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When she had seated her guests, Diana put the snow-drops she had gathered into an empty vase, and looked round her happily, as though now she had put the last touch to all her preparations. She talked readily of her cousin's coming to Mrs. Roughsedge; and she inquired minutely of Hugh when the next meet was to be, that she might take her guest to see it.
Roughsedge secretly wondered whether this statement was meant to account for the frequent presence of Oliver Marsham at Beechcote. She had herself met him in the lane riding away from Beechcote no less than three times during the past fortnight. "Please come in to tea!" said Diana; "I am just expecting my cousin Miss Merton. Mrs.
He looked with distaste at the nearness of the house; and at the group of figures which had paused in front of them, waiting for them, on the farther edge of the broad lawn. "You have convicted me of an odious, exclusive, bullying temper or you think you have and all you will allow me in the way of victory is that I got the best of it because Captain Roughsedge wasn't there!" "Not at all.
And I think, besides, the Vicar might have been satisfied with your father's opinion he made no complaint about the books. Oh, now the Miss Bertrams are going to stop us! They'll of course know all about it!" If Captain Roughsedge growled ugly words into his mustache, his mother was able to pretend not to hear them, in the gentle excitement of shaking hands with the Miss Bertrams.
"Big fishes mate with big fishes minnows with minnows." "Don't run down your own son, sir. Who, pray, is too good for him?" "The world is divided into wise men, fools, and mothers. The characters of the first two are mingled disproportionately in the last," said Dr. Roughsedge, patiently enduring the kiss his wife inflicted on him.
But if Diana was not acquainted with these things in the ore, so to speak, she was more than a little acquainted with the missiles that could be forged from them. That very afternoon Hugh Roughsedge had pointed her to some of the best. She took them up a little wildly now for her coolness was departing and for a time Marsham could hardly keep his footing.
Her mock and smiling submission, as she stood, slender and lovely, amid the shadows of the hall, seemed to Hugh Roughsedge, as he looked back upon her, the prettiest piece of acting. Then she turned, and he knew that she was going back to Marsham. At the same moment he saw Mrs. Colwood's little figure disappearing up the main stairway. Frowning and silent, he followed his mother out of the house.
"But he will!" said Captain Roughsedge. "Don't give in, Miss Mallory." "Ah!" said Mrs. Roughsedge, as the door opened, "shall we ask Mr. Marsham?" Diana turned with a startled movement. It was evident that Marsham was not expected. But Mrs. Roughsedge also inferred from a shrewd observation of her hostess that he was not unwelcome.
Then she fired up, refused to withdraw the names, and offered to resign. Miss Mallory's subscription to the Club is, however, much larger than mine. I shall therefore resign protesting, of course, against the reason which induces me to take this course." "What's wrong with the books?" asked Hugh Roughsedge. The Vicar drew himself up. "I have given my reasons."
"She can't do any good, and it will keep her awake at nights. I object altogether." However, Mrs. Roughsedge, having first dropped a pacifying kiss on her husband's gray hair, went up-stairs to put on her things, declaring that she was going there and then to Beechcote. The doctor was left to ponder over the gossip in question, and what Diana could possibly do to meet it.
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