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The evening passed off at first as uncomfortably as it could, where three out of the four were well-bred people. Elsley was, of course, shy before Lord Scoutbush, and Scoutbush was equally shy before Elsley, though as civil as possible to him; for the little fellow stood in extreme awe of Elsley's talents, and was afraid of opening his lips before a poet.
Valencia was awed, as well she might have been; for there was a very deep sadness about Campbell's voice. "You think there will be def disasters?" said she, at last. "How can I tell? That we are what we always were, I doubt not. Scoutbush will fight as merrily as I. But we owe the penalty of many sins, and we shall pay it."
When the lesson comes, if it does come, I suppose it will come in some learnable shape; and till then, I must shift for myself and if self-dependence he a punishable sin, I shall, at all events, have plenty of company whithersoever I go. There is Lord Scoutbush and Trebooze!" Why did not Campbell speak his mind more clearly to Thurnall?
"I will go, and see about finding him!" she said at last as her only resource. "Promise me to be quiet here, and I will." "Quiet? Yes! quiet here!" and she threw herself upon her face on the floor. She looked up eagerly. "You will not tell Scoutbush?" "Why not?" "He is so so hasty. He will kill him! Valencia, he will kill him! Promise me not to tell him, or I shall go mad!"
I believe she told him that she would sooner see him in the Morgue than help him; and he is gone to the moors now, I believe." "There is time then: I will write to her to-night;" and Campbell took up his hat and went home to do it. "Ah," said Scoutbush, taking his cigar meditatively from his mouth, "I wonder how he does it! It's a gift, I always say, a wonderful gift!
And as for owing me any, really, it is we that are in your debt to see my sister so happy, and such beautiful children, and so well too and altogether and Valencia so delighted with your poems and, and altogether " and there Lord Scoutbush stopped, having hoisted, as he considered, the flag of peace once and for all, and very glad that the thing was over.
"Hardly fair, Major Campbell!" quoth Tom; "you forget that in the old times, if the Lord of Aberalva was responsible for his people, he had also by law the power of making them obey him." "The long and the short of it is, then," said Scoutbush a little tartly, "that I can do nothing." "You can put to rights the cottages which are still in your hands, my lord.
Scoutbush, your life has been child's play as yet. You are going now to see life in earnest, the sort of life which average people have been living, in every age and country, since Adam's fall; a life of sorrow and danger, tears and blood, mistake, confusion, and perplexity; and you will find it a very new sensation; and, at first, a very ugly one.
He wanted to keep the exquisite creature to himself, and Headley was quite enough of an intruder already. Beside, the accounts of the new comer, his learning, his military prowess, the reverence with which all, even Scoutbush, evidently regarded him, made him prepared to dislike the Major; and all the more, now he heard that there was an ice-crust to crack.
So to the otter-hunt is Scoutbush gone, and Campbell and Thurnall after him; for Trebooze has said to himself, "Must ask that blackguard of a doctor hang him! I wish he were an otter himself; but if he's so thick with his lordship it won't do to quarrel." For, indeed, Thurnall might tell tales.
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