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I have never had any cousins before, interrupted the young lady. 'Rosamond, said Scremerston, with a gulp, 'is getting on wonderfully well for a beginner. 'Then let us proceed with her education: it is growing chilly, too, said the Earl; and they all went to billiards, the Jesuit marking with much attention and precision.
'Well, by the candour of early friendship, Scremerston was called the Arcadian, an allusion to a certain tenderness of heart allied with h'm a rather confident and sanguine disposition. I think it may console you to reflect that perhaps he rather overestimates his success with the admirable young lady of whom we spoke. You are not certain that she has accepted him?
The day was hot; they wandered to the smoking-room. Scremerston took up a novel, which he did not read; Logan began a letter to Merton a gloomy epistle. 'I say, Logan, suddenly said Scremerston, 'if your letter is not very important, I wish you would listen to me for a moment. Logan turned round. 'Fire away, he said; 'my letter can wait. Scremerston was in an attitude of deep dejection.
But there is Lord Scremerston calling to us, and a four-in-hand waiting at the door. And I am to sit on the box-seat. Oh, this is better than the dingy old Record Office all day. With these words Miss Willoughby tripped over the sod as lightly as the Fairy Queen, and Logan slowly followed.
She manifestly dazzled Scremerston, who seemed to remember Miss Bangs, her charms, and her dollars no more than Miss Willoughby appeared to remember the treacherous Don. Scremerston was very unlike his father: he was a small, rather fair man, with a slight moustache, a close-clipped beard, and little grey eyes with pink lids.
'If they really were betrothed, said Lord Embleton, 'I would have nothing to say or do in the way of terminating the connection, however unwelcome. A man's word is his word. 'But, asked Logan, 'have things gone so very far? Is the disaster irremediable? I am acquainted with your son, Lord Scremerston; in fact, he was my fag at school. May I speak quite freely? 'Certainly; you will oblige me.
Then Miss Bangs' dollars, not to mention herself, must have too strong a hold on Scremerston. It really looks too hard a case for us on paper. You must go down and reconnoitre. Logan agreed, and wrote asking Lord Embleton to come to the office, where he could see Miss Willoughby and arrange about her visit to him and his manuscripts.
Scremerston took the reins on the homeward way, the Earl being rather fatigued; and, after dinner, two white robes flitted ghost-like on the lawn, and the light which burned red beside one of them was the cigar-tip of Scremerston.
Logan was inclined to reply that he could furnish, at first hand, an exception to the rule, but this appeared tactless. 'No one, I daresay, whose affections were not already engaged, could see her without loving her; but I thought yours had been engaged to a lady now at Homburg? 'So did I, said the wretched Scremerston, 'but I was mistaken. Oh, Logan, you don't know the difference!
Lady Mary, who lives with them, is once more an aunt, and spoils, it is to be feared, the young Viscount Scremerston, a fine but mischievous little boy. On the fate of the ex-Jesuit we do not dwell: enough to say that his punishment was decreed by the laws of our country, not of that which he had disgraced.
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