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It will be a grand affair. We must have new dresses, Graeme." She took up the note and read: "Mrs Roxbury's compliments to Miss Elliott." "Miss Elliott!" she repeated. "Why, Graeme! I am not invited." "So it seems; but never mind, Rosie. I am not going to accept it." Rose was indeed crestfallen. "Oh, you must go, of course. You must not stay at home on my account." "No; certainly.
"What can make Harry so desirous that you should go to Mrs Roxbury's?" said Arthur, at last. "Have you any particular reason for not wishing to go?" "Do you think Harry really cared? No; I have no reason for not wishing to go there. But, Arthur, we have been going out too much lately.
I have arranged to bribe one of the gaolers his guard. He will let him escape for ten thousand crowns we must do it, Edith! Then Mr. Brock will ride over the Brenner Pass and catch a train somewhere, before his escape is discovered. I expect to meet him in Paris day after to-morrow. Have you heard from Roxbury?" "No!" wailed Roxbury's wife. "He's a brute!" stormed Miss Fowler.
She was startled, so startled that she quite forgot to return Miss Roxbury's bow and smile, and had gone a good way down the street before she noticed that her brother was speaking to her. He was saying something about the possible admission of young Roxbury into the new firm, apropos of the encounter of Mr Millar and Amy.
She wanted to speak with Harry about the sharp words that had more than once passed between him and Rose of late; but Mr Millar walked with them, and she could not do so, and it was with an anxious and preoccupied mind that she entered Mr Roxbury's house. The drawing-room was very handsome, of course, with very little to distinguish it from the many fine rooms of her friends.
I almost think I knew what was coming before he knew it himself, at the very first." "The very first?" repeated Graeme. "When was that? In the spring? Before the time we went to Mrs Roxbury's, on the evening of the Convocation?" "Oh! yes! long before that before Miss Rose came home from the West.
"Well, I can't but say you have chosen an unfortunate occasion to begin to be fastidious. I should think the Roxbury's would be the very house you would like to go to." "Oh! one has to make a beginning. And I am tired of so much gaiety. It makes no difference about its being Mrs Roxbury." "Very well. Please yourself and you'll please me," said Harry, rising.
She just noticed that it was addressed to Graeme, in time to prevent her from opening it. "What is it, Graeme?" asked she, eagerly, as she entered the room where her sister was writing. "I am almost sure it was left by Mrs Roxbury's servant. See, there is their crest. What is it? An invitation?" "Yes," said Graeme, quietly, laying down the note. "For the twenty-seventh." "Such a long time!
And then the mention of Amy Roxbury's name, and the talk that followed, startled her into the knowledge that she had been dreaming. "Rose," said she, after they had been up-stairs for some time, and were about to separate for the night, "what was the matter with Harry this evening?" "What, indeed?" said Rose, laughing. "He was quite out of sorts about something."
After the first clasp of their hands he knew that the vows hitherto unspoken, must now be fulfilled. Graeme did go to Mrs Roxbury's party, and it happened in this way. The invitations had been sent out before Mr Elphinstone's short, sharp illness, and Lilias had been made very useful by her aunt on the occasion.
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