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'Yes, do stay, Mr. Everard! added Miss Rowly placidly. 'It would make a pleasant hour for us all. Leonard, with a great effort, said with conventional politeness: 'Thanks, awfully! But I promised my father to be home for lunch! and he withdrew to the door which the servant held open.
"Oh, I will give it up, if you really say so; but this is a queer state of things when my sword, presented to me by my fellow-citizens, is to be taken from me without any warrant of law," said Captain Rowly, as he handed the sword to Christy, who returned it when it had done its duty as a token of submission. The prisoner was marched to the forecastle of the Havana, and put under guard.
Leonard was getting tired of waiting when he received his summons to Normanstand. But despite his impatience he was ill pleased with the summons, which came in the shape of a polite note from Miss Rowly asking him to come that afternoon at tea-time. He had expected to hear from Stephen. 'Damn that old woman!
Taking a pen he turned to Miss Rowly and said: 'What shall I write? She answered calmly: 'Date it, and then say, "Received from Miss Laetitia Rowly the receipts for the following amounts from the various firms hereunder enumerated." She then proceeded to read them, he writing and repeating as he wrote.
It has been Miss Rowly who paid your debts. At first I had promised myself the pleasure; but from something in your speech and manner she thought it better that such an act should not be done by a woman in my position to a man in yours. It might, if made public, have created quite a wrong impression in the minds of many of our friends. There was something like a snort from Leonard.
But I take it that there is nothing which she may not share. I have no secrets from her. He rubbed his hands genially as he replied: 'Not at all; not at all! I should like her to be present. It will, I am sure, be a delight to us all. Again raised eyebrows; again silence on the subject. When a servant answered her bell she told him to ask Miss Rowly if she would kindly join them.
In all the past years, with the constant opportunity which friendship gave of close companionship, the feeling never altered. Squire Norman would have been surprised had he been asked to describe Margaret Rowly and found himself compelled to present the picture of a woman, not a child.
To many of these, given by N. M. Rothschild at Piccadilly, Mr and Mrs Montefiore were invited. At one of them they met the Duke and Duchess of St Albans, Lady Louisa Beauclerk, the Hon. Shaw Stewart, Lord and Lady Kinnwell, Sir William and Lady Rowly, the Spanish Ambassador and his wife, the Brazilian Ambassador, Sir Charles Beresford, Sir William Abdy, Mr George Harrison, Mr Kelly Addenston.
"And, like an infernal thieving Yankee, you went into the fort and stole the guns!" exclaimed Captain Rowly, beginning to boil with rage as he thought of his misfortune. "Well, it did not occur to me that I ought to have waked you and told you what I was about before taking the guns." "It was a nasty Yankee trick!" roared the soldier.
Courts of Justice were places for men; and the lower courts dealt with a class of cases . . . It was quite impossible to imagine where any young lady could get such an idea . . . Miss Laetitia Rowly recognised that she had a difficult task before her, for she was by now accustomed to Stephen's quiet method of having her own way. She made a careful toilet before driving over to Normanstand.
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