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He showed much anxiety, and, fearing that she found it dull at his studio, when the sisters came to tea he begged her to give him Meason's address. Sally tossed her head; she had had enough of Meason, and her manner left no doubt as to her sincerity.
Meason killed and pillaged pretty much as he liked for a term of years, but as travel became too general along the Ohio, he removed to the wilder country south of that stream, and began to operate on the old "Natchez and Nashville Trace," one of the roadways of the South at that time, when the Indian lands were just opening to the early settlers.
He put the brown paper parcel on the table; he took off his coat and laid it on the bed, heaving, at the same time, a sigh. "Did you notice if the quarter-to-seven has been signalled?" "Yes, but don't keep on worrying; the train is coming along the embankment." "Then there will be a row to-night." "Why?" "Sally told cook to keep the dinner back; she has gone down the slonk to speak to Meason."
And a moment after he said, interested, solely interested in sentimental affection, "Sally's ideas of love seem to me very funny; if she really loves Meason, why doesn't she marry him?" "He has no money, and father would never hear of it." "Never hear of it! If I loved a girl, nothing in the world would prevent my marrying her."
Being threatened with acute melancholia, a specialist had advised a change of air; and Lady Meason had begun once more to blossom like a rose of the fully developed, cabbage order in the joy of being "one of the most notable, popular and successful hostesses of the season at Mentone."
They wouldn't have known we were here had it not been for that dog." "I must go and see who it is. Come here, sir; come here, you brute." "Supposing it is father?" "Get behind that piece of tapestry. I'll say that Meason and I were having some oysters." "Come here, sir. I'd better tie up that dog I wonder who it is?" "Open the door." "Oh! Mr. Brookes, quite an unexpected pleasure."
Grace came to the studio to lunch sometimes, and she had been betrayed into a promise not to say a word about Meason. It was never ascertained whether, in the indiscretion of the marital night, she had betrayed this trust, or whether some jealous enemy had spoken or written to Mr.
Indirectly I do not say directly she is the cause of all my difficulties. It was at her house Sally met young Meason; it was at her house Grace met that young officer for whom she is crying her eyes out; and it was at her house yes, I hadn't thought of it before it was at her house that Willy met that swindler who induced him to put two thousand pounds into the Bond Street shop.
He said the way you were carrying on with young Meason was something too disgraceful, and that every one was talking of it; he said that you had been seen crossing the canal locks, and that you had spent hours with him on the beach, and he spoke about the cart and Bamber I don't know if you ever drove there to meet him; I couldn't get anything more out of him, for he began to cry."
I thought she had promised you since she gave up Meason that she would for the future know no one that lived there." "I was thinking for the moment of Willy, not of Sally; she has not been so troublesome lately. But no sooner are we out of one trouble than we are in another. It is, of course, very regrettable that young Escott should have stabbed himself, and in my garden too.
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