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But he played fair; didn't try to win her. Told me all about it, right at the first, and we came to an agreement. We were both to steer clear of her over on that side. That's why we stuck close to Ruthby Castle till Jenny sailed for home. No; Jimmy is white. He had invitations to more than one house-party where she was visiting around with Lady Chetwynd and Madam Gantry."
"Ever think of him as wearing a dress suit, Mr. Griffith?" Griffith looked blank. "Tommy? in a dress suit!" "There's one in his box. When we landed in England I took him down to Ruthby. Kept him there a month. You'd have been jolly well pleased to see the way he and the guv'nor hit it off." "Governor?" "Yes, my pater father, y' know." "So he's a governor?
Then Tommy was stringing me about the earl and duke business." "Oh, no, no, indeed, no. The pater is the Duke of Ruthby, seventh in the line, and twenty-first Earl of Avondale; but he's a crack-up jolly old chap, I assure you. Not all our titled people are of the kind you see most of over here in the States." "But hold on if your father is a real duke, then you're not Mr.
"The Countess of Avondale, future Duchess of Ruthby! Think I don't see through mamma's little game? And you'd shillyshally around, and throw over the true, noble hero to whom you owe everything whom you've pretended you loved to run after a title, an Englishman, when you could have that big-hearted American!" Genevieve's lips straightened. "What a patriot!" she rejoined with quiet irony.
Genevieve placed a trembling hand on the cover of her samovar, and called to him gayly: "Hurry here at once and have a good hot cup of tea. You must be frozen." Blake came to them across the waxed floor with an ease and assurance of step in part due to his visit to Ruthby Castle and in part to his walk over the sleet-coated pavements.
As Lord James had once observed, with regard to his visit at Ruthby Castle, Blake's bigness of mind seemed to be instinctively sensed by nearly all those with whom he came in contact on favorable terms. But, from the first, he avoided Genevieve with a persistence so marked as almost to disarm Mrs. Gantry.
"Rather have a tooth pulled, though." "I say, now, you got along swimmingly at Ruthby." "With your father. He wasn't a Chicago society dame." "Oh, well, you must make allowances for the madam. Miss Dolores explained to me that 'Vievie has only to meet people in order to be received, but mamma has to keep butting in to arrive that's why she cultivates her grand air."
I can ease the tedium of Miss Leslie's trip up the coast; and I stand ready to do so on two conditions. In the first place; you're to come aboard and stay aboard. After I find a chaperon for her at Aden, you're to go on home with me, to visit at Ruthby." "Excuse me!" said Blake. "I can see myself parading around your ancestral stone-heap with your ducal dad!"
But I knew you before he did, and I've played fair with him. It was not easy to say nothing those days before we reached Aden, or to stay away from you after I reached home. Even he could not have found it so hard. He has all that stubborn power of endurance; while I " "You have no cause to reproach yourself. I cannot say how greatly it pleased me that you took him to Ruthby Castle."
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