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The third course, to explain nothing and hasten the wedding, she rejected without hesitation. With a pervading sense of her own obligations in forming this compact it did not occur to her to ask if Lord Mountclere might not have duties of explanation equally with herself, though bearing rather on the moral than the social aspects of the case.
Neigh's letter was simply a pleading of a sudden call away which prevented his waiting till she should return; Ladywell's, though stating the same reason for leaving, was more of an upbraiding nature, and might almost have told its reader, were she to take the trouble to guess, that he knew of the business of Lord Mountclere with her to-day. 'Now, let us get out of this place, said Neigh.
She looked through the glass partition, and under the arch of the court- gate, as the wheels of the viscount's carriage were heard outside. Ethelberta ascended to a room on the first floor, Lord Mountclere was shown up, and the door closed upon them. At this time Neigh was very comfortably lounging in an arm-chair in Ethelberta's room on the second floor.
Ethelberta's show of passion went as quickly as it had come, for she felt that a splendid triumph had been put into her hands. 'Now do you see the truth? she whispered to Lord Mountclere without a drachm of feeling; pointing to Christopher and then to Picotee as like as two snowdrops now. 'I do, I do, murmured the viscount hastily.
'I thought I would stay a little while, as I had never seen a rocket-apparatus, said Picotee, faintly and strangely. 'But is he there? asked her sister impatiently. 'Yes he was. He's gone now! 'Lord Mountclere? 'No. There is no old man there at all. Mr Julian was there. A little 'Ah! came from Ethelberta, like a note from a storm-bird at night. She turned round and went into the back room.
From the few words that passed between them on the way, Mountclere became more stubborn than ever in a belief that this was a carefully laid trap of the fair Ethelberta's to ensnare his brother without revealing to him her family ties, which it therefore behoved him to make clear, with the utmost force of representation, before the fatal union had been contracted.
'But it was my own fault: for I ought to have known that these stage and platform women have what they are pleased to call Bohemianism so thoroughly engrained with their natures that they are no more constant to usage in their sentiments than they are in their way of living. Good Lord, to think she has caught old Mountclere!
In respect of the second query, whether or not, in that event, to conceal from Lord Mountclere the circumstances of her position till it should be too late for him to object to them, she found her conscience inconveniently in the way of her theory, and the oracle before her afforded no hint. 'Ah it is a point for a casuist! she said. An old treatise on Casuistry lay on the top shelf.
Meanwhile Picotee and Ethelberta went up the hill. 'If your wedding were going to be a public one, what a misfortune this delay of the packages would be, said Picotee. 'Yes, replied the elder. 'I think the bracelet the prettiest of all the presents he brought to- day do you? 'It is the most valuable. 'Lord Mountclere is very kind, is he not?
Her resolution not to go on to Paris was formed simply because Lord Mountclere himself was proceeding in that direction, which might lead to other unseemly rencounters with him had she, too, persevered in her journey.
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