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And Constance breathed, 'How delicious! Mr. Rollstone perhaps had his doubts of the figures Mrs. and Miss Morton would cut in society, but he contented himself with saying, 'It may be well to moderate your expectations, Miss Ida, and to remember that Lord Northmoor is not compulsorily bound to consult any interests but his own. 'If he does not, it is perfectly abominable, cried Mrs.
Oh, if he had but lived and been eldest, he would have become his honours ever so much better! 'And oh, Mr. Rollstone, what are we? put in Ida breathlessly, while Rose squeezed Constance's hand in schoolgirl fashion. 'Indeed, Miss Ida, I fear I cannot flatter you with any change in your designation.
Constance had, of course, to spend her Christmas holidays at home, where she had not been for nine months. Her brother met her at the London terminus to go down with her, and there, to her great joy, she also saw Rose Rollstone on the platform.
Ida would have done her utmost to keep her brother and Rose Rollstone apart at any other time, but she was at the moment only too glad to divert his attention, and allowed him, without protest, to walk up to Rose, shake hands with her, and rejoice in her coming home for good; but, do what Ida would, she could not keep him from recurring to the thought of the little cousin of whom he had been very fond.
Morton tried to recollect that she was a great lady and he had been a servant, force of habit made her feel his condescension when he held out his puffy white hand; and, with a gracious bend of his yellow-gray head, said, 'Allow me to offer my congratulations, Mrs. Morton. I little suspected my proximity to a lady so nearly allied to the aristocracy. 'I am sure you are very kind, Mr. Rollstone.
'Very strange, said the gentlemen one to the other, Lord Northmoor adding 'Thank you, Miss Rollstone; I will not detain you, unless you can tell me more. Rose was glad to be released, though pained and vexed not to dare to express her reasons for full certainty. 'Is this only a girl's fancy? sighed the father. 'I think she is a sensible girl.
But I'll throw everything up till I find the boy! He knelt up in his bed, laid his hand on his Bible his uncle's gift and solemnly swore it. And Herbert was another youth from that hour. When he had brought his ideas into some little order, the foremost was that he must see Rose Rollstone, discover how much she knew or guessed, and bind her to silence.
Good-night! Then, with an afterthought, when he had almost shut his door, he turned the handle again to say, 'Who did you say saw thought she saw my boy? Where? 'Rose Rollstone, uncle; first at the North Station then at Waterloo! And Louisa Hall too! 'I thank you; good-night!
Will you let me fill this up? This can be repaid, he added, with a smile, 'the rest, never. Mr. Rollstone might have been distressed at the venture on which his daughter's savings had gone; but he was perfectly happy and triumphant now, except that, even more than Mrs.
Ida thought it rather 'low' in Herbert and Constance to care for the old butler's daughter, but their mother had a warm spot in the bottom of her heart, and liked a gossip with Mrs. Rollstone too much to forbid the house to her daughter, besides that she shrank from inflicting on her so much distress. So during the fortnight that Rose spent at home the girls were together most of the morning.
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