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She led the way, past the drawing-room where Lady Tonbridge sat rather anxiously expecting her, to that bare room on the ground floor, the little gun-room, which Gertrude Marvell had made her office, and where many signs of her occupation still remained a calendar on the wall marking the "glorious" dates of the League a flashlight photograph of the first raid on Parliament some years before a faded badge, and scattered piles of newspapers.
Past Tonbridge School went the coach, and on through Southborough, until it wound down a steep, curving road with strange outcrops of sandstone beside it, and halted before a great hostelry, bearing the name which had been given him in his directions. He descended, entered the coffee-room, and ordered the underdone steak which his trainer had recommended.
Well, but did all this mean love? the desire of the man for the woman. Madeleine Tonbridge pondered it. She recollected a number of little acts and sayings, throwing light upon his profound feeling for the girl, his sympathy with her convictions, her difficulties, her wild revolts against existing abuses and tyrannies.
YOUNG SIR: What is one thing at night is another in the morning, so I have gone my way and taken my course appointed. If you should wish to meet me again, which would be strange, I think, you shall hear of me at the White Hart nigh to Sevenoaks, or the Chequers at Tonbridge or from mostly any of the padding kind, since the high road is my home and has been long.
"Though I greatly fear I shall never taste their like again." "Anything'll taste good," quoth she, rising, "if you're hungry enough!" "Diana," said I, watching her as she flitted lightly to and fro, engaged on what she called "tidying up." "Diana, what are we going to do?" "I thought we were going to Tonbridge?" "I am." "Well then, the sooner we starts the better."
But he bore no grudge against the inmates of the bank, such as he had borne against the inmates of Sedleigh. He had looked on the latter as bound up with the school, and, consequently, enemies. His fellow workers in the bank he regarded as companions in misfortune. They were all in the same boat together. There were men from Tonbridge, Dulwich, Bedford, St Paul's, and a dozen other schools.
Buxton; and at six o'clock that evening presented himself at the "Running Horse," and was shown up to a private parlour. He found Mr. Buxton in the highest good-humour; he was even now on his way from Wisbeach, home again to Tonbridge, and was only staying in London to finish a little business he had. Before supper was over, Anthony had laid his difficulties before him.
"Your best course would be to make for Tonbridge, bearing to the right when you strike the high road." The Postilion nodded, and, gathering up the reins, turned to stare at me once more, while I stood in the gleam of the lanthorn. "Well?" I inquired.
It was the touch of this new softness, this note of innocent appeal, even of bewildered distress, in her, which was kindling all his manhood, and breaking down his determination. He raged at the thought of Lathrop. As to any danger of a love-affair, like Lady Tonbridge, he scouted the notion. It would be an insult to Delia to suppose such a thing.
"But Tonbridge is a goodish step from here and you look tired, my lad, peaked and pale about the gills. Are ye hungry?" "Yes, sir!" "Ha, thought so! Must eat beef beef's the thing! d'ye like beef, hey?" "Yes, sir!" "How about pudding-steak and kidney pudding d'ye like that?" "Yes, sir!" "Good lad! So do I! Just had some in the 'Artichoke' yonder all hot! Go and do likewise, my poor lad!
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