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"I am thinking of going to Oxford next week," said the tutor, elaborately folding up his napkin, addressing his co-trustee. "Have you any message I can give to any of your acquaintances there?" "I think it would be a pity for you to leave Maxfield just now. One of us should remain." "Yes, do stay. We'll have such larks," said Tom.
After which, in a passably good-humour, he returned to his room, and wondered what improvements he should make at Maxfield if, by any melancholy dispensation of Providence, the property should fall into his unworthy hands. Of course there were the usual thorns among the roses.
Amongst your humble and obedient servants the present tutor of Maxfield will need to be included." "Oh, you!" said Roger, smiling; "yes, you'll need to look out how you behave, you know, or I shall have to terminate our engagement. Isn't it queer?" Queer as it was, the tutor winced at the jest, and screwed his eye-glass a little deeper into his eye.
"That's what I'm not likely to know myself," said the doctor; and he narrated the circumstances of Miss Oliphant's mysterious call. "Humph!" said the tutor. "She wants to see him in his capacity of Robert Ratman, evidently, and not of Roger Ingleton, major." "So it seemed to me." "And you say she had just come from visiting her father at Maxfield?" "Yes."
Now, however, these bright hopes were dashed, and to the captain's mind he owed his failure, first and last, to Mr Frank Armstrong. Had he not come home, he said to himself, Rosalind would have yielded. With him still at Maxfield everything came to a dead lock. Ratman could not be propitiated, still less satisfied. The accounts would be restlessly scrutinised.
On the contrary, he could honestly say he had devoted time, money, personal fatigue, to tending him. He had secured him medical attendance, he had advised the family doctor of his indisposition. He had sat up with him day and night. Was it his fault if the illness took a bad turn, and the Maxfield property changed its owner? He should like to meet the man who could lay anything at his door.
I'd give anything to get out of going to Maxfield, and have a room here in town near the galleries. It will be awful waste of time in that dull place." "Perhaps your father " began the tutor; but she took him up half angrily. "My father intends us to stay at Maxfield. In fact, you may as well know it at once, and let Roger know it too.
One day a fishing-junk hove into sight, just as if it had sailed out of a Maxfield Parrish illustration, swinging there in the mouth of a blood-red sunset ... then, like magic, appeared another and another and another....
But try as he would, his mind wandered; first to his mother; then to Maxfield and the villagers; then to his pet schemes for a model village; then to Armstrong and his studies; then to a certain pair of foils that hung in his room; then to the possibility of a yacht next summer; then to the county festivities next winter, with perhaps a ball at Maxfield; then to his approaching majority, and all the delights of unfettered manhood; then
If he procured his escape, it would be to oust him irrevocably from his inheritance. There seemed nothing for it but to do nothing and wait. In other quarters the policy of inaction found little favour. Mr Headland called up the same evening at Maxfield and demanded an interview with the tutor.
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