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And you will do what I ask?" "If I don't, what will you do?" "I shall write to Eugene. I shall see Haddington; and I shall see your aunt. I shall tell them all that I know, and how I know it. Come, Miss Bernard, don't be foolish. You had better take Haddington." "I know it's all a plot. You're all fighting in that little creature's interest." "Meaning ?" "Claudia Territon.
Ayre did not talk freely on the matter. He fenced with the idle inquiries of the Territon brothers; he calmed Mrs. Lane's solicitude with soothing words; he put Morewood off with a sneer at the transitoriness of love-affairs in general. To Eugene he spoke more openly, and did not hesitate to congratulate himself on the part he had taken in reconciling Stafford to life and work.
Lane's work was reposing in her lap; her sister, Miss Jane Chambers, had ceased the pretense of reading; the Rector was enjoying what he kept assuring himself was only just five minutes' peace before he crossed over to his parsonage and his sermon; Lady Claudia Territon and Miss Katharine Bernard were each in possession of a wicker lounge, while at their feet lay two young men in flannels, with lawn-tennis racquets lying idle by them.
Bob Territon was not the only person in whom Eugene's engagement to Kate Bernard inspired some surprise. But neither he nor any one else succeeded in formulating very definite reasons for the feeling. Kate was a beauty, and a beauty of a type undeniably orthodox and almost aristocratic.
In truth, Eugene, though naturally observant, was, like all men, a little blind where he himself was concerned; and perhaps a shrewd spectator would have connected Haddington in some way with Miss Kate's maneuvers. Such, at any rate, was the view of Bob Territon, and no doubt he would have expressed it with his usual frankness if he had not had his own reasons for keeping silence.
Haddington's opinion, might well pave the way to a closer union, and this hope accounted for his having consented to pair with Eugene, who sat on the other side, and spend the last week in idleness at Millstead. "Well," said Mr. Robert Territon, "it sounds slow, old man." "Candid family, the Territons," remarked Eugene to the copper-beech.
Eugene pondered; "I can't have her, and Stafford may as well if he will. Will he, I wonder? And would she? Oh, Lord! what a nuisance they are! By Jove! I should like to see Kate's face if she spots us." A few minutes later the strange and unedifying sight of Lady Claudia Territon and Mr.
I have found my goddess." The door opened suddenly, and Bob Territon entered at the very moment when Eugene was sealing his vow of homage. Bob was pleased to be playful. Holding his hands before his face, he turned and pretended to fly. "Come in, old man," cried Eugene, "and congratulate me!" "Oh! you have fixed it, have you?" "We have. Don't you think we shall do very well together?"
"This," said Ayre to Morewood, with a wave of his hand, "is an abandoned young man." "It is," said Morewood. "Bob Territon is going rat-hunting, and proposes we shall also go. What say you?" "I say yes," said Sir Roderick, with alacrity. "It's a beastly cruel sport." "You have lost," said Morewood, as they walked away together. "Wait a bit!" said his companion. "But, young Eugene!
Territon doesn't leave her husband now for McLaurin," opined Marrineal, "we are in a difficult position. I happen to know her and I very much doubt " "Doubt not at all, d-doubting Tertius. The very fact of our publishing the story will force her hand. It's an achievement, that story. No other p-paper has a line of it." "Not more than one other would touch it, in its present form," said Banneker.
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