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The Colonel had to go with this blank errand to the gentlemen at the "King's Arms," that were grown very impatient by this time. As we were looking out from this window in gloomy discourse, we heard presently trumpets blowing, and some of us ran to the window of the front-room, looking into the High Street of Kensington, and saw a regiment of Horse coming. "It's Ormonde's Guards," says one.
The last words, spoken a little louder than the rest, caught Mrs. Ormonde's ear as she was crossing the room, and she paused beside her sister-in-law to ask, "Take him for what? for better or worse, Katherine?" "Blundering little idiot!" thought De Burgh; while Katherine answered, with remarkable composure. "Nothing so formidable; only to be my instructor in the art of driving."
Fred thought she might have as good a chance as any one else, had she not been hampered with her two boys. It would be too dreadful if Ormonde's fancy were caught by Katherine's bold eyes and big figure. So Mrs. Fred wished that her sister-in-law might not put in an appearance.
"No dear; you have quite enough. We must go back now." "Oh, not yet, please?" The little fellow came tumbling down the bank, followed by Charlie, who immediately caught his aunt's hand and repeated, "Not yet, auntie!" "These are Mrs. Ormonde's boys, I suppose?" said Errington. "Yes; have you never seen them before?" "Never.
'I tell you what, Thyrza, said Bessie, confidentially, 'when Nelly gets old enough to keep things straight and look after father, do you know what I shall do? I mean to go to Mrs. Ormonde and ask to be took on for a housemaid. That's just what 'ud suit me. My chest ain't so bad when I'm there, and I'd rather be one of Mrs. Ormonde's servants than work anywhere else.
Ormonde's presence had doubtless been a great aid to the sufferer in her struggle with intermittent fever and mental pain. As Thyrza recovered her power of continuous thought, she showed less disposition to talk; the trouble which still hung above her seemed to impose silence. She was never quite still save when Mrs.
Ormonde's maid, she put on her dressing-gown and sat down beside it to think. She was still quivering with the nervous excitement she had striven so hard and so successfully to conceal. When Mrs. Ormonde had given her rapid explanation of who Errington was, and without a pause presented him, Katherine felt as if she must drop at his feet.
I suppose you think a rugged fellow like me would have little or no chance with the curled darlings of May Fair and South Kensington?" Mrs. Ormonde looked down on her fan, but did not speak. De Burgh laughed. "Who is going to bring her out?" he asked. "I am," with dignity. De Burgh's reply was short and simple. Ormonde's cheek and a frown to her fair brow.
Yet even this only gave her an air of shyness which was itself a grace. When Grail had entered into the conversation she was able to collect herself. Gilbert said presently: 'Miss Trent is going to take Bunce's child to Eastbourne to-morrow, to Mrs. Ormonde's. 'Indeed! Egremont exclaimed. 'I was there on Wednesday and heard that the child was coming.
Ormonde whined a good deal to me in a corner about her affection for you, her hard fate, Ormonde's brutality, etc., etc.; she is a rusee little devil." "Poor Ada! I fancy she has not had a pleasant time of it. Had she been a woman of feeling, it would have been too dreadful...." "Well, you make your mind easy on that score. Now, what about the boys?"
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