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'You come from Miss Lindon? He narrowed his shoulders, brought his finger-tips together, inclined his head, in a fashion which was peculiarly Oriental, but not particularly explanatory, so I repeated my question. 'Do you wish me to understand that you do come from Miss Lindon?
Only only I want you to soak her mind with a loathing of the fellow; I I I want you to paint him in his true colours; in in in fact, I I want you to choke him off. While he still struggled with his words, and with the perspiration on his brow, Edwards entered. I turned to him. 'What is it? 'Miss Lindon, sir, wishes to see you particularly, and at once.
I am conscious that Mr Lindon regards my action as a personal question, and resents it so keenly, that I am sometimes moved to wonder if at least a portion of his resentment is not shared by you. 'I have explained; I consider papa the politician as one person, and papa the father as quite another. 'You are his daughter.
"We don't seem to get on somehow, and I'm afraid I'm a bit rough to her; but knives and scissors! What a temper she have got." Meanwhile, in anything but a pleasant frame of mind, Don had gone home to find that the tea was ready, and that he was being treated as a laggard. "Come, Lindon," said his uncle quietly, "you have kept us waiting some time."
There, try and put a better face on the matter, my dear. He will have to appear at the magistrate's office, and there will be a few admonitions. That's all. Isn't Kitty late?" "Yes. Shall I send up for her?" "No; she will be down in a few minutes, I daresay, and Lindon too." The few minutes passed, and Uncle Josiah looked stern. Then he rang for the servants, and his brow grew more heavy.
I became keenly aware, on a sudden, that I had borne my share in playing her a very shabby trick, I should have liked to throw old Lindon through the window. 'The thing was not of my contriving. Had I had the opportunity I would have compelled Mr Lindon to face you when you came in. But your distress caused me to lose my balance.
"Yes, you may well look at the clock," said Uncle Josiah, laughing, as he put his arm round his sister, and kissed her very tenderly; "the young dog is unconscionably late." "You do not think after what I said?" "Think? Nonsense. No, no. Lindon is too manly for that. Here, I am sure that you have a terrible headache, and you are worn out.
'It's done me good already, I believe it has; that's being something like a doctor. Well, Sydney, the storm has almost burst. Last night papa forbade me to speak to Paul Lessingham by way of a prelude. 'Exactly. Mr Lindon 'Yes, Mr Lindon, that's papa. I fancy we almost quarrelled. I know papa said some surprising things, but it's a way he has, he's apt to say surprising things.
I warn you, Miss Lindon, that, until death, you will have to write me down your lover. She looked at me, with wide open eyes, as if I almost frightened her. To be frank, that was what I wished to do. 'Mr Atherton! 'Miss Lindon? 'That is not like you at all. 'We seem to be making each other's acquaintance for the first time.
Miss Coleman asserts that she saw Miss London return into the house; that within a few minutes the blind was replaced at the front window; and that shortly after a young man, attired in the costume I have described, came walking out of the front door. I believe that young man was Miss Marjorie Lindon. Lessingham and Atherton both broke out into interrogations, with Sydney, as usual, loudest.
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