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"That's the last time I ever take a lady out, driving without a man-servant behind me," quoth the M.F.H. "What we should have done without your timely assistance, sir, I really cannot say; in another minute she would have kicked the trap into a thousand bits. You have saved my niece's life, Mr. Pryme."
Let me go, at all events!" she adds, with a sudden agony of entreaty as the guests were heard advancing towards the door of the inner hall. And as Helen made not the slightest sign of moving, Beatrice slipped past her and ran lightly and swiftly across the hall upstairs, and disappeared along the landing above just as Captain Kynaston and Mr. Herbert Pryme appeared upon the scene below.
It was a proof of how great and real was her love to Herbert Pryme that she fully recognized that, in becoming his wife, she would have to live in London entirely and to give up her beloved hunting for his sake.
"Lady Pryme, we make place for you." And she crossed to Cornelia. Cornelia kept her eyes fixed on Adela's mouth, as one looks at a place whence a venomous reptile has darted out. Her eyelids shut, and she stood a white sculpture of pain, pitiable to see. Emilia took her hand, encouraging the tightening fingers with a responsive pressure.
Pryme, and under this additional source of irritation the attorney's diurnal drunkenness had taken on its most ill-tempered and brutal phase. On the Friday morning, before setting out for Rotherby, he told his wife that he had invited 'four men' to dinner at half-past six that evening.
That was how Herbert Pryme came to be once more re-instated in the good graces of his lady love's father and mother. Mr. Esterworth contrived to give them so terrifying an account of the danger in which Beatrice had been placed, and so graphic and highly-coloured a description of Herbert Pryme's pluck and sagacity in rushing to her rescue, that Mr. and Mrs.
Adela found it necessary to address some such comforting exclamation as 'Goodness gracious! to her observant spirit. In the park-path, leading to the wood, Arabella was seen as they came out the young branches that fringed the firs. She hurried up. "I have been looking for you. Papa has arrived with Sir Twickenham Pryme, who dines with us." Adela unhesitatingly struck a blow.
"No, I am afraid I shall never be asked to Shadonake again," answered the younger man, gloomily. "Why, I thought you and Beatrice forgive me but is it not the case?" "Her parents have stopped all that, Kynaston." "But I am sure Beatrice herself will never let it stop; I know her too well," said Maurice, cheerily. "There are laws in connection with minors," began Mr. Pryme, solemnly.
Miller flung down his papers, and turning round in his chair, rested both elbows upon the table. "Mr. Pryme," he said, with decision, "I think it is best that I should be frank with you!" He looked the young barrister full in the face. "Certainly, certainly, if you please, Mr.
Beatrice, safely on the ground, was examining ruefully the amount of damage done to the dog-cart, and Mr. Esterworth was shaking hands with his deliverer. It was Herbert Pryme.
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