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"You are an only daughter, my dear, and a petted one," said Mrs. Larpent, smiling. "There are too many of them to make much of, as we do of our Meta." "I suppose so; but I did not know gentlewomen lived in such a way," said Meta. "There were nice things about, a beautiful inlaid work-box of Flora's, and a rosewood desk, and plenty of books, and a Greek book and dictionary were spread open.
He turned upon Larpent almost menacingly, and found the steady eyes, still with that icy glint of humour in them, unflinchingly awaiting his challenge. "You want to get married," the sailor said imperturbably. "Why in the name of all the stars of destiny don't you marry her? She may not have the blue blood in her veins, but blood isn't everything, and you've got enough for two.
"And there's nothing under the sun he can't do except drive cars," put in Saltash, "and obey orders." Toby winced a little. "I'm sorry, sir. Only wanted to be useful, sir. I'll go back to bed if you say so." "What do you say, Captain?" said Saltash. Larpent bent and looked closely at the injured eye. "The sooner the better," he said after a brief examination.
Then for a second Saltash hung, one hand still gripping Toby's, the other holding to the rail of his sinking yacht, the two of them poised side by side above the abyss. "You'll save yourself, Larpent!" he cried. "I shall want you." And with that he turned suddenly to his shivering companion and actually smiled into the terrified eyes. "Come on, Toby!" he said. "We go together!"
Whatever his private opinions might be, he never expressed them unless invited to do so by his employer. He never criticized by word or look. Saltash was wont to say that if he decided to turn pirate he believed that Larpent would continue at his post without the smallest change of front. To raise a protest of any sort would have been absolutely foreign to his nature.
He thanked her, saying, "I wanted to learn all about it, for I thought it would be such nice work for my eldest sister." A glance of earnest interest from little Meta's bright eyes at her governess, and Mrs. Larpent, in a kind, soft tone that quite gained his heart, asked, "Is she the invalid?" "Yes," said Norman. "New fancy work is a great gain to her." Mrs.
Moreover, the lie was not without foundation. There was a child on board of the female species, very small and badly frightened. We saved her between us, Larpent and I. She belongs to Larpent not to me." "You mean she is his daughter?" questioned Maud. "That is exactly what I mean. Dull explanation, isn't it? Larpent was badly damaged.
Thus I think I have made a good bargain for you, though but an indifferent one for myself: but that is what I never minded in my life. You may, therefore, depend upon receiving from me the full of this defalcation, when and how you please, independently of your usual annual refreshment, which I will pay to Monsieur Larpent, whenever you desire it. In the meantime, 'Cura ut valeas'.
"She never caught me, mon ami. I met her too late in life when I was beginning to get fastidious." His monkey-like grin showed for a moment. "I appreciated her charm, but it left me cold." "You never saw her in her first youth," said Larpent, and into his fixed eyes there came a curious glow the look of a man who sees a vision. "What was she like then?" said Saltash.
That brought the fair head upwards very swiftly. The blue eyes with their short black lashes looked straight up to his. "But but Captain Larpent " "Oh, never mind Larpent! I'll square him." Saltash's look flashed over the pale, tear-stained face. His hold, though close, no longer compelled. "Leave it all to me! Don't you fret! I'll square Larpent. I'll square everybody.
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