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It was thus that the judge had declared to his daughter his opinion of what had better be done in that matter of Felix Graham. Then he had gone on to declare that he had given his permission to Felix Graham to say anything that he had got to say, and finally had undertaken to invite Felix Graham to spend the assize week at Noningsby.
To the game of snap-dragon, as played at Noningsby, a ghost was always necessary, and aunt Madeline had played the ghost ever since she had been an aunt, and there had been any necessity for such a part. But in previous years the spectators had been fewer in number and more closely connected with the family. "I think we must drop the ghost on this occasion," she said, coming up to her brother.
It would be all over with me then." "You should be more moderate in your feelings, Mr. Orme." "It's all very well saying that; but you wouldn't be moderate if Noningsby were on fire, or if you thought the judge was going to die." "Good gracious, Mr. Orme!" "It's the same sort of thing to me, I can tell you. A man can't be moderate when he feels that he should like to break his own neck.
"Undoubtedly I shall do so, unless I dispose of it this morning. When we were at Noningsby together, I ventured to tell you what I felt for you " "Did you, Mr. Staveley? If your feelings were anything beyond the common, I don't remember the telling." "And then," he continued, without choosing to notice her words, "you affected to believe that I was not in earnest in what I said to you."
Felix!" said Marian, as her aunt Madeline kissed her in her little bed on wishing her good night. "Don't you, aunt Mad ?" And so it was that Christmas-day was passed at Noningsby. Christmas-day was always a time of very great trial to Mrs. Mason of Groby Park.
He had been over to Hamworth that day on a very special mission regarding it, and as he was not inclined to speak of what he had then seen and done, he held his tongue altogether. "I want you to do me a great favour," Lucius had said to him, when the two were together in the breakfast-parlour at Noningsby; "but I am afraid it will give you some trouble."
"Well, if you are to live, I don't wish you any evil. I do wish you hadn't come to Noningsby, that's all. Good-bye to you." And he held out his hand, which Graham took. "We shall be good friends yet, for all that is come and gone," said Graham; and then there were no more words between them.
And now had arrived a special hunting morning, special, because the meet was in some degree a show meet, appropriate for ladies, at a comfortable distance from Noningsby, and affording a chance of amusement to those who sat in carriages as well as to those on horseback.
Of Judge Staveley himself much need not be said now, except that he lived at Noningsby near Alston, distant from The Cleeve about nine miles, and that at his house Sophia Furnival had been invited to pass the coming Christmas. His son was a handsome clever fellow, who had nearly succeeded in getting the Newdegate, and was now a member of the Middle Temple.
"By George, Graham," he had said, "the finest girl in London is coming down to Noningsby; upon my word I think she is." "And brought there expressly for your delectation, I suppose." "Oh no, not at all; indeed, she is not exactly in my style; she is too, too, too in point of fact, too much of a girl for me. She has lots of money, and is very clever, and all that kind of thing."
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