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"Let us go and consult Violet," said Fabian Rockharrt, rising and leading the way to the nursery, which had been hastily fitted up for the accommodation of the Rockharrt baby and her nurse, and where he felt sure of finding the young mother, too. Violet, when told of the scheme to go immediately to Washington and see her old friends, was more than "pleased;" she was delighted.
Rockharrt had made the public announcement that he did yesterday, I should have denounced the act as an unpardonable outrage; but of him I must say that he must have labored under some strange hallucination to have made such reckless assertions without one shadow of foundation. You yourself must have known that there was not one syllable of truth in his announcement." "My dearest Mrs.
Rockharrt, went down to the reading room to send his own and his wife's cards to Chief Justice and Mrs. Pendletime, and to collect Washington gossip. Corona changed her traveling dress, went down into the ladies' parlor, and sent her card to the rooms of the Nevilles. And presently there entered to her a very handsome middle-aged pair.
What then would be your fate at your age a fading rose past thirty-seven years old? Sooner or later, and very little later, the poor-house or the hospital. Better a sweet, tidy little hanging and be done with it, if possible." "You are a fiend to talk to me so! a fiend! Fabian Rockharrt," exclaimed Rose, bursting into hysterical sobs and tears.
The hackman jumped down, went up and rang the bell. Then he came back to the carriage and opened the door. Mr. Rockharrt got out, followed by his granddaughter. "Wait here!" he said to the hackman, as he went to the door, which was promptly opened by an attendant. "I wish to see the physician in charge here, or the head of the hospital, or whatever may be his official title," said the Iron King.
She had lost her sense of honor, or she never would have married Mr. Rockharrt, even for a refuge. But, through all her sins and sorrows, she had not lost her tender heart, her sweet temper, or her amiable desire to serve and to please. She had now a hard time with her aged, despotic husband.
"I do not approve of this petting, coddling, and indulging women. It makes the weak creatures weaker. If you choose to seclude your wife or allow her to seclude herself on account of a purely physiological condition, I will not allow Mrs. Rockharrt to go near her until she goes to return her call."
Rockharrt and Cora had few arrangements to make, for the autocrat had warned them that they were to take only sufficient for the voyage, as they could buy whatever they needed on the other side. A few days before they left Rockhold, Rule Rothsay came uninvited to visit his beloved Cora. Mr. Rockharrt happened to be the first to see him, and received him well.
I will go out and take counsel with the committee," he said, and he turned and strode out of the drawing room. When he reached the hall, however, he found that the officials had gone to pursue their search for the missing man elsewhere. The men of his own party were nowhere to be seen. The porter, Jasper, was the only occupant of the hall, and Aaron Rockharrt opened the hall door and walked out.
I hate company! I am going to the country to get rid of company. So see that you do not, any of you, invite any one to visit us." The next morning the Rockharrt family left town for North End, where they arrived early in the afternoon. A monotonous season followed, at least for the two ladies, who led a very secluded life at the dreary old stone house on the mountain side.
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