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Quayle's letter could hardly be otherwise than disquieting, for it was undeniable that Lord Shotover's debts were causing both himself and others serious embarrassment at this period. There was nothing new in this, that young nobleman's indebtedness being a permanent factor in his family's financial situation.
But Lady Louisa remained obdurate. "Shotover's conduct is becoming a positive scandal," she said. "Not conduct, my dear no, not conduct, only money," protested Lord Fallowfeild. "If money is not conduct I really don't know what is," retorted his daughter. "I do not pretend to go in for such fine distinctions. In any case Mr. Barking heard the most shocking rumours at his club the other day."
And Lord Shotover's shadow, which had usually, very surely, nothing in the least portentous about it, lay queerly, three ways at once, in varying degrees of density, across the gray pavement in the conflicting gas and moonlight.
And so doing, she gave a plaintive exclamation of alarm, perhaps even of physical pain. Hearing which, that nameless agitation, that sense of collision with unknown and incalculable forces, seized hold on Honoria again, while Lord Shotover's features contracted and he turned his head sharply. "By George!" he repeated under his breath.
His object was not the exposure of Marway, but the protection of his master's daughter: he would, therefore, wait Mr. Shotover's return. He said to himself also, that Marway would thereby have a chance to bethink himself, and, like Hamlet's uncle, "try what repentance can." As soon as he had put the bank in order for the night, he went to find his little companion, and take her to Noah's ark.
You must not permit this martyrdom to be completed you can't!" As she spoke Decies watched her keenly. Who this stately, young lady so remarkably unlike the majority of Lord Shotover's intimate, feminine acquaintance might be, he did not know. But he discerned in her an ally and a powerful one. "Yes," he said impulsively, "you are right. It is a martyrdom and a scandalous one.
This spring his indebtedness had passed from the chronic to the acute stage, that was all. With the consequence that it became evident Lord Shotover's debts must be paid, or his relations must submit to the annoyance of seeing him pass through the Bankruptcy Court.
Honoria entertained a conviction that, in the overflowing of his good nature, he talked sooner or later to every soul whom he met. And she derived almost childish comfort from the knowledge of the near neighbourhood of that eminently good-natured presence. Lord Shotover's very obvious faults faded from her remembrance.
Lord Shotover's parley with Richard Calmady's man-servant, on the door-step, had brought that home to her, placing what had seemed obvious, as a course of action to her fervid imagination, in quite a new light. Sir Richard Calmady was at home? He was still up? To that, yes. Would he see Lady Constance Quayle upon urgent business?
It came out of the business about your settlements, wasn't it or the last time I paid Shotover's " He cleared his throat hurriedly. "I see the Calmadys' house is being done up," he continued. "Nice young fellow, Calmady. But I never can help feeling a certain awkwardness with him. Takes you up rather short in conversation too sometimes.
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