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If, as I understand, the plans are identical, except in ornamental details, there will be no difficulty about it at all. Paula sighed just a little one; and yet the suggestion seemed to satisfy her by its reasonableness. She turned sad, wayward, but was impressed by De Stancy's manner and words. She appeared indeed to have a smouldering desire to please him.
'I am too big a fool about you to keep you down as I ought; that's the fault of me, worse luck. He pressed the youth's hand with a smile, went forward, and looked through the hole into the interior of the gymnasium. Dare withdrew to some little distance, and watched Captain De Stancy's face, which presently began to assume an expression of interest. What was the captain seeing?
'And who is that gentleman whose line of business seems to be to make love to Power? 'He's Captain De Stancy, Sir William De Stancy's son, who used to own this property. 'Baronet or knight? 'Baronet a very old-established family about here.
Somerset, I am glad to welcome you here, both as a friend of Miss De Stancy's family, and as the son of your father which is indeed quite a sufficient introduction anywhere. 'You have two pictures painted by Mr. Somerset's father, have you not? I have already told him about them, said Miss De Stancy. 'Perhaps Mr. Somerset would like to see them if they are unpacked?
She had not seen quite clearly, in adopting De Stancy's suggestion, that Somerset would now have no professional reason for being at the castle for the next twelve months. But the captain had, and when Havill entered the castle he rejoiced with great joy. Dare, too, rejoiced in his cold way, and went on with his photography, saying, 'The game progresses, captain. 'Game?
Assuming De Stancy to be a husband, he felt there might be some excuse for his remark; if unmarried, Somerset liked the satire still better; in such circumstances there was a relief in the thought that Captain De Stancy's prejudices might be infinitely stronger than those of his sister or father. 'Going to-morrow, did you say, Mr. Somerset? asked Miss De Stancy.
De Stancy's mode of presenting the necklace, though unauthorized by Shakespeare, had the full approval of the company, and set them in good humour to receive Major Camperton as Armado the braggart. Nothing calculated to stimulate jealousy occurred again till the fifth act; and then there arose full cause for it. The scene was the outside of the Princess's pavilion.
'No, don't show us any further, William! said his sister. 'It is too tragic. De Stancy put away the sword, himself rather excited not, however, by his own recital, but by the direct gaze of Paula at him. This Protean quality of De Stancy's, by means of which he could assume the shape and situation of almost any ancestor at will, had impressed her, and he perceived it with a throb of fervour.
'It disturbed me, he said, 'though I did not believe it. 'It astonished me, as much as it disturbed you; and I sent this contradiction at once. 'How could it have got there? She shook her head. 'You have not the least knowledge? 'Not the least. I wish I had. 'It was not from any friends of De Stancy's? or himself? 'It was not.
Before Somerset had recovered from his crestfallen sensation at De Stancy's elusiveness, that officer himself emerged in evening dress from behind a curtain forming a wing to the proscenium, and Somerset remarked that the minor part originally allotted to him was filled by the subaltern who had enacted it the night before.
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