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As she passed through the village she fell in with the Roughsedges: the doctor, with his wide-awake on the back of his head, a book and a bulging umbrella under his arm; Mrs. Roughsedge, in a new shawl, and new bonnet-strings, with a prodigal flutter of side curls beside her ample countenance. Hugh, it appeared, was expected by an evening train.
"She must be made happy!" exclaimed Ferrier "she must! Is there no one besides Oliver?" Sir James drew himself up. "I hope she has put all thought of Oliver out of her mind long since. Well! I had a letter from Lady Felton last week dear woman that! all the love-affairs in the county come to roost in her mind. She talks of young Roughsedge. Perhaps you don't know anything of the gentleman?"
The door shut behind him. "Won't you sit down?" "I think not. You must be very busy. I only came to say a few words. Miss Mallory!" He still held her hand. Diana trembled, and looked up. " I fear you may have thought me harsh. I blame myself in many respects. Will you forgive me? Mrs. Roughsedge has told me what you wished her to tell me.
Roughsedge, that "mothers never know how clever their sons are." Perhaps the blindness extends to other eyes than mothers? Meanwhile, she got from him all the news she could. He had been, it seemed, concerned in the vast operation of bringing a new African Empire into being.
He came along at a great pace, his lean figure closely sheathed in his long clerical coat, his face a little frowning and set. At the sight of Mrs. Roughsedge he drew up, and greeted the mother and son. "May I have a few words with you?" he asked Mrs. Roughsedge, as he turned back with them toward the Beechcote lane. "I don't know whether you are acquainted, Mrs.
Roughsedge, next day, kindled a passion in the girl's eyes by some tales of the step-daughter. Mrs. Colwood wondered whether, indeed, she could be bored, as Mrs. Minchin had not achieved it. Those who talk easily and well, like Diana, are less keenly aware, she thought, of the platitudes of their neighbors. They are not defenceless, like the shy and the silent.
On all these topics she overflowed with much fun and unfailing good-humor. So that after half an hour spent with Mrs. Roughsedge and Hugh in the little drawing-room at the White Cottage, Diana's aspect was very different from what it had been when she arrived. Hugh, however, had noticed her pallor and depression.
"If they are nice, let them stand on their own merits. If not, they are disagreeable people who know a deal too much about you. Miss Diana should have consulted me!" The Roughsedges arrived early, and found Diana alone in the drawing-room. Again Captain Roughsedge thought her pale, and was even sure that she had lost flesh.
"I disliked being beaten," said Diana, candidly; "especially as it was only my ignorance that was beaten not my cause." "Shall we begin again?" Through his gayety, however, a male satisfaction in victory pierced very plainly. Diana winced a little. "No, no! I must go back to Captain Roughsedge first and get some new arguments!" "Roughsedge!" he said, in surprise. "Roughsedge?
Colwood and I are so excited! we have never had a visitor here before. I came out to try and find some snow-drops for her room. There is really nothing in the greenhouses and I can't make the house look nice." Certainly as they entered and passed through the panelled hall to the drawing-room Hugh Roughsedge saw no need for apology.
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