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Terry has shooed him off on that automobile tour I heard about; but he must come back and so must Strathay. I can't wait long, I'm not safe an hour from human vultures hungry for money, though I've none to yield them. I must do something. No sooner had Mrs.
I'd have said to Ned: "Whither thou goest I will go;" but if what he feels for me is not love if in his heart he hates me for the witchery I've put upon him I could go abroad with a title, if I chose. If love lies not my way, there is Strathay.
"Oh, by the way," she said, checking her flood of gossip. "Who d'you suppose is to be at the Charity Ball? Lord Strathay. You'll talk with a real Earl, Nelly for of course he'll ask to be introduced." "Another dance!" groaned my aunt, who had trotted panting in the General's wake; "I'm sure I wish I'd never said she might go; I'm as nervous as a witch after last evening."
That Strathay wishes to marry you, I can understand; but, perhaps, when he is not under the spell of your presence, he falls to wondering how you will pronounce the social shibboleths, and may let 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would. It is idle to deny that, admitting as one must the existence of lines of social cleavage in modern life, it is often a mistake to overstep their boundaries in matrimony; though as to international alliances "
I might do the London season by borrowing from Meg. It would cost a fortune, and unless Strathay does propose perhaps even she wouldn't care to finance me now. I wish Oh, I wish I could get out of my dreams the ghastly form of Darmstetter, as I saw him dead at my feet! He haunts me all day long, and all the night I dream of him!
And did she tell you that Mrs. Sloane Schuyler begged to have her presented? Sister to a Duchess, you know. We'll have Helen in London next. Nobody there to compare with her. Just what Strathay said, I do assure you." London! Men of title, and great ladies and the glitter of a court!
"Hughy's pretty good-looking, Ethie," said Meg, amiably; "and the best fellow in the world; but probably not of a calibre to interest a college girl. And Lord Strathay" the name rolled slowly from her tongue, as if she were loth to let it go "is a charming fellow. Just succeeded to the title. He's travelling with his cousin, the Hon. Stephen Allardyce Poultney. Nelly danced with him.
Now it flashed across me that Lord Strathay loved me as I had loved Ned. That gave me a measure of the gift he was to offer. I felt Ned's kisses on my hands, bidding me be honest. I felt other kisses, too; I saw good God, how long must I see? a gray old face the face of Darmstetter! Happy! I closed my eyes to shut out the vision. I shuddered.
For one of the proudest titles from beyond the sea, before which the wealth and fashion of the city had marshalled their attractions, had passed them by to kneel at the feet of the lovely scholar. The Earl of Strathay is the twelfth Earl of his house. He is twenty-one years old. His mother, the Countess Strathay, famous as a beauty, has been prominent in the "Prince's set."
Why, your prospects were really extraordinary. But now! Where was Meg to-night? Where was Mrs. Marmaduke? Why did my own sister-in-law stay away?" "I don't know; do you?" Her harangue begun, she couldn't stop. "Where's Strathay?" she demanded. "Gone; and no announcement what was the matter? Needn't tell me you refused him! And why is the letter box always full of duns? Can't you pay your bills?
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