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'We went to hear the new opera at the Savoy last night, she said to Miss Barfoot, with a smile of remembered enjoyment. 'Did you? Miss Nunn and I were there. Everard gazed at his cousin with humorous incredulity. 'Is it possible? he exclaimed. 'You were at the Savoy? 'Where is the impossibility? Why shouldn't Miss Nunn and I go to the theatre? 'I appeal to Mrs. Widdowson.
Nunn carried a canvas bag containing, among other things, 250 capital cigars, tobacco, matches and 300 cartridges. Then we had good maps of the island and current charts of the Gulf of Mantabano, with its hundreds of rocky inlets, spreading everywhere along the south coast. But, armed as we were, it would never do to be picked up by any Spanish boat or patrol anywhere near the rebel border.
Three months went by, and on a day of summer, when the wooded hills and green lanes and rich meadows of Clevedon looked their best, when the Channel was still and blue, and the Welsh mountains loomed through a sunny haze, Rhoda Nunn came over from the Mendips to see Miss Madden. It could not be a gladsome meeting, but Rhoda was bright and natural, and her talk as inspiriting as ever.
Of course you will let your friends make inquiries for you? 'Yes. I shall tell my sisters, and no doubt they will go to Miss Nunn at once. I don't want to do anything rash. But it will be all right I mean, he has told me the truth about everything. You would be sure of that if you knew him. Mildred, with hands before her on the table, made the tips of her fingers meet.
'But you wouldn't say so, Miss Nunn, if you knew how terribly hard it is for many girls to find a place, even now. 'I know it perfectly well. And I wish it were harder. I wish girls fell down and died of hunger in the streets, instead of creeping to their garrets and the hospitals. I should like to see their dead bodies collected together in some open place for the crowd to stare at.
It would have been better to discourage this man's confidences; yet they flattered her so pleasantly, and afforded such a fruitful subject for speculation, that she could not obey the prompting of prudence. 'Do you mean, she said, 'that Miss Nunn seems to disguise her feelings? 'It is supposed to be wrong isn't it? for a man to ask one woman her opinion of another.
Our friend here procured us horses, and, bidding him good-bye, Nunn and I started on our ride to Cajio. We were both greatly elated over the success of our adventure. Our friends had procured for us police passports and gun permits under the names of Parish and Ellis. I had a chronometer, several valuable diamonds, a revolver and gun.
It was a warm afternoon, and so still that he heard the fall of yellow leaves as he walked hither and thither along the alleys. His failure to obtain an interview with Miss Nunn annoyed him; but for her presence in the house he would not have got into this habit of going there.
She had no desire to return to her manor, and for a season in London she cared as little. She would have been glad to remain on Nevis, but to this she knew that Mrs. Nunn would not hearken. London was inevitable; and possibly she would meet some intelligent and interesting man who would help her to bury romance and fulfil the proper destiny of woman.
Between this lady and Miss Barfoot there were considerable divergences of opinion, yet they agreed on a sufficient number of points to like each other very well. Occasionally one of Mrs. Cosgrove's protegees passed into Miss Barfoot's hands, abandoning the thought of matrimony for study in Great Portland Street. Rhoda Nunn, also, had a liking for Mrs.
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