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They lived in one of those box-like mansions, so many of which were built in Ireland under the Georges. On either side trees had been planted, and they stretched to the right and left like the wings of a theatre. In front there was a green lawn; at the back a sloppy stableyard. The latter was May's especial delight, and when Mr. Scully was with them, it seemed impossible to induce her to leave it.
There was nothing ominous about their yapping. Patsy came to meet her as she entered the stableyard. The small neat figure had a disconsolate air. Patsy's eyes were red, his hair rumpled. "How is he?" he asked. "There is no change. The doctor is not alarmed." "Ah, well, that's good so far. Master Terry'll be comin'; that's better. I'll be meetin' him at the late train?"
His mind had been quickly made up, nay! his actions in the immediate future should of a truth have been accomplished two days ago, ere the meddlesomeness of women had well-nigh jeopardized his own safety. All that he meant to do now was to go quickly to the pavilion, find the leather wallet then return to his own stableyard, saddle one of his nags and start forthwith for Dover.
Perhaps Walter had over-persuaded her. She would know very soon now, for Muriel told her everything. Mrs. Graham she was the Honourable Mrs. Graham, a daughter of the breeder of Jove II. and other famous shorthorns came out of the door leading to the stableyard as Cicely drove up.
Neefit," said Ralph, speaking in a low voice, but still clearly, so that all around him could hear him, "your daughter and I can never be more to each other than we are at present. She has decided that. But I value her character and good name too highly to allow even you to injure them by such a discussion in a stableyard." And, having said this, he walked away into the house.
"Is that you, Jem?" cried a hearty voice from the stableyard. "Come in and warm yourself." "I only stopped here," Mr. Chandler explained, "to let down an old gent that wants food and lodging. Mind, I warn you agin him; he's worse nor a temperance lecturer." Mr. Finsbury dismounted with difficulty, for he was cramped with his long drive, and the shaking he had received in the accident.
But I know what I will do." So, at five the next morning up he got, and into his bath, and into his shooting-jacket and gaiters, and into the stableyard, like a fine old English gentleman, with a face as red as a rose, and a hand as hard as a table, and a back as broad as a bullock's; and bade them bring his shooting pony, and the keeper to come on his pony, and the huntsman, and the first whip, and the second whip, and the under-keeper with the bloodhound in a leash a great dog as tall as a calf, of the colour of a gravel-walk, with mahogany ears and nose, and a throat like a church-bell.
Captain Carey, while leaving it to be understood that he held himself engaged to Mary Pennycuick until further orders, realised the welcome fact that in the meantime he was honourably free; and he excused himself from staying to dinner. But scarcely had he driven off in his hired buggy than that of Mr Goldsworthy clattered into the stableyard.
A game-cock in the stableyard, deprived of every spark of his accustomed animation, balanced himself dismally on one leg in a corner; a donkey, moping with drooping head under the narrow roof of an outhouse, appeared from his meditative and miserable countenance to be contemplating suicide.
Two of the vague attendants who are always to be found in their numbers about the doorway and stableyard of a Spanish country-house took the horses, and Fitz wandered round the patio to the southern door which led to the terrace. There was not very much change in Henry FitzHenry since we saw him in Mrs. Harrington's drawing-room six years earlier.
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