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The fact is that well, that I daren't risk waiting." He wondered whether that was a good omen or not. "Well, now," he said, "let me give a little account of myself first. I'm just thirty-one; I've got four hundred a year of my own, and Lord Talgarth allows me twelve hundred a year more. Then I've got other expectations, as they say.
"I think we'd better " began Jack; and stopped petrified, to see one vindictive-looking eye opened and regarding him, it seemed, with an expression of extraordinary malignity. Then the other eye opened, the mouth abruptly closed and Lord Talgarth sat up. "God bless my soul!" He rolled his eyes about a moment while intelligence came back. "You needn't be ashamed of it," said Jenny. "Mr.
He had dreamed, in wild moments, of Archie; he had certainly contemplated Dick; but Lord Talgarth himself, gouty and aged sixty-five!... And yet he had not been indignant. Indignation not only did not do with Jenny, but it was impossible.
When the speeches had been made Frank cut off with a shilling, driven to the Colonies, brought back again, and finally starved to death at his father's gates Lord Talgarth found himself in a chair, with Jenny seated opposite, and the rest of the company gone to dinner.
The Dean's face was stricken, as though by horror. Yet Frank saw he had not in the least taken it in. "Yes; that's really so," he said. "Please don't argue with me about it. I'm perfectly determined." "Your father ... Lord Talgarth ... the roads ... your own living ... the college authorities ... responsibility!" Words of this sort burst from Mr. Mackintosh's mouth.
Jenny asked intelligent questions and made herself agreeable. At the close of lunch she found herself somehow sitting on a small rock beside Dick. Lord Talgarth was twenty yards away, his gaitered legs very wide apart, surveying the country and talking to the keeper.
There's nothing to go and mope about, that Lord Talgarth has been kind enough to do me this honor. Because it is an honor, you know, however you look at it, that anyone should ask one to be his wife. "Well, I want to say what I have to say first, and then I want you to say exactly what you think. I've thought it all out, so I shan't be very long."
And this reflection caused the three considerable comfort. For all that, there were one or two "ifs." Was it likely that Frank should have heard the news? He was notoriously hard up, and the name Talgarth had not appeared, so far, on any of the posters. Yet he might easily have been given a paper, or picked one up ... and then....
There was no sign of life as they passed into the court and up to the pillared portico; and at last, when the butler appeared, the irregular state of his coat-collar showed plainly that he but that moment had put his coat on. Yes; it seemed that Lord Talgarth was probably in the garden; and, if so, almost certainly in the little square among the yews along the upper terrace.
It was the same consideration, no doubt, that had caused her to throw Frank over a month or two earlier. A Lord Talgarth in the bush was worth two cadets in the hand. That was where her sensibleness had come in, and certainly it had served her well.
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