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The result, from his point of view, led him into a change of residence. He left his hotel and took a lodging in the nearest bystreet to Mr. Restall's palace at Kensington. "Pray be careful," Miss Restall wrote; "I have tried to get you a card for our garden party. But that hateful creature, Margery, has evidently spoken to my father; I am not trusted with any invitation cards.
"You want my name in return, I suppose? You young puppy, you shall have it! My name is Restall." He turned his back and walked off. Cosway took the only course now open to him. He returned to his lodgings. The next day no letter reached him from Adela. He went to the postoffice. No letter was there. The day wore on to evening and, with the evening, there appeared a woman who was a stranger to him.
Bear it patiently, dear, as I do, and let me hear if you have succeeded in finding a lodging near us." Not submitting to this first disappointment very patiently, Cosway sent his reply to the post-office, addressed to A. R. the initials of Adela Restall. The next day the impatient lover applied for another letter. It was waiting for him, but it was not directed in Adela's handwriting.
The door was suddenly unlocked. "I sent no message," said Adela, as they confronted each other on the threshold. In the silence of utter bewilderment they went together into the summer-house. At Adela's request, Cosway repeated the message that he had received, and described the woman who had delivered it. The description applied to no person known to Miss Restall. "Mrs.
A kitchen skewer it appeared was all that was needed to complete his reconstruction in the avenue. Norah darted off for a kitchen skewer, while Restall drank. And then there was a drift to tennis, and Rachel and I were partners.
"Leave your business in my hands," said the lawyer, on the journey to town, "and go and amuse yourself on the Continent. I can't blame you for falling in love with Miss Restall; I ought to have foreseen the danger, and waited till she had left us before I invited you to my house. But I may at least warn you to carry the matter no further.
"Don't trifle with me!" he answered fretfully; "tell me exactly what the servant said." The mistress repeated the words. Miss Restall had passed a quieter night, and had been able for a few hours to leave her room. He asked next if any reply to his letter had arrived. No reply had been received. If Adela definitely abstained from writing to him, the conclusion would be too plain to be mistaken.
Your enemy's object could only be to provoke you into planning an elopement and, your arrangements once completed, to inform Mr. Restall, and to part you and Miss Adela quite as effectually as if you were at opposite ends of the world. Oh, you will undoubtedly be parted! Spiteful, isn't it? And, what is worse, the mischief is as good as done already." Cosway rose from his chair.
If you had eight thousand instead of eight hundred a year, Mr. Restall would think it an act of presumption on your part to aspire to his daughter's hand, unless you had a title to throw into the bargain. Look at it in the true light, my dear boy; and one of these days you will thank me for speaking plainly." Cosway promised to "look at it in the true light."
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