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Langham had rarely felt more awkward than he did then, as he sat leaning forward under the tree, this slim, indignant creature standing over him, and his consciousness about equally divided between a sense of her absurdity and a sense of her prettiness. 'You are an advocate worth having, Miss Leyburn, he said at last, an enigmatical smile he could not restrain playing about his mouth.
Agnes Leyburn was not pretty; the lower part of the face was a little heavy in outline and moulding; the teeth were not as they should have been, and the nose was unsatisfactory. But the eyes under their long lashes were shrewdness itself, and there was an individuality in the voice, a cheery even-temperedness in look and tone, which had a pleasing effect on the bystander.
It was very rarely indeed, that on her own ground, so to speak, the vicar ventured to take the whip-hand of her like this. Mrs. Thornburgh looked at him in amazement. 'Do you mean to say, he asked, in raised tones, 'that you didn't notice that from the moment you first introduced Robert to Catherine Leyburn, he had practically no attention for anybody else? Mrs.
Of course nowadays we all say very fine things about it; but Richard Leyburn would no more have admitted that a girl who hadn't got her own bread or her family's to earn by it was justified in spending her time in fiddling than he would have approved of her spending it in dancing.
We keep our friends, our chances, our our joys, she went on hurriedly, trying desperately to generalize, 'or we throw them away wilfully, because we choose. Their eyes were riveted on each other. 'Not wilfully, he said under his breath. 'But no matter. May I take you at your word, Miss Leyburn? Wretched shirker that I am, whom even Robert's charity despairs of: have I made a friend?
Miss Leyburn and he were not engaged, but he was on probation for six months, and found London the best place for getting through it. 'So far, he said, 'I am getting on well, and developing an amount of energy especially in the matter of correspondence, which alone ought to commend the arrangement to the relations of an idle man. But we must be left "to dream our dream unto ourselves alone."
He still sent flowers, but they came from his head gardener, addressed to Mrs. Leyburn. Agnes put them in water; and Rose never gave them a look. Rose went to Lady Helen's because Lady Helen made her, and was much too engaging a creature to be rebuffed; but, however merry and protracted the teas in those scented rooms might be, Mr. Flaxman's step on the stairs, and Mr.
It was the cheapening the vulgarising, so to speak, of her whole existence. In the course of their long embrace Mrs. Leyburn let fall various items of news that showed Catherine very plainly who had been at work upon her mother, and one of which startled her. 'He comes back to-night, my dear and he goes on Saturday. Oh, and, Catherine, Mrs. Thornburgh says he does care so much. Poor young man!
Mrs. leyburn listened to this summary of matrimonial philosophy with the same yielding, flurried attention as she was always disposed to give to the last speaker. 'But, she said, still in a maze, 'if she did care for him, why should she send him away? 'Because she won't have him! said Mrs.
A glance passed between the two men. In Langham's there was a hardly sane antagonism and resentment, in Flaxman's an excited intelligence. 'Now then, said Flaxman coolly, 'fix your mind steadily on what Miss Leyburn is to do you must take her hand but except in thought, you must carefully follow and not lead her. Shall I call her? 'Langham abruptly assented.
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