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Then he said never, as long as he lived and could prevent it; that he had heard something of my infatuation, so as I am not given that way he had made inquiries, and found the family was most unsatisfactory. Then he had come here yesterday on purpose to see you darling," turning to me, "and that he had judged for himself. Lady Merrenden rose from her seat and came and took my other hand.
"He probably enjoyed himself don't you think so? and he had the good luck to die in his zenith," I said. "He was once engaged to Lady Merrenden, you know. She was Lady Sophia Vavasour then, and absolutely devoted to him, but Mrs. Carruthers came between them and carried him off she was years older than he was, too, and as clever as paint." "Poor papa seems to have been a weak creature, I fear."
"Merrenden, as you know, is the best judge of shooting in England," Lady Katherine went on, in an injured voice. "Sophia is hardly likely to recommend his nephew so highly if he were not pretty good." "But you don't know the puppy, Katherine." My heart fell. "That is not the least consequence; we are almost related. Merrenden is my first cousin, you forget that, I suppose!"
Carruthers and Lady Merrenden the very opposites of each other and they had evidently both adored papa, and both, according to their natures, had taken an interest in me in consequence, the child of a third woman who had superseded them both! Papa must have been extraordinarily fascinating, for to the day of her death Mrs.
He folded me in his arms, and we heard the door shut. Lady Merrenden had left us alone. Oh, it was anguish and divine bliss at the same time the next half-hour. "I will never forget you, and never in this world will I take another woman, I swear to God!" he said, at the end of it. "If we must part, then life is finished for me of all joy." "And for me, too, Robert!"
"Oh, tell us, dear child, how did it happen, and what did you do, and where did you meet!" said Lady Merrenden. Robert held my hand. Then I tried to tell them as well as I could, and they listened breathlessly. "I was very rude, I fear," I ended with, "but I was so angry." "It is glorious," said Robert. "But the best part is that you intended to give me yourself with no prospect of riches.
Lady Ver did not speak a word on the way back, and kissed me frigidly as she went into her room; then she called out: "I am tired, snake-girl; don't think I am cross. Good-night." And so I crept up to bed. To-morrow is Saturday and my visit ends. After my lunch with Lady Merrenden, I am a wanderer on the face of the earth. Where shall I wander to?
Then I told him about meeting Lady Merrenden, and her asking me to luncheon, and about her having been in love with papa, and about the duke having looked me through and through with an expression of dislike. "Oh, I see it all," said Robert, holding me closer. "Aunt Sophia and I are great friends, you know; she has always been like my mother, who died when I was a baby.
Lady Merrenden was up-stairs in the small drawing-room, and she rose to meet me, a book in her hand, when I was announced. Her manners are so beautiful in her own home gracious, and not the least patronizing. "I am so glad to see you," she said. "I hope you won't be bored, but I have not asked any one to meet you, only my nephew Torquilstone is coming.
"Torquilstone was horrid, I can see," said Lady Merrenden. "What did he say, Robert? Tell us everything. Evangeline would wish it too, I am sure, as well as I." Robert looked very pale and stern; one can see how firm his jaw is in reality, and how steady his dear, blue eyes. "I told him I loved Evangeline, whom I understood he had met yesterday, and that I intended to marry her."
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