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"No one need be anxious any more," announced Jenny imperturbably. "Lord Talgarth's extremely angry still, as he has every right to be, and Frank's going to be allowed to go on the tramp if he wants to." The Rector waited, in deferential silence, for corroboration. "Jenny's a very sensible girl," observed Lord Talgarth. "And what she says is quite right." "Do you mean to say " began Archie.
He knew with the kind of certitude that neither needs nor appeals to evidence that Jenny would certainly have accepted him if it had not been that Lord Talgarth had already dawned on her horizon, and that she put him off for a while simply to see whether this elderly sun would rise yet higher in the heavens.
After tea Lord Talgarth lay back in his chair and appeared to meditate, as was observed by the man who fetched out the tea-things and poked the fire; and he was still meditating, though now there was the aromatic smell of tobacco upon the air, when his own man came to tell him that it was time to dress.
He heard the swish of her dress pass up the stairs, and then the closing of a door. But he hardly heeded it. He was reading the note she had given him. It was a short, perfectly formal offer of marriage to her from Lord Talgarth. "Father, dear," said Jenny, "I want you to let me have my say straight out, will you?" He bowed his head.
"And suppose he thinks that's a bit too near to ... to Lady Talgarth.". This switched Jack back again to a line he had already run on for an hour this evening. "Yes, that's the ghastly part of it all. He's sure not to have heard. And who the devil's to tell him? And how will he take it?" "Do you know," said Dick, "I'm really not frightened about that?
He opened upon the subject that chiefly occupied his thoughts just now with Archie that night when Lord Talgarth had gone to bed. They were sitting in the smoking-room, with the outer door well open to admit the warm evening air. They had discussed the prospects of grouse next day with all proper solemnity, and Archie had enumerated the people who were to form their party.
He was sitting in his study one morning to be accurate, it was the first Saturday in November, two days after the events of the last chapter preparing to begin the composition of his sermon for the next day. They had dined up at the great house the night before quite quietly with Lord Talgarth and Archie, who had just come back.
Clarkson ran out to tell us that Lord Talgarth it's a telegram or something. Father sent me to tell you." Archie looked at her a second; then he was gone, swiftly, but not hurriedly. The girl turned to Dick. "I'm afraid it's something about Frank," she said. "I heard Clarkson mention his name to father. Is there any more news?" Dick laid down his cue across the table.
I suppose it would have to be about eight hundred a year. And Talgarth must have at least thirty thousand." "Oh! he's more than that," said Jenny. "He gives Mr. Dick twelve hundred." There was a pause. Jack did not know what to think. He was only quite certain that the thing would have been far worse if he had attempted to manage it himself. "Well, what shall I say to Frank?" he asked.
The Dean of Trinity had telegraphed in great dismay on the morning following his first communication that Frank had gone, and that no one had the slightest idea of his destination; he had asked whether he should put detectives on the track, and had been bidden, in return, politely but quite firmly, to mind his own business and leave Lord Talgarth's younger son to Lord Talgarth.
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