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He immediately left his seat and, taking a dozen steps, recognized Angela Vivian, Blanche Evers and Captain Lovelock. In a moment he met them in the middle of the terrace. Blanche immediately announced that they had come for a midnight walk. "And if you think it 's improper," she exclaimed, "it 's not my invention it 's Miss Vivian's." "I beg pardon it 's mine," said Captain Lovelock.
"If you saw any one with me, it must have been Lovelock, for there certainly was no one else." And she gave a little sigh, like a person trying to reproduce in her mind some delightful but too evanescent impression. I looked at my host; from crimson his face had turned perfectly livid, and he breathed as if some one were squeezing his windpipe. No more was said about the matter.
Captain Lovelock scrutinized Blanche's appearance with a fixed and solemn eye; and then he replied "It proves you are very lovely." Blanche kissed her finger-tips to him in return for this compliment. "You only need to give Captain Lovelock a chance," she rattled on, "and he is as clever as any one. That 's what I like to do to my friends I like to make chances for them.
"My dear Longueville," Lovelock went on, "I have always gone in for family feeling, early associations, and all that sort of thing. That 's what made me confide my difficulties to Dovedale. But, upon my honor, you remind me of the good Samaritan, or that sort of person; you are fonder of me than my own brother!
At that moment the sunlight fell upon the groom's face, and Lovelock recognised Mrs. Oke. He cried out, 'Alice, Alice! it is you who have murdered me! and died. Then Nicholas Oke sprang into his saddle and rode off with his wife, leaving Lovelock dead by the side of his fallen horse.
At that moment the sunlight fell upon the groom's face, and Lovelock recognised Mrs. Oke. He cried out, 'Alice, Alice! it is you who have murdered me! and died. Then Nicholas Oke sprang into his saddle and rode off with his wife, leaving Lovelock dead by the side of his fallen horse.
She is very charitable she would give you a shilling!" "She would n't let you marry me," said Lovelock. "She would n't have much trouble to prevent it!" cried the young girl. Bernard had had enough of this intellectual fencing. "Yes, I will go and ask Mrs. Vivian," he repeated. And he left his companions to resume their walk. It had seemed to him a good idea to interrogate Mrs.
Gracious heavens! do you suppose they haven't heard the story? Why, it's as well known as Okehurst itself in the neighbourhood. Don't they believe that Lovelock has been seen about the house? Haven't they all heard his footsteps in the big corridor?
"I think I should like to be lost. I might have all kinds of adventures." "I 'guess' so!" said Captain Lovelock, hilariously. "Oh, I should find my way. I can take care of myself!" Blanche went on. "Mrs. Vivian does n't think so," said Bernard, who had just perceived this lady, seated under a tree with a book, over the top of which she was observing her pretty protege.
There was a tender exchange of embraces between Blanche and her friends, and the charming visitor, losing no time, began to chatter with her usual volubility. Mrs. Vivian and Angela made her companion graciously welcome; but Blanche begged they would n't mind him she had only brought him as a watch-dog. "His place is on the rug," she said. "Captain Lovelock, go and lie down on the rug."
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