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She was not herself when she stole so quietly from home and went disguised to the station. She was half delirious with fear and dread; her brain whirled, her heart beat, every moment she dreaded to see Allan Lyster pursuing her. Her only idea was to get away from him, safe in some refuge where he could not find her.
Gwynne the town, as indeed he has suggested more than once, it must be understood that the expense is mine." "Lyster would never permit it," said Paula, grandly. "You know what he is he even lends more than he borrows; that is one reason why we are always so hard up. He is simply dying to show Mr. Gwynne about. And that means that he'll spend a month's salary before he gets it."
"Here we are," said Sir Richard Lyster, moving down a dark passage towards the brightly lit doorway of their hotel. With a start as of one taken red-handed Mary awoke from her dream. Madame d'Estrées and her friend, Donna Laura, occupied the mezzanin of the vast Vercelli palace. The palace itself belonged to the head of the Vercelli family.
And we will dine out somewhere?" "I'll pack all the decent things I possess and send them up right away. Fortunately the dress Lyster gave me last month is quite fresh, so I shall not feel too small beside your magnificence, and I am sure that Mr. Gwynne, even if he is an Englishman, does not dress any better than Lyster." "Not a bit. We shall have some jolly times together. Mr.
Meanwhile Geoffrey Cliffe, his strange, twisted face still vindictively aglow, made his way to Kitty Bristol's corner in the drawing-room. Mary Lyster was conscious of it, conscious also of a certain look that Kitty bestowed upon the entrance of Ashe, while Cliffe was opening a battery of mingled chaff and compliments that did not at first have much effect upon her.
"Yes, I would like to stay with Lady Tranmore. But will your cousin be there?" "Miss Lyster?" Kitty nodded. "How can I tell? Of course, she is often there." "It is quite curious," said Kitty, after reflection, "how we dislike each other. And it is so odd. You know most people like me!" She looked up at him without a trace of coquetry, rather with a certain timidity that feared possible rebuff.
These ideas flashed through her mind with the rapidity of lightning; then Miss Lyster, with an expression on her face that was a most perfect mixture of reverence and humility, said: "I hope Miss Arleigh will study herself and your ladyship, not me." "You must not look at it in that light. Miss Arleigh studies every one most kindly, I am sure.
She talked well, and the most subtle and clever of arguments came to her naturally. Her words had with them a charm and force that the young could not resist. Let those who misuse such talents remember they must answer to the Most High God for them. Adelaide Lyster used hers to betray a trust, that ought to have been held most sacred. She cared little how she influenced Marion's mind.
Cecilia, who but too well knew her full meaning, tenderly embraced her, but was prevented by Dr Lyster from entering into any discourse with her. The first meeting, however, with Delvile being over, the second was far more quiet, and in a very short time, he would scarcely quit her a moment, Cecilia herself receiving from his sight a pleasure too great for denial, yet too serene for danger.
Just as they had done, a note was delivered to Dr Lyster; "see here," cried he, when he had read it, "what a fine thing it is to be a young man! Why now, Mr Mortimer understands as much of all this etiquette as you ladies do yourselves; for he only writes a note even to ask how his mother does." He then put it into Cecilia's hand. To Dr Lyster. Tell me, my dear Sir, how you have found my mother?
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