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He descended to the library and passed under scrutiny. 'You don't look ill, Rowsley, she said, reluctantly in the sound. 'I am the better for seeing you here, Charlotte. Shall I order breakfast for you? I am alone. 'I know you are. I've eaten. Rewkes tells me you've not lost appetite.
'Do you mean to say, Rowsley, you have gone and married the woman since we came up from Steignton? 'She is my wife. 'Anyhow, she won't have our family jewels. 'If you had swallowed them, you'd have to disgorge. 'I don't give up our family jewels to such people. 'Do you decline to call on her? 'I do: I respect our name and blood.
Rowsley threw a daisy at a cockchafer and missed it. "You and I are sons of a parsonage. We shouldn't run off with a married lady because it would be against our principles." His thin brown features were twisted into a faint grimace. Rowsley, like Val, possessed a satirical sense of humour, and gave it freer play than Val did. "It's so difficult to shake off early prejudices.
Don't you see, idiot," this was exclusively to Rowsley, "when I pin my hair up I shall turn into a grown up lady? And then I shall have to wear proper clothes. At present I'm only a little girl and it doesn't signify what I wear. If any one will give me five pounds I'll pin my hair up like a shot. Oh dear, I wonder what Yvonne would say if Jack expected her to outfit herself for five pounds?
Her deepened voice murmured: 'Is this to deliberate? Colour flooded the beautiful dark face, as of the funeral hues of a sun suffusing all the heavens; firing earth. On Friday, on Saturday, on Sunday, Lady Charlotte waited for her brother Rowsley, until it was a diminished satisfaction that she had held her ground and baffled his mighty will to subdue her.
She refused to visit the so-called Countess of Ormont, or leave her card, or take one step to warrant the woman in speaking of her as her sister-in-law. And no, it did not signify that her brother Rowsley was prohibited by her from marrying whom he pleased.
Her ingenuitics of the defence eluded his attacks, and compelled him to fall on heavy iteration of his demand for the jewels, an immediate restitution of the jewels. 'Why immediate? cried she. He repeated it without replying to her. 'But, you tell me, Rowsley, why immediate? If you're in want of money for her, you come to me, tell me, you shall have thousands.
The raiders rose up each holding a handful of large red strawberries melting ripe, and Isabel, pitching in her racquet on a sofa, ran across the grass and enfolded her brother in her arms. Rowsley, dark and slight and shrewd, returned her hug with one arm, while carefully guarding his strawberries with the other "You pig, you perfect pig!" wailed Isabel.
"Yvonne would say anything. I wish you had given her a hint to hold her tongue. She may do most pestilent mischief if she sets this gossip going." "It'll set itself going," said Rowsley. "And, though I know the Bendishes pretty well, I really shouldn't care to tell Mrs. Jack not to gossip about her own sister. You might see your way to it, reverend sir, but I don't."
Nothing written by her touched him to pierce him so shrewdly; nothing could have brought him so closely the breathing image in the flesh of the woman now a phantom for him. 'Will she be expecting you to answer, Rowsley? 'Will that forked tongue cease hissing! he shouted, in the agony of a strong man convulsed both to render and conceal the terrible, shameful, unexampled gush of tears.
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