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If the result, so far, fails to satisfy us in that particular, we shall not hesitate to appeal to a Court of Law." She leaned back in her chair, and opened her fan, and looked round her with the air of a woman who called society to witness that she had done her duty. An expression of pain crossed Blanche's face while her step-mother was speaking. Lady Lundie took her hand for the second time.
"I know what that means." said Blanche, eying her uncle eagerly while he was reading the letter. "If you mention Anne's name you insult my step-mother. I have mentioned it freely. Lady Lundie is mortally offended with me." Rash judgment of youth! A lady who takes a dignified attitude, in a family emergency, is never mortally offended she is only deeply grieved.
Mankeltow rubs his neck with his handkerchief. The man the far side of the machine starts to run. Lundie down the ride, or it might have been Walen, shouts, "What's happened?" Mankeltow says, "Collar that chap." 'The second man runs ring-a-ring-o'-roses round the machine, one hand reachin' behind him. Mankeltow heads him off to me. He breaks blind for Walen and Lundie, who are runnin' up the ride.
"Why place the whole responsibility on my shoulders?" inquired Lady Lundie. "Out of profound deference for your opinion," answered Sir Patrick. "Strictly speaking, no doubt, any serious responsibility rests with me. I am Blanche's guardian " "Thank God!" cried Lady Lundie, with a perfect explosion of pious fervor. "I hear an outburst of devout thankfulness," remarked Sir Patrick.
"Reserving my right of objection, Sir Patrick," he answered, "I beg you to go on." To the surprise of every body, Sir Patrick addressed himself directly to Blanche quoting the language in which Lady Lundie had spoken to him, with perfect composure of tone and manner.
Lady Lundie put a last precautionary question, in these words: "Have you reported what you have seen to any body else?" An affirmative reply. Lady Lundie had not bargained for that. "Do you mean that you have told somebody else what you have just told me?" Another affirmative reply. "A person who questioned you, as I have done?" A third affirmative reply. "Who was it?"
When the mistress of Craig Fernie was duly announced to the mistress of Windygates, Lady Lundie developed a sense of humor for the first time in her life. Inchbare and the Spanish fowls. "Most ridiculous, Hopkins! This poor woman must be suffering from a determination of poultry to the brain. Ill as I am, I should have thought that nothing could amuse me.
Lady Lundie, accordingly, foregoes her intention of calling at the Craig Fernie inn, to express her sentiments and make her inquiries in person, and commits to Sir Patrick the duty of expressing her sentiments; reserving to herself the right of making her inquiries at the next convenient opportunity.
"Julius!" he resumed, "have you ever heard of a young woman named Anne Silvester?" Julius answered in the negative. He and his wife had exchanged cards with Lady Lundie, and had excused themselves from accepting her invitation to the lawn-party. With the exception of Blanche, they were both quite ignorant of the persons who composed the family circle at Windygates.
I can't make it out," says Mankeltow. "Look at here," says Walen, kind of brusque. "This man ain't breathin' at all. Didn't you hear somethin' crack when he lit, Lundie?" "My God!" says Lundie. "Did I? I thought it was my suspenders" no, he said "braces." 'Right there I left them and sort o' tiptoed back to my man, hopin' he'd revived and quit. But he hadn't.
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