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Most unfortunately, as the event proved, I decided on occupying an hour or two by sea fishing. The wind shifted while we were out, and before we could get back to the harbor, the tide had turned against us. It was six o'clock when I arrived at the hotel. A little open carriage was waiting at the door. I found Romayne impatiently expecting me, and no signs of dinner on the table.
I would rather not discuss it with you, but I can't help feeling that there are circumstances that make it necessary and right for men to fight." "You don't wish to discuss this with me?" said Kathleen. "I am sorry, for I have always wished to hear a soldier who is also" the girl hesitated for a moment "a gentleman and a Christian " "Thank you, Miss Gwynne," said Romayne, with quiet earnestness.
Lord Loring was absorbed in social and political engagements. And Major Hynd true to the principle of getting away as often as possible from his disagreeable wife and his ugly children had once more left London. One day, while Mrs. Eyrecourt still lay between life and death, Romayne found his historical labors suspended by the want of a certain volume which it was absolutely necessary to consult.
I think he took me for your elder sister. Not the least like each other are we, Lady Loring? She takes after her poor dear father. He was constitutionally indolent. My sweet child, rouse yourself. You have drawn a prize in the great lottery at last. If ever a man was in love, Mr. Romayne is that man. I am a physiognomist, Lady Loring, and I see the passions in the face.
Stella was too good a daughter to suffer her mother to be treated with even the appearance of disrespect. "Oh," she said, "think how mortified and distressed my mother would be! She must be present at my marriage." An idea of a compromise occurred to Romayne. "What do you say," he proposed, "to arranging for the marriage privately and then telling Mrs.
"Dinner!" exclaimed Jack Romayne, who had meantime drawn near, determined to rehabilitate himself in the eyes of this girl as a man familiar with the decencies of polite society. "Dinner! It smells so good and we are desperately hungry." "Yes," cried Mrs. Waring-Gaunt. "My brother declared he was quite faint more than an hour ago, and now I am sure he is." "Fairly ravenous."
Romayne took up the second paper, looked at it, and threw it back again on the table with an expression of disgust. "You told me just now," he said, "that I was married to the wife of another man. And there is the judge's decision, releasing Miss Eyrecourt from her marriage to Mr. Winterfield. May I ask you to explain yourself?" "Certainly.
"My duties, Romayne, are already confided to other hands." "Then you have foreseen this?" "I have thought it possible. Your journey may be long, or it may be short you shall not go away alone." "I can think of nothing yet; my mind is a blank," Romayne confessed sadly. "I don't know where I shall go." "I know where you ought to go and where you will go," said Father Benwell, emphatically. "Where?"
But she still persisted in making light of it. "I'm as strong as a horse," she repeated, as soon as she could speak and skipped into the carriage like a young girl. "Your mother is killing herself," said Romayne. "If I could persuade her to stay with us a little while," Stella suggested, "the rest and quiet might do wonders for her. Would you object to it, Lewis?"
It was impossible to answer this plainly without entering into explanations from which Romayne shrank. He hesitated. She turned over another photograph. "I understand," she said. "You were talking of my faults." She paused, and stole another look at him. "I will try to correct my faults, if you will tell me what they are."
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