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Almost all her family had been water-drinkers from infancy, and though Major Harewood called teetotalism a superstitious contempt of Heaven's good gifts, and disapproved of supplementing the baptismal vow, his brother the Rector had found it expedient, for the sake of the parish, to embrace formally the temperance movement, and thus there had been little difficulty in giving way to Alda's desire that, at the luncheon-table, Adrian should never see wine or beer, and she insisted that the same rule should prevail at Rockquay.
So, with the General politely expressing that there was no saying what Rockquay owed to the hearty co-operation of such birds of passage as herself and her brothers, she travelled on to the charity stall, which Miss Mohun had quaintly dressed in the likeness of an old-fashioned school, with big alphabet and samplers, flourished copies, and a stuffed figure of a 'cont-rare-y' naughty boy, with a magnificent fool's cap.
She went out to the post-office at the first moment when she could hope to find the telegraph office at work, and just as she had turned from it, she met a girl in a dark, long, ill-fitting jacket and black hat, with a basket in her hand. "Lydia!" exclaimed Dolores, using the old Rockquay name. "Miss Dolores!" she cried. "Yes, yes. You are here! I saw you last night." "Me! Me!
The one point of union between the parishes of Rockstone and Rockquay was a choral society, whereof Mr. Flight of St. Kenelm's was a distinguished light, and which gave periodical concerts in the Masonic Hall. It being musical, Miss Mohun had nothing to do with it except the feeling it needful to give her presence to the performances.
"Really," said Gerald, "I can't say I think your boy came out the worst in it, though I must own the Rockquay Advertiser bestows most of the honours of the affair on the youthful baronet! You say he blew his own trumpet," added Gerald, turning to Anna. "The reporter came and beset us," said Anna, in a displeased voice.
The time was fixed for the first week in August, the only one when engagements would permit the Rotherwood family to be present for the opening, and when the regatta was apt to fill Rockquay with visitors. The place was to be the top of the cliffs of Rockstone, where the gardens of the Cliff Hotel, of Beechcroft Cottage, Rocca Marina, and Carrara, belonging respectively to Miss Mohun, Mr.
'We shall have Fergus reporting that he's a petroleuse, put in Jasper. 'No, a petroleuse is a woman. 'I like Mr. White, said Fly; 'but, Gillian, you don't think it is true that he is going to marry your Aunt Jane? There was a great groan, and Japs observed 'Some one told us Rockquay was a hotbed of gossip, and we seem to have got it strong.
I hurried away the moment I learnt that that her affections were not otherwise engaged. I never saw any one like her. She has haunted me ever since those days at Rockquay; but- but I was told that she cared for your nephew, and I could not take advantage of him in his absence. And now I have but three days more."
They carried it home to their seniors, and of course the verdict was 'too strong for Rockquay atmosphere," said his aunt. "So it did not even go to Uncle Lance," said Anna. "Shall you try the 'Pursuivant'?" "On the contrary, I shall put in the pepper and salt I regretted, and try the 'Censor'." "Indeed?" observed his uncle, in a tone of surprise.
"Were you there?" cried Anna. "Yes. I always wonder how she can look the same after such adventures," said Mysie. "You know it is much the same as my father's paper in the Scientific World," said Dolores. "Nobody over reads that, so it won't signify," was the uncomplimentary verdict. "And," added Mysie, "Mr. Brownlow would do a history of Rockquay, and that would be worth having."
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