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Have I ever prompted you to do anything dishonourable? Fair fighting allies was all I thought of. Miss De Stancy breathed more freely. 'Yes, we will be that, of course; we are always that, William. But I hope I can be your ally, and be quite neutral; I would so much rather. 'Well, I suppose it will not be a breach of your precious neutrality if you get me invited to see the castle?
'But I reserve to myself the right to accept or refuse your addresses just as if those rash words of mine had never been spoken. 'I must bear it all as best I can, I suppose, said De Stancy, with melancholy humorousness. 'And I shall treat you as your behaviour shall seem to deserve, she said playfully. 'Then I may stay?
De Stancy was the chief mourner and only relation present, the other followers of the broken-down old man being an ancient lawyer, a couple of faithful servants, and a bowed villager who had been page to the late Sir William's father the single living person left in the parish who remembered the De Stancys as people of wealth and influence, and who firmly believed that family would come into its rights ere long, and oust the uncircumcized Philistines who had taken possession of the old lands.
Paula contended that he ought not to measure everybody by himself. 'I have no other standard, said De Stancy; 'and if my own is wrong, it is you who have made it so. Have you thought any more of what I said at Cologne? 'I don't quite remember what you did say at Cologne? 'My dearest life! Paula's eyes rounding somewhat, he corrected the exclamation.
At last Paula spoke, so stilly that she seemed a statue enunciating: 'Are the verses known that he wrote with his blood? 'O yes, they have been carefully preserved. Captain De Stancy, with true wooer's instinct, had committed some of them to memory that morning from the printed copy to be found in every well-ordered library.
Henceforward the wooing of De Stancy took the form of an intermittent address, the incidents of their travel furnishing pegs whereon to hang his subject; sometimes hindering it, but seldom failing to produce in her a greater tolerance of his presence. His next opportunity was the day after Somerset's departure from Heidelberg.
The guests are to include people of old cavalier families who would have treated her grandfather, sir, and even her father, with scorn for their religion and connections; also the parson and curate yes, actually people who believe in the Apostolic Succession; and what's more, they're coming. My opinion is, that it has all arisen from her friendship with Miss De Stancy.
The week passed: he telegraphed: there was no reply: he had sudden fears for her personal safety and resolved to break her command by writing. 'STANCY CASTLE, April 13. 'DEAR PAULA, Are you ill or in trouble? It is impossible in the very unquiet state you have put me into by your silence that I should abstain from writing.
And then Paula saw emerge into the red beams of the dancing fire, from behind a half-drawn hanging which screened the door, the military gentleman whose acquaintance the reader has already made. 'You know the house, doubtless, Captain De Stancy? said Paula, somewhat shyly, when he had been presented to her.
'No, don't let me see her, De Stancy expostulated. 'If she is only half so good-looking as you say, she will drag me at her heels like a blind Samson. You are a mere youth as yet, but I may tell you that the misfortune of never having been my own master where a beautiful face was concerned obliges me to be cautious if I would preserve my peace of mind.
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