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She wisely withdraws from Lady Lydiard's house until appearances are proved to be false and her position is cleared up." Miss Pink had her reply ready. "That is simply acknowledging, in other words, that my niece is suspected. I am only a woman, Mr. Troy but it is not quite so easy to mislead me as you seem to suppose." Mr. Troy's temper was admirably trained.
Troy suddenly stood still, and eyed his companion a little distrustfully. "Are you going to turn detective-policeman on your own account?" he asked. "There's nothing I won't turn to, and try, to help Miss Isabel in this matter," Moody answered, firmly. "I have saved a few hundred pounds in Lady Lydiard's service, and I am ready to spend every farthing of it, if I can only discover the thief." Mr.
Sweetsir is a man of the world," he said. "In putting the case before him, we are sure to have it presented to us from a new point of view." Acting on this favorable expression of opinion, Lady Lydiard wrote to her nephew. On the day after the visit to Miss Pink, the proposed council of three was held at Lady Lydiard's house.
The money was destined to a charitable purpose; and I have felt it my duty to pay it again." Felix rose and approached his aunt's chair with faltering steps, as became a suffering man. He took Lady Lydiard's hand and kissed it with enthusiastic admiration. "You excellent creature!" he said. "You may not think it, but you reconcile me to human nature. How generous! how noble!
The letter was nothing less than Lady Lydiard's reply to the written announcement of Isabel's engagement, despatched on the previous day by Miss Pink. Her Ladyship's answer was a surprisingly short one. It only contained these lines: "Lady Lydiard begs to acknowledge the receipt of Miss Pink's letter requesting that she will say nothing to Mr.
He wanted more, and told her to read 'First Love Last Love. 'I fear I have not the tone of voice for love-poems, Jenny said, returning the book to him. 'I'll read it, said he. He read with more impressiveness than effect. Lydiard's reading thrilled her: Beauchamp's insisted too much on particular lines. But it was worth while observing him.
'That's the best thing I've heard of late, he said, shaking Lydiard's hand on the door-steps. 'Ah! You're Commander Beauchamp; I think I know you. I've seen you on a platform, cried a fresh-faced man in decent clothes, halting on his way along the pavement; 'and if you were in your uniform, you damned Republican dog!
Believe me, dear sir, respectfully yours, ISABEL MILLER. P.S. I am further instructed to say that the regrettable event at Lady Lydiard's house is the proposed subject of the consultation. The Lawn, South Morden. Thursday." Mr. Troy smiled as he read the letter. "Too formal for a young girl!" he said to himself. "Every word of it has been dictated by Miss Pink."
In the interval, Mr. Troy had taken his leave, and Moody's position had dropped a degree lower in Lady Lydiard's estimation. Isabel received her letter by the next morning's post. If any justification of Mr. Troy's suspicions had been needed, the terms in which Moody wrote would have amply supplied it.
He wanted more, and told her to read 'First Love Last Love. 'I fear I have not the tone of voice for love-poems, Jenny said, returning the book to him. 'I'll read it, said he. He read with more impressiveness than effect. Lydiard's reading thrilled her: Beauchamp's insisted too much on particular lines. But it was worth while observing him.
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