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And then, while she was still wondering, the engine began to throb like a living thing, and she was aware of Monck squeezing past her to his seat at the wheel. He did not speak, but he wrapped the rug firmly about her, and almost before she had time to thank him, they were in motion. That night-ride was one of the wildest experiences that she had ever known. Monck went like the wind.
I have written a letter to Lord Monck to complain of the second course followed up, inasmuch as there being no reason assigned for the omission of my name in the second notification, a construction ungenerous to myself and my children after me could now and hereafter be made. Excuse me for troubling you so long about that C.B. matter.
"There can be no doubt," Monck reported, "that the proposed militia arrangements were of a magnitude far beyond anything which had, up to that time, been proposed, and this circumstance caused many members, especially from Lower Canada, to vote against it; but I think there was also, on the part of a portion of the general supporters of government, an intention to intimate by their vote the withdrawal of their confidence from the administration."
And when Monck Everard Monck of all people who usually avoided all gatherings at the Club and had never been known to dance if he could find any legitimate means of excusing himself waltzed Stella through the throng, her indignation amounted almost to anger. The mess had yielded to the last man. "I call it almost brazen," she said to Mrs. Burton, the Major's wife.
She raised her eyes from her task at sound of the steps below the window, and their starry brightness under her straight black brows gave her an infinite allurement. Certainly a beautiful woman, as Monck had said, and possessing the brilliance and the wonder of youth to an almost dazzling degree!
"I'm damned if I can say it!" he decided dejectedly. Monck's fingers suddenly twisted and closed upon his. "What a funny little ass you are, Tommy!" he said. Tommy brightened a little. "It's infernally difficult taking you to task," he explained blushing a still fierier red. "You'll never speak to me again after this." Monck laughed. "Yes, I shall. I shall respect you for it. Get on with it, man!
Now that I have been married " a tinge of bitterness sounded in her voice "I suppose no one will take exception. But of course Captain Monck may see the matter in a different light. If so, pray let him do as he thinks fit!" "You bet he will!" said Tommy. "He's about the most determined cuss that ever lived." "He's a very nice man," put in Tessa jealously. Tommy laughed.
Shall I ask him to, Aunt Stella?" "Tell me first what they are saying!" Stella said, bracing herself to face the inevitable. Tessa looked at her dubiously for a moment. Somehow she would have found it easier to tell this thing to Monck himself than to Stella. And yet she had a feeling that it must be told, that Stella ought to know. She clung a little closer to her.
But I am on the way to getting it." Bernard Monck looked at him a moment longer, and let him go. "Are you sure you're wanting the right thing?" he said. It was not a question that demanded an answer, and Everard made none. He turned aside with a scarcely perceptible lift of the shoulders. "You haven't told me yet how you come to be here," he said. "Have you given up the Charthurst chaplaincy?"
They had not met for over five years, but they maintained a regular correspondence, and every month brought to Everard Monck the thin envelope directed in the square, purposeful handwriting of the man who had been during the whole of his life his nearest and best friend. Lying back in the wicker-chair, relaxed and weary, he opened the letter and began to read.
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