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'Does Harry come back from London to-morrow does anybody know? 'Not aware, Laxley was heard to reply. 'I want to speak a word to you, Rose, said Mrs. Shorne. 'With the greatest pleasure, my dear aunt': and Rose walked after her. 'My dear Rose, Mrs. Shorne commenced, 'your conduct requires that I should really talk to you most seriously.
Probably this explains his conduct to Evan. Some youths have an acute memory for things that have shut their mouths. The Countess observed to Harry that his dear friend Mr. Laxley appeared, by the cast of his face, to be biting a sour apple. 'Grapes, you mean? laughed Harry. 'Never mind! she'll bite at him when he comes in for the title. 'Anything crude will do, rejoined the Countess.
While blaming Laxley's unmannered behaviour, he seemed to think Laxley had grounds for it, and treated Evan with a sort of cynical deference that had, for the last couple of days, exasperated Rose. 'Mama, you must speak to Ferdinand, she burst upon the conversation, 'Drummond is afraid to he can stand by and see my friend insulted.
Why should you lay us under this fresh burden? 'Because it 's better to bear all now than a life of remorse, answered Evan. 'But this Mr. Laxley I cannot pity him; he has behaved so insolently to you throughout! Let him suffer. 'Lady Jocelyn, said Evan, 'has been unintentionally unjust to him, and after her kindness apart from the right or wrong I will not I can't allow her to continue so.
Drummond Forth, fearful perhaps of exciting unjust suspicions in the mind of Captain Evremonde, disappeared altogether. Harry was in a mess which threw him almost upon Evan's mercy, as will be related. And, lastly, Ferdinand Laxley, that insufferable young aristocrat, was thus spoken to by Lady Jocelyn.
Fancy Harrington! They were now in the fourth field, a smooth shorn meadow. Laxley was two clear lengths in advance, but seemed riding, as Mr. George remarked, more for pace than to take the jump. The ladies kept plying random queries and suggestions: the Countess wishing to know whether they could not be stopped by a countryman before they encountered any danger.
Polly screwed her lips, as if she had a pin between them, and continued: 'Miss Rose was quite sensible when she praised you as her friend; she meant it every word; and then sudden what does Mr. Laxley do, but say you was something else besides friend worse or better; and she was silent, which made him savage, I could hear by his voice. And he said, Mr. Harrington, "You meant it if she did not."
Harry, who was fond of Drummond, offered to accompany him, and Laxley, for the sake of a diversion, fell into the scheme. Mr. George Uplift was also to be of the party, and promised them fun. But when the time came to start, not one could be induced to move: Laxley was pressingly engaged by Rose: Harry showed the rope the Countess held him by; Mr.
She had been about to confide to him her young mistress's position toward Lord Laxley, when his sharp interrogation stopped her. Shrinking from absolute invention, she remarked that of course she could not exactly remember Miss Rose's words; which seemed indeed too much to expect of her. 'She will see me to-night? said Evan. 'I don't know about to-night, Polly replied. 'Go to her instantly.
'That will do, said Laxley, lacking the magnanimity to despise the advantage given him, 'you have chosen the very best means of saving your skins. 'We 'll come to you when our supply of clothes runs short, added Harry. 'A snip! 'Pardon me ! said Evan, with his eyes slightly widening, 'but if you come to me, I shall no longer give you a choice of behaviour. I wish you good-night, gentlemen.
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