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Good God, can it be possible? Faith blinked in alarm, without speaking. 'Did you never hear anything of Lord Mountclere when we lived at Sandbourne? 'I knew the name no more. 'No, no of course you did not. Well, though I never saw his face, to my knowledge, till a short time ago, I know enough to say that, if earnest representations can prevent it, this marriage shall not be.
Perhaps I may. So that there is a chance of our meeting again. 'Yes; but I do not leave Rouen till the afternoon. I first shall go to the cathedral, and drive round the city. Lord Mountclere smiled pleasantly. There seemed a sort of encouragement in her words.
'Yet I think I will ask you to wait, she added, not liking to dismiss Neigh in a hurry; for she was not insensible to his perseverance in seeking her over all these miles of sea and land; and secondly, she feared that if he were to leave on the instant he might run into the arms of Lord Mountclere and Ladywell.
Had he been young and gaily caparisoned, she might have done it; but his age, the clumsy trappings of rustic make, and his needy woful look of hard servitude, were too much to endure. 'Many come and picnic here, she said serenely, 'and the animal may have been left till they return from some walk. 'True, said Lord Mountclere, without the slightest suspicion of the truth.
'He said he was a sly old dog apparently, to hear how he swore in whispers. This affair is what made Mr. Julian so late that he had no time to call here. Lord Mountclere's ankle if it was Lord Mountclere was badly sprained. But the servants were not injured beyond a scratch on the coachman's face. Then they got another carriage and drove at once back again.
Tara O'Fanagan, who had a gold-clamped tooth, which shone every now and then, asked Ethelberta if she would amuse them by telling a story, since nobody present, except Lord Mountclere, had ever heard one from her lips. Seeing that Ethelberta had been working at that art as a profession, it can hardly be said that the question was conceived with tact, though it was put with grace.
At the last moment he said, in somewhat agitated tones, and with what appeared to be a renewal of the respect which had been imperceptibly dropped since they crossed the Channel, 'I was not aware of your engagement to Mr. Neigh. I fear I have been acting mistakenly on that account. 'There is no engagement as yet, said she. Lord Mountclere brightened like a child.
'Ethelberta, said Lord Mountclere, in an agony of trouble, 'don't be vexed! It was an inconsiderate trick I own it. Do what you will, but do not desert me now! I could not bear it you would kill me if you were to leave me. Anything, but be mine.
Doncastle uttered a faint exclamation and leant back in her chair: the bare possibility of the truth of Chickerel's claims to such paternity shook her to pieces when she viewed her intimacies with Ethelberta during the past season the court she had paid her, the arrangements she had entered into to please her; above all, the dinner-party which she had contrived and carried out solely to gratify Lord Mountclere and bring him into personal communication with the general favourite; thus making herself probably the chief though unconscious instrument in promoting a match by which her butler was to become father-in-law to a peer she delighted to honour.
'Of course, of course, said Lord Mountclere. 'And I am only too happy to go to any height with you. 'Since you so kindly offer, we will go to the very top of the spire up through the fog and into the sunshine, said Ethelberta.
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