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Updated: May 15, 2025
A thick, silky beard hid a jaw which was a little heavy. After mutual compliments he said good-bye to the ladies; and two days afterwards made his first call at the château. He arrived just as they were looking at a rustic-seat, placed only that morning under the big plane-tree opposite the drawing-room windows.
As Stephen has not put in an appearance at the Court now for fully two days, speculation is rife as to what has become of him. "It is the oddest thing I ever knew," Julia is saying, as the cousins come up to the rustic-seat. "What is it?" asks Roger, idly. "Stephen's defection. He used to be as true as the morning post, and now I hope he hasn't made away with himself," says Dicky Browne.
She is in no humor now for questions or curious looks; gaining the house without encountering any one, she runs up-stairs, and seeks refuge in her own room. But if she doesn't return to gratify the curiosity of the puzzled group on the rustic-seat, somebody else does. Jacky, panting, dishevelled, out of breath with quick running rushes up to them, and precipitates himself upon his mother.
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