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"Yes, sir, and gone up to his room," the girl answered. "He is out of sorts to-day. I have never seen him so troublesome. He has threatened to discharge us all." "Don't mind him." Mostyn's voice sounded to him as if uttered by some tongue other than his own. He half fancied that the maid, for reasons peculiar to her class, had a sort of contempt for him.
It was but a passing glance of a small, blonde man with white eyelashes, seemingly too shy to raise his eyes; and she was too stringently occupied with other thoughts to notice him further. Owing to her exertions and Monsignor Mostyn's, a large audience had been collected, and though the month was September, there were many fashionable, influential and musical people present.
"I have succeeded in keeping my mind off of it fairly well so far," he declared; "but still, if anything of importance has taken place down there I'd like to know it." "Of course, you would," Saunders answered; "and from now on you'd fairly itch to get back to your desk. Oh, I know you!" "Not if everything was all right." There was a touch of rising doubt in Mostyn's voice.
"He was well," he said, "and made all the usual inquiries as to your health." And both Ruth and Ethel understood that he wished them to know of Mostyn's presence in the city, and to be prepared for meeting him; but did not care to discuss the subject further, at least at that time.
He started to speak, but ended by saying nothing. "Yes, I hate her," Marie went on. "I hate her for the way she is acting." "The way she is acting?" The echo was a faint, undecided one, and Mostyn's eyes groped back to the wayward face at his side. "Yes, and it is town talk," Marie went on. "You know people in the lower and middle classes will gossip about you lucky high-flyers.
Mostyn's case till Friday; and in the interval she would have time to put herself under her mother's care. She thanked him, weeping, and in her old, pretty way kissed his hands, and "vowed he had saved her life, and she would forever remember his goodness." Mostyn mocked at her "play-acting," and was sternly reproved by the Justice; and then Tyrrel and Ethel took charge of Mrs.
"Yes, and you must let me carry you. You know I used to love to carry my own little boy like this just like this." The child's arm, already on Mostyn's shoulder, slid closer to his neck till it quite encircled it. The soft, warm hand touched Mostyn's chin. "Mama and papa said I must call you 'Uncle Dick," but you are not my really, really uncle, are you?" "No, but I want to be.
Then Mostyn's merry mood became sentimental, and his words were charged with soft meanings and looks of adoration, and every tone and every movement made to express far more than the tongue would have dared to utter. As this flirtation progressed for on Dora's part it was only vanity and flirtation Ethel grew more and more uneasy.
"It won't do any good to mislead you. The little fellow has a weak heart, as I explained the last time he was ill, and it seems worse now. Then then, I am sorry to say that I detect strong symptoms of peritonitis. If I could have seen him a week ago I presume the fact of your wife being away, and you being busy at the bank " Mostyn's head rocked like a stone balanced on a pivot. "Yes," he said.
"Whom did they borrow from?" "Fred Mostyn's father." "The devil! Excuse me, Ethel but the name suits and may stand." "The dear old Squire would have taken the fault on himself if he could have done so. They that wronged him were his own, and they were dead. He never spoke of them but with affection." "Poor Percival!
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