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Updated: May 14, 2025
"It is delicious to get away from London, delicious to tread on cool grass instead of hot paving-stones." "And you are going to stay in Rushbrook a long time. Mrs. Lennard has been telling me all her plans. The rector is coming here on his return from Switzerland, and then you will all pay the long-promised visit to the Court." "We shall see," Elsie returned, with a little air of gravity.
The man's arm was round the woman's waist; the woman was as he had suspected the one who had stood in the doorway, the Signora but the man was NOT Rushbrook. Mr. Leyton drew back this time in unaffected horror. It was none other than Jack Somers!
"That is to suppose that he did not go out with the gun to poach, but upon some other expedition." "What else could the boy have gone out for?" said Rushbrook, hastily. "Very true; it is not very likely that he went out to commit murder," replied the pedagogue. At the word "murder" Rushbrook started from his chair; but, recollecting himself, he sat down again.
Grace took it, and read: DEAR MISS NEVIL, Pray assure your uncle from me that I am quite ready to guarantee, in any form that he may require, the undertaking represented to him by Mr. John Somers. Yours very truly, A quick flush mounted to the young girl's cheeks. "But this is a SECURITY, Mr. Rushbrook," she said proudly, handing him back the paper, "and my uncle does not require that.
"I am vainer than I thought myself," she mused. "All women are vain, of course. It is not a very bad fault, but it makes one little in one's own sight." Then came other ideas, crowding fast into her brain. "What does Olivia know? She is not a clever woman. How can she tell what a man means to do? Away down there in Rushbrook he will be put to the test.
Rushbrook remained so silent that James, fancying he had not heard him, was about to repeat himself when his master said quickly, "Very well, come for me there when dinner is ready," and entered the passage leading to the room. James did not follow him, and when Mr. Rushbrook, opening the door, started back with an exclamation, no one but the inmate heard the word that rose to his lips.
"I don't understand it," replied Rushbrook; "they might have asked you questions, but how could they have guessed that I had told you anything?" "My dear friend, you don't understand it; but in my situation, looking up to me, as every one does, as an example of moral rectitude and correctness of conduct as a pattern to the juvenile branches of the community, you see "
"Excuse me," he said, with respectful business brevity, "but I thought every one was out," and he stepped backward quickly. "I've only just come," she said without embarrassment, "and would you mind, as you ARE here, giving me a lift with this table?" "Certainly," replied Rushbrook, and under the young girl's direction the millionaire moved the table to one side.
All his former love of poaching came strong upon him, and his wife, so far from checking him, encouraged him in his feelings. The consequence was, that two years after his marriage, Joe Rushbrook was the most determined poacher in the county.
Before the man could reply, Rushbrook was already giving a hurried interview to the gardener and others on his way to the front porch. In another moment he had entered his own hall, a wonderful temple of white and silver plaster, formal, yet friable like the sugared erection of a wedding cake, where his major-domo awaited him.
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