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Updated: June 5, 2025
"What a miserable supper!" she remarked to a school-mate, when they had gone from the dining-room and were gathered on the veranda for the short half-hour that intervened between the meal and the evening study-hour. "It was quite as good as usual," was the rejoinder in a sneering tone. "What did you expect? Do you suppose the Mantons don't want to make anything off us as boarders?"
She was blue-eyed and very delicately complexioned, quick-moving, witty, given to little storms of clean enthusiasm; she loved handsome things, brave things, successful things, and the respect and affection of all the world. She did quite what she liked upon impulse, and nobody ever thought ill of her. Her family were the Mantons of Blent, quite good west-country people.
The uncertainty was terrible to the girl, and she forced her thoughts into the one channel in which there was a ray of comfort. "At least," she murmured, "he has ceased to be a menace to Charlie." "Mr. Hiram Carmody, miss." The old manservant who had been with the Mantons always, stood framed in the inverted V of the parted portières. Ethel started. Why had he called?
"It stands to reason," said he to himself, "that a man who has been actually paid by the King's Government for shooting people ever since he was a little boy in a midshipman's jacket, must be a dead hand at the job. I should not mind if it was with double-barrelled Mantons and small shot; but ball and pistol, they are n't human nor sportsmanlike!"
Sunday morning came and Lulu made herself ready for church, all the time fearing that she would have to go with the Mantons and sit with them and their other boarding-scholars. Great, then, was her joy on seeing Max drive up in a light two-seated carriage, Violet and Grace on the back seat, a vacant space on the front beside the young charioteer.
Gerard said that new Mantons always feed too rich a mixture at first and that he knew what was the matter the moment he stuck his fingers in. "We went home on the second speed so that Gerard could steer with one hand. "Oh, the captain? He acted kind of miserable at first, and was awfully sarcastic about being a gentleman and not a gas-engineer. But I said the modern idea was to be both.
Lucenay, having lighted a cigar, followed the marquis into his chamber. "Here are some splendid guns, truly; faith, I do not know which to prefer, the French or the English." "Douglas," cried Lucenay, "come and see if these guns will not compare with the best Mantons." Lord Douglas, Saint Remy, and the two other guests entered the chamber of the marquis to examine the arms.
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