.

My maid is in the carriage. She bowed, turned, and entered the vehicle, seating herself beside Picotee. 'It was harsh! said Ladywell to himself, as he looked after the retreating carriage. 'I was a fool; but it was harsh. Yet what man on earth likes a woman to show too great a readiness at first? She is right: she would be nothing without repulse! And he moved away in an opposite direction.

Ladywell knows all: I had already told him that the rose- leaves were given me by my intended wife. We seem to him to be practising deceptions all of a piece, and what folly it is to play off so! As to what I did, that I ask your forgiveness for. Ethelberta looked upon the ground and maintained a compressed lip.

'Not I. My heart is in the happy position of a country which has no history or debt. 'I suppose I should rejoice to hear it, said Ladywell. 'But the consciousness of a fellow-sufferer being in just such another hole is such a relief always, and softens the sense of one's folly so very much. 'There's less Christianity in that sentiment than in your confessing to it, old fellow.

'But I do not wish for any formal engagement, said Ladywell quickly, fearing she might commit herself to some expression of positive denial, which he could never surmount. 'I'll wait I'll wait any length of time. Remember, you have never absolutely forbidden my friendship.