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People did not go to church and sit together in Grafton unless they were the next thing to being engaged. What if this filled Ludovic with the narcotic of despair instead of wakening him up! She sat through the service in misery and heard not one word of the sermon. But Ludovic's spectacular performances were not yet over.
The expression of her pale face and singular eyes was far from encouraging. "Indeed and why?" Ludovic permitted himself to remark, in tones of polite inquiry. "I had been led to believe that you and Lady Calmady were on terms of rather warm friendship." "We are," Honoria answered, "that is, at Brockhurst." "Forgive my indiscretion but why not in London?" The young lady looked full at him. "Mr.
"Don't you think she is very handsome?" said Lord Lufton. "Oh, very," said Lucy. "Nobody can doubt that." "Ludovic," said Lady Lufton not quite approving of her son's remaining so long at the back of Lucy's chair "won't you give us another song? Mrs. Robarts and Miss Grantly are still at the piano." "I have sung away all that I knew, mother. There's Culpepper has not had a chance yet.
"You're fond of Ludovic, aren't you?" asked Anne, detecting a note of real bitterness among Theodora's paradoxes. "Laws, yes," said Theodora candidly. She did not think it worth while to blush over so settled a fact. "I think the world and all of Ludovic. And he certainly does need somebody to look after HIM. He's neglected he looks frayed. You can see that for yourself.
Crawley through the whole." "Remained at Hogglestock through the fever!" exclaimed his lordship. "Yes, indeed," said Lady Lufton. "And is she there now?" "Oh, yes; I am not aware that she thinks of leaving just yet." "Then I say that it is a great shame a scandalous shame!" "But, Ludovic, it was her own doing." "Oh, yes; I understand. But why should she be sacrificed?
"Since my Lord Crawford has embraced my nephew," said Ludovic Lesly, "I will embrace him also though I would have you to know that to understand the service of an ambushment is as necessary to a soldier as it is to a priest to be able to read his breviary." "Be hushed, Ludovic," said Crawford; "ye are an ass, my friend, and ken not the blessing Heaven has sent you in this braw callant.
"That will do," said Armitage, grinning at the ease with which he identified the man. "You understand that it is wholly irregular for us to let such a matter pass without acting " said the purser. "It would serve no purpose, and might do harm. I will take the responsibility." And John Armitage made a memorandum in his notebook: "Zmai ; travels as Peter Ludovic."
The prospect, in all its beguilingness, renewed itself to-day after luncheon." He paused, handling the plunging horses. "And so after all Ludovic shall be reckoned welcome. For, as I say, I might have come to depend on her.
Lucy could listen to the young lord's voice by the hour together without being dazzled in the least. Under these circumstances two things occurred to her. She would speak either to her son or to Fanny Robarts, and by a little diplomacy have this evil remedied. And then she had to determine on which step she would take. "Nothing could be more reasonable than Ludovic."
And so, during the last two years of his university course, he did meet them and overcame, honours falling liberally to his share. Julius March looked on in pleased surprise at the exploits of his former pupil. While Ludovic Quayle, with raised eyebrows and half-tender, half-ironical amusement relaxing the corners of his remarkably beautiful mouth, would say:
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