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I shall be miserable for a month, and the house will be divided against itself. Arthur has promised to help Stocks, while the Manorwaters, root and branch, are pledged to support him." "I'll do my best, Lewie, for old acquaintance' sake. It had to come sooner or later, you know, and it is as well that you should seize the favourable moment. Now let us drop the subject for to-night.
We were a great deal about the place when the Manorwaters were there." "Oh yes. I have heard about Lady Manorwater from Alice Wishart. She must be a charming woman; Alice cannot speak enough about her." George's face brightened. "Miss Wishart is a great friend of mine, and a most awfully good sort."
Stocks abated something of his pomposity and was honestly amiable. These were her own people, the workers for whom she had craved. And yet were they so desirable? Her father's grave, keen face pleased her always, but what of the others? The radiant gentlewomen whom she had met with the Manorwaters seemed to belong to another world than this of petty social struggling and awkward ostentation.
Looking after my affairs and idling. I stood for Parliament and got beaten." "Really! How exciting! Where is your home in Scotland, Mr. Haystoun? You told me once, but I have forgotten. You know I have no end of Scotch relatives." "It's in rather a remote part, a place called Etterick, in Glenavelin." "Glenavelin, Glenavelin," the lady repeated. "That's where the Manorwaters live, isn't it?"
To himself he was the hopeless lover, and she the scornful lady, while she in her own eyes was the unhappy girl for whom the soldier in the song shakes his bridle reins and cries an eternal adieu. Matters did not improve when the Manorwaters left and Mr. Wishart himself came down, bringing with him Stocks, a certain Mr. Andrews and his wife, and an excellent young man called Thompson.
"But I thought," she murmured. "I thought they were " She broke off with a cough. "Yes, I spent a good many of my school holidays at Heston." Alice broke in with a question about the Manorwaters. The youthful Mr. Thompson, who, apart from his solicitor's profession, was a devotee of cricket, asked in a lofty way if Mr. Haystoun cared for the game. "I do rather.
"If he gets in; but he will have a fight for it. Our dear friend Albert Stocks has been nursing the seat, and the Manorwaters and scores of Lewie's friends will help him. That young man has a knack of confining his affections to members of the opposite party." "What was Merkland's majority? Two-fifty or something like that?" "There or about.
"Get up, you old fool, and come down to the house. You a coward! You are simply a romancer with an unfortunate knack of tragedy." The man must be laughed out of this folly. If he were not he would show the self-accusing front to the world, and the Manorwaters, Alice, Stocks all save his chosen intimates would credit him with a cowardice of which he had no taint.
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