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That dread was momentarily lifted, for in those beautiful dark eyes of Diana innocence and ignorance were still written; but none the less he trembled for her; he saw her as he had seen her at Tallyn, a creature doomed, and consecrate to pain. Why, in the name of justice and pity, had her father done this thing?
A long series of causes had led up to it, to be summed up perhaps in one the harsh and domineering temper of the man who had for years managed the three Tallyn collieries, and who held Lady Lucy and her co-shareholders in the hollow of his hand.
She would like Tallyn, no doubt, as a place of retreat, should other plans fail; but it will not be open to her!" It was not energy now vindictive energy that was lacking to the personality before him! "An odious young woman" exclaimed Sir James, lifting hands and eyebrows. "I am afraid I always thought so, saving your presence, Lady Lucy.
But neither had she expected, on the other side, a certainty so immediate and so unqualified. She saw before her no settled or resigned grief. The Tallyn tragedy had transformed what had been almost a recovered serenity, a restored and patient equilibrium, into something violent, tumultuous, unstable prophesying action. But what poor child! could the action be? "Poor Hugh!" said Mrs.
He left his bag at the village inn, tried to ignore the scarcely concealed astonishment with which the well-known master or reputed master of Tallyn was received within its extremely modest walls, and walked up to the manor-house. There he had a short conversation with Mrs. Colwood, who did not propose to tell Diana of his arrival till the morning.
"Mr. Marsham's Rossetti! I am glad. Now I can face him!" She looked up all smiles. "Do you know that I am going to take you to a party next week? to the Marshams? They live near here at Tallyn Hall. They have asked us for two nights Thursday to Saturday. I hope you won't mind." "Have I got a dress?" said Mrs. Colwood, anxiously. "Oh, that doesn't matter! not at the Marshams.
Sir James, not without a sly smile, discharged arrow-like at the retreating enemy, took the seat she had vacated. "This is your first visit to Tallyn, Miss Mallory?" The voice speaking was the voix d'or familiar to Englishmen in many a famous case, capable of any note, any inflection, to which sarcasm or wrath, shrewdness or pathos, might desire to tune it.
It kept the Captain at Beechcote, but it did not prevent him from coming over every Sunday to Tallyn to bring flowers or letters, or news from the village; and it was positively benefited by such mild exercise as a man may take, in company with a little round-eyed woman, feather-light and active, yet in relation to Diana, like a tethered dove, that can only take short flights.
At last he was headed away from Tallyn and its owners, only to fall into a rapturous debate with Fanny over a racing bet which seemed to have been offered and taken on the journey which first made them acquainted. Fanny had lost, but the young man gallantly excused her. "No no, couldn't think of it! Not till next time. Then my word!
He was carried away, enchanted; he had eyes for no one, time for no one but Diana; and before the end of the evening the gossip among the Tallyn guests ran fast and free.
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