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'Ladywell, how came this Mrs. Petherwin to think of such a queer trick as telling romances, after doing so well as a poet? said a man in the stalls to his friend, who had been gazing at the Story-teller with a rapt face. 'What don't you know? everybody did, I thought, said the painter. 'A mistake.
Something like five minutes had passed when a hansom stopped outside the door, and Ladywell entered the porch. He stood still, and, looking inquiringly round for a minute or two, sat down in one of the high pews, as if under the impression that the others had not yet arrived. While he sat here Neigh reappeared at the south door opposite, and came slowly in.
The intermediate path of accepting Neigh or Ladywell had no more attractions for her taste than the fact of disappointing them had qualms for her conscience; and how few these were may be inferred from her opinion, true or false, that two words about the spigot on her escutcheon would sweep her lovers' affections to the antipodes.
She is sure to have him if she does not dally with him so long that he gets cool again. 'A beautiful creature like her to think of marrying such an infatuated idiot as he! 'He can give her a title as well as younger men. It will not be the first time that such matches have been made. 'I can't believe it, said Ladywell vehemently.
Then I may wish I had given him no personal cause for additional bitterness. So, putting off the fine lady, Ethelberta thought she would see Ladywell at once.
But I have no right to assume anything you don't wish me to assume, and I will wait. How long is it that I am to suffer in this uncertainty? 'A month. By that time I shall have grown weary of my other two suitors. 'A month! Really inflexible? Ethelberta had returned inside the window, and her answer was inaudible. Ladywell and Neigh looked up, and their eyes met.
'It is serious, said Neigh quietly. 'The probability is that I shall marry the woman who gave me these. Anyhow I have asked her the question, and she has not altogether said no. 'I am glad to hear it, Neigh, said Ladywell heartily. 'I am glad to hear that your star is higher than mine.
And the more easily a man takes life the more persistently does luck follow him. 'Of course; because, if he's industrious he does not want luck's assistance. Natural laws will help him instead. 'Well, if it is true that Ladywell has painted a good picture he has done it by an exhaustive process. He has painted every possible bad one till nothing more of that sort is left for him.
'She told me she would give me an answer in a month, said Ladywell emotionally. 'So she told me, said Neigh. 'And so she told him, said Ladywell. 'And I have no doubt she will keep her word to him in her usual precise manner. 'But see what she implied to me! I distinctly understood from her that the answer would be favourable. 'So did I. 'So does he.
Christopher, assured that Ethelberta's embarrassment had been caused by nothing more than the sense of her odd social subsidence, recovered more bliss than he had lost, and regarded calmly the profile of young Ladywell between the two windows of his brougham as it passed the open cottage door, bearing him along unconscious as the dead of the nearness of his beloved one, and of the sad buffoonery that fate, fortune, and the guardian angels had been playing with Ethelberta of late.
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