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It is all very sweet and exquisite, I know; and the Greece, where they all live and love one another, must be a very delightful country, as unlike this world as it is possible to imagine; but it wearies me. I like plain England and plain folk and plain religion and plain fare; but then I am a plain man, as I tell you so often." As the afternoon sun drew near setting, they came through Tonbridge.
She thought of what Lady Tonbridge had told her of his modest means and those generous hidden uses of them, of which even his most intimate friends only got an occasional glimpse. Suddenly she went up to him "Will you will you promise me to write civilly?" she said, in a wavering voice. "Certainly." "You won't offend insult him?"
"You mean leave go back to Merivale to-night?" "Aye, I do. You can catch the mail at Tonbridge and you'll be home afore the moon's up." "Do you know Merivale then, Jerry?" "O' course. I'll harness Diogenes an' drive you in."
All the morning, Lady Tonbridge hovered round her, loth to take her own departure, and trying every now and then to re-open the subject of London, to make the girl promise to send for her to consult Winnington, if any trouble arose. But Delia would not allow any discussion. "I shall be with Gertrude she'll tell me what to do," was all she would say.
A sudden crash was heard. "Oh, dear" cried Lady Tonbridge, who had upset a small table with a plate of cakes on it across the tail of Mrs. Andrews' dress "how stupid I am!" "My gown! my gown!" cried Mrs. Andrews in an anguish, groping for the cakes.
Since this earthquake shock, Madeleine Tonbridge could imagine nothing more unsatisfactory than the conversations between them which had begun in the drawing-room, and lingered on till, now, at nearly midnight, sheer weariness on both sides had brought them to an end.
The look of excited defiance in the girl's eyes sharpened. "Do you really want to know?" "Certainly. The Suffrage and that kind of thing?" said Madeleine Tonbridge lightly. "The Suffrage and that kind of thing!" repeated Delia, still smiling. Captain Andrews who was standing near, and whose martial mind was all in confusion, owing to Miss Blanchflower's beauty, put in an eager word.
My present worldly possessions amounted to some fourteen pounds and a valuable gold watch, thanks to the highwayman's gratitude; moreover I remembered Anthony's promise to meet me at Tonbridge and this cheered me greatly. To Tonbridge I would go and there await his coming.
Nora, whose reasonableness was abnormal, very soon took the hint, and after five minutes' "chaff" with Winnington, to whom she was devoted, she took up her work and went back to the garden. "Nobody ever snubs me so efficiently as Nora," said Madeleine Tonbridge, with resignation, "though you come a good second. Discreet I shall never be. Don't tell me anything if you don't want to."
"Yes, I'll go to Tonbridge to-morrow; you shall tell me the best way to get there, if you will." "'Tis very sure you are better of your beating." "Yes, thank God!" I answered. "Though your eyes will be black to-morrow." "Which will serve me right and properly for my cowardice." "But you're not afeard o' ghosts!" "Heaven knows," quoth I bitterly, "I might be if I saw one.
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