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Well! the spectator admitted it unwillingly so long as the debater, the orator, were still desirable, still lovely. She stole a glance at Captain Roughsedge. Was he, too, so unconscious of sex, of opportunity? Ah! that she doubted!
"Don't kiss me, Patricia don't tread on my proofs go away and tell Jane not to forget my tea because you have gone out." Mrs. Roughsedge departed, and the doctor, who was devoted to her, sank at once into that disorderly welter of proofs and smoke which represented to him the best of the day. The morning he reserved for hard work, and during the course of it he smoked but one pipe.
But Diana had ceased to listen. Mrs. Roughsedge, turning toward her, and with increasing foreboding, saw, as it were, the cloud of an inward agony, suddenly recalled, creep upon the fleeting brightness of her look, as the evening shade mounts upon and captures a sunlit hill-side. The mother, in spite of her native optimism, had never cherished any real hope of her son's success.
Diana pressed the speaker's hand to her lips. But from Marion Vincent, the girl's thoughts, as she wandered in the summer garden, had passed on to the news which Mrs. Roughsedge had brought her. Oliver was speaking every night, almost, in the villages round Beechcote. Last week he had spoken at Beechcote itself. Since Mrs.
Roughsedge seated herself, and slowly untied her bonnet-strings. "My dear, you seem discomposed." "I hate men!" said Mrs. Roughsedge, vehemently. The doctor raised his eyebrows. "I apologize for my existence. But you might go so far as to explain." Mrs. Roughsedge was silent. "How is that child?" said the doctor, abruptly. "Come! I am as fond of her as you are." Mrs.
"Miss Mallory has recommended two books which, in my opinion, should not be circulated among us," said the Vicar. "I have protested in vain. Miss Mallory maintains her recommendation. I propose, therefore, to withdraw from the Club." "Are they improper?" cried Mrs. Roughsedge, much distressed. Captain Roughsedge threw an angry look first at his mother and then at the Vicar.
Colwood; and he carried her off round the corner of the house. Diana gazed after them, and Roughsedge thought he saw her totter. "You look so ill!" he said, stooping over her. "Come and sit down." His boyish nervousness and timidity left him. The strong man emerged and took command. He guided her to a garden seat, under a drooping lime.
She stopped and turned, checked by a sound behind her. Captain Roughsedge appeared, carrying his gun, his spaniel beside him. He greeted the ladies with what seemed to Mrs. Colwood a very evident start of pleasure, and turned to walk with them. "You have been shooting?" said Diana. He admitted it. "That's what you enjoy?" He flushed. "More than anything in the world."
Roughsedge to her husband, "I think it would do you good to walk to Beechcote." "No, my dear, no! I have many proofs to get through before dinner. Take Hugh. Only " Dr. Roughsedge, smiling, held up a beckoning finger. His wife approached. "Don't let him fall in love with that young woman. It's no good." "Well, she must marry somebody, Henry."
He had overheard Sir James Glide's message; he understood her. Presently, Mrs. Roughsedge, seeing that it was a sunny day and the garden looked tempting, asked to be allowed to inspect a new greenhouse that Diana was putting up. The door leading out of the drawing-room to the moat and the formal garden was thrown open; cloaks and hats were brought, and the guests streamed out.
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