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So she came downstairs next morning, pale, restless, unrefreshed in body or mind; and her peace of mind was not improved by seeing, seated at the breakfast-table, Frank Headley, whom Lucia and Scoutbush were stuffing with all manner of good things. She blushed scarlet do what she would she could not help it when he rose and bowed to her. Half choked, she came forward and offered her hand.
"No," said Valencia very quietly; "I only want to marry him." "Marry him?" cried Scoutbush, starting up. "Don't try to look majestic, my dear little brother, for you are really not tall enough; as it is, you have only hooked all your flies into your dressing-gown." Scoutbush dashed himself down into his chair again. "I'll be shot if you shall!"
Let me go home and pray for you!" There was an awkward silence among the men, till some fellow said, "She'm gone mad after that doctor, I think, with his muck-hunting notions." And Grace went home, to await the hour of afternoon school. "What a face!" said Mellot. "Is it not? Come and see her in her school, when the children go in at two o'clock. Ah! there are Scoutbush and St. Père."
Now she threw upon him one of her sudden, startled looks, and answered slowly, as her eyes dropped again: "I have, my lord; but they will not listen to me." "Won't listen to you? Then to whom will they listen?" "To God, when He speaks Himself," said she, still looking on the ground. Scoutbush winced uneasily. He was not accustomed to solemn words, spoken so solemnly. "Do you hear this, Campbell?
"I'll go home with Campbell, and send the bottle up by a man and horse," cries Scoutbush; and away the two trot at a gallant pace, for a cross-country run home. "Mr. Tardrew, come with me, there's a good man! I shall want help." Tardrew made no reply, but dashed through the river at his heels. Trebooze had already climbed the plashed fence, and was running wildly across the meadow.
"What do you think of that poet, Mellot?" said he once, on returning from a pic-nic, during which Elsley had never noticed his wife; and, at last, finding Valencia engaged with Headley, had actually gone off, pour pis aller, to watch Lord Scoutbush fishing. "Oh, clever enough, and to spare; and as well read a man as I know.
I must be plain Scoutbush here among my own people, just as I am in the Guards' mess-room.
However, Trebooze departed in high spirits; for Lord Scoutbush has deigned to say that he will be delighted to see the otter-hounds work any morning that Trebooze likes, and anyhow no time too early for him. "He will bring his friend Major Campbell?" "By all means." "Expect two or three sporting gentlemen from the neighbourhood, too.
I am a man of very few wants." "I wish I were," sighed Scoutbush, pulling out another of Hudson's highest-priced cigars. And so Elsley, instead of simply asking to have the house-drains set right, which Lord Scoutbush would have done upon the spot, chose to be lofty-minded, at the risk of killing his wife and children. "My dear follow, you really must not 'lord' me any more; I hate it.
I never gave him the opportunity, and he has been most civil." "Well, in future, just order him to do what you like, and just as if you were landlord, in fact; and if the old man haggles, write to me, and I'll blow him up. Delighted to have a man of taste like you here, who can improve the place for me." "I assure you, Lord Scoutbush, I need nothing, nor does the place.
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