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We have no champions in the forum of the world's thought. We are being arraigned at the judgment bar of mankind and we are dumb. It's appalling." "That's why you must speak for us. Speak in our defense. Speak with a tongue of flame " "I am not trained for speech, Ruffin. And the pen is mightier than the sword. I've never realized it before.
Bring us some tea," said the Honourable John Ruffin lightly; and he went down the passage. He came into the sitting-room briskly, and found the duke sitting in an easy chair, with his silk hat thrust well back on his head, in a fashion which gave him a far from ducal, an even raffish air. "How are you, Ruffin?" he said, with an amiable smile, but in a somewhat nervous and deprecatory tone.
Regarding her thus attired, Millicent's great admiration became an even greater awe. "Why, you look the perfect lydy," she said in a hushed voice. "If I'm a red Deeping, I'm of the oldest blood in England, and I must be a lady. Mr. Ruffin says so," said Pollyooly in the tone of one quite sure of herself.
More than once the duke protested that he was not taking the children to live at the court for the rest of the century; and when the Honourable John Ruffin thoughtfully tried to edge in a few winter vests, he protested hotly that he was not fitting out an expedition to discover the North Pole, or the South. His warm opposition only excited the combative instinct of the Honourable John Ruffin.
The duke seemed taken aback by the suddenness of the news, but soon he recovered and showed himself in very good spirits. That night after dinner, after Pollyooly and Ronald had been dismissed from dessert to bed, the Honourable John Ruffin said: "I got a letter from Caroline, pitching into me like one o'clock for being a party to a disgraceful plot to rob Marion of her name and birthright."
Naturally therefore she wore an air of perfect ease; and answered the innumerable questions about her fondness for different things, the country, dolls, flowers and so forth with serene simplicity. He had a feeling that it was exactly the right air for a daughter of a duke. He wondered how it had come to her, whether the Honourable John Ruffin was right in his red Deeping theory.
Monsieur Ruffin, with his eyes fixed on Veronique, was stupefied. At this instant the carriage came rapidly up the avenue. "There are five of them!" cried the rector, who could see and count the travellers. "Five!" exclaimed Gerard. "Can five know more than two?" "Ah," cried Madame Graslin suddenly, grasping the rector's arm, "the procureur-general is among them! What is he doing here?"
"How are you, Osterley? Got over the sulks?" said the Honourable John Ruffin lightly. "Sulks? I never sulk!" said the duke with some heat. "What do you call them then?" said the Honourable John Ruffin with a good display of the liveliest most unaffected interest. "I don't know what you're talking about!" said the duke coldly; but he flushed.
Captain James' claim appears to be more valid than that of General Ruffin from the fact that it is positively known that James' company was on duty at Fort Johnston, on James' Island, while the Palmetto Guards, of which General Ruffin was a member, was at the railroad battery on Morris Island.
"B-b-b-but I've been c-c-c-calling her Lady Marion all the t-t-t-time, and she never p-p-p-protested once!" cried Mr. Wilkinson, gazing wildly at Pollyooly. "Then all I can say is, you must have frightened the life out of her," said the Honourable John Ruffin indignantly.
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