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He did not actually fleece them himself, he had too little worldly wisdom for that; but he was the decoy of a coterie of Nyms, Pistols, and Bardolphs, who gathered up the spoil of these and any unwary youth who came to Rockpier in the wake of an invalid, or to 'see life' at a fashionable watering- place.
"Indeed, Lenore," said Jenny, in her downright way, "I do not understand. You do not seem to care for him." "Of course I am wrong," said the poor girl; "but I hoped I was doing the best thing for him." Then, as Jenny made an indignant sound, "See, Jenny, when he came to Rockpier, Camilla had been a widow about three months.
Then she persuaded papa to go abroad; and I was delighted, little thinking she never meant me to go back again." "Did she not?" "Listen! I've heard her praise Rockpier and its church to the skies to one person say Mr. Bindon.
The child is competing with a club, you must know." "Not exactly, papa: it is only a little society that was set on foot at Rockpier to help us to improve ourselves." "What is your subject this month?" Frank asked. "A branch of blackberries," she answered briefly. "Ah!" said Lady Tyrrell, "I saw your pupil bringing in a delicious festoon all black and red fruit and crimson and purple leaves.
But Lady Tyrrell says she feels for her; she was brought a great deal too forward, and was made quite mistress of the house at Rockpier, being her father's darling and all, and now it is trying to her, though it is quite wholesome, to be in her proper place. It is a pity she is so bitter over it, and flies off her own way." "That boy!" said Rosamond; "I hope she does something for his good."
"She caught him in her toils two years ago at Rockpier; and now she is playing fast and loose with him withdrawing, as I believe; and at any rate keeping the poor foolish boy in such an agitation, that he can't or won't settle to his reading; and Driver thinks he will break down." "I can't think it of Lenore. Oh! good morning, Raymond!" "Good morning! May I come to breakfast number one?
Better than Rosamond, better even than Charlie, was his mother as a confidante; and though she had been surprised into her affectionate acceptance of Eleonora, it was an indescribable delight to mother and son to find themselves once more in full sympathy; while he poured out all that had been pent up ever since his winter at Rockpier.
"I am afraid so," she said; "but I had almost rather he were honestly smitten with the young one than that he believed in Camilla." "I should think no one could long do that," said Julius. "I don't know. He met them when he was nursing that poor young Scotsman at Rockpier, and got fascinated. He has never been quite the same since that time!" said the mother anxiously.
All he had done all the way down was to impress upon her, in the fulness of his knowledge of the place, that the only habitable houses in Rockpier were in that direction the nearer to Verdure Point the more perfect! Terry listened with smiling eyes, sometimes viewing the lover as a bore, sometimes as a curious study, confirming practical statements.
Yes, Miss Vivian was walking home; and there was a companion by her side feeling as if that dark, hard gravelled road were the pebbly beach of Rockpier. "When do you go to London?" she asked. "To-morrow afternoon. Wish me well through, Lenore." "Indeed I do." "Say it again, Lenore! Give me the elixir that will give me power to conquer everything." "Don't say such exaggerated things."
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