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Southend was well satisfied with the way in which his overture was received. Lady Evenswood was watching intently. "The idea is " said Harry slowly "I mean I don't quite gather what it is. You talk of my cousin, and then of a viscounty. The two go together, do they?" It was rather an awkward question put as bluntly as that. "Well, that did seem to be Mr Disney's view," said Southend.
I think I should like you to bring him to see me." For forty years such an intimation from Lady Evenswood had enjoyed the rank of a command; Lord Southend received it with proper obedience. "The solution I spoke of has occurred to some of us," he went on. "He's poor now, but with that he could make a marriage. The case is very exceptional " "So is what you propose, George."
"I agree, and that's just why, though I admire Disney enormously, I " "Generally vote against him on critical occasions? Yes, Robert makes so many admirers like that." "Is his work at Blinkhampton nothing?" demanded Mina. "He got in for that while he was dispossessed," smiled Southend. "I say, thank heaven he wouldn't have the viscounty!" "That would have been deplorable," agreed Lady Evenswood.
"And how long the days will be!" "Come, come! You mustn't look on the dark side!" "Is there another?" Jill laughed. "You are an old hum-bug, Uncle Chris. You know perfectly well what you're condemning me to! I expect Brookport will be like a sort of Southend in winter. Oh, well, I'll be brave. But do hurry and make a fortune, because I want to come to New York."
Exactly how soon that contingency was going to occur we neither of us guessed or imagined! We reached the Nore Lightship, and waving a courteous greeting to a patient-looking gentleman who was spitting over the side, commenced our long beat back in the direction of Southend.
She heard him say, half under his breath, "Damned persistent little woman!" before he vanished through the door. She turned to her companions, her face aghast, her lips quivering, her eyes dim. The magician had come and gone and worked no spell; her disappointment was very bitter. To her amazement Southend was radiant and Lady Evenswood wore an air of gratified contentment. She stared at them.
Blinkhampton was turning up trumps for all concerned, for Iver, for Harry, for Southend, and for him; the scheme even promised to be remunerative to the investing public. So he had told Mina that he must be on the spot, and that henceforward the country and the Continent would know him only in occasional days of recreation.
If Jill's vision of Brookport as a wintery Southend was not entirely fulfilled, neither was Uncle Chris' picture of it as an earthly paradise. At the right time of the year, like most of the summer resorts on the south shore of Long Island, it is not without its attractions; but January is not the month which most people would choose for living in it.
Latimer replied at once in a cheerful, good-natured bawl, amazingly different from his ordinary tone: "Private launch, Vanity, Southend; and who the hell are you?" Whether the vigour of the reply upset our questioner or not, I can't say. Anyhow he returned no answer, and leaving him to think what he pleased, we continued our way out into the main stream.
"It went off better than I expected," said he. "It must be one of Robert's good days," said she. "But but " gasped the Imp. "He was very civil for him. He must mean to think about it, about something of the sort anyhow," Southend explained. "I shouldn't wonder if it had been in his mind," he added to Lady Evenswood. "Neither should I. At any rate he took it splendidly.
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