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Dering, with her sweet, motherly ways, and surrounded by such lovely attractions, seemed to charm him; and Ralph Tremayne possessed a wonderful influence over him some way, which served to bring him there more frequently than he could have found an excuse for coming, if that young gentleman had not formed a part of the household.
"Captain Tremayne," he said, "let me beg you to realise the serious position in which you are placed." "I assure you, sir, that I realise it fully." "Do you realise that the statements you have made to account for your movements during the half-hour that you were at Monsanto have been disproved?
Noble alike by lineage and nature, no fairer mistress could have been found for the lands of Tremayne and Alanmere, but what seas of blood and flame now lay between him and the realisation of his love-ideal! He must forsake his own, and become a revolutionary and an outcast from Society.
It was not merely what he saw, it was his knowledge of what was; it was his ever-present consciousness of his own age and his wife's youth; it was the memory of his ante-nuptial jealousy of Tremayne which had been awakened by the gossip of those days a gossip that pronounced Tremayne Una Butler's poor suitor, too poor either to declare himself or to be accepted if he did.
What a lovely tribe of us to go out picnics!" "We'll have the time of our lives!" Burswood Farm, where Mr. and Mrs. Percy Tremayne had taken rooms, was on the hillside above Chagmouth. It was a delightful spot, with that airy feeling about it that comes from looking down upon your neighbours' chimneys. "I wouldn't live in Chagmouth, not if you paid me hundreds a year!" declared Mrs.
"I spoke quite generally, sir," Tremayne assured him, partly under the suasion of Sir Terence's interposition, partly out of consideration for the ladies, who were looking scared. "Of course, if you choose to take it to yourself, sir, that is a matter for your own discretion. I think," he added, also with a smile, "that the ladies find the topic tiresome."
Now, by a chance remark whose indiscretion Tremayne could not realise, since he did not so much as suspect the existence of that devil, he had suddenly prodded him into wakefulness. That Tremayne should show himself tender of Lady O'Moy's feelings in a matter in which O'Moy himself must seem neglectful of them was gall and wormwood to the adjutant.
"I am the Chief of the Central Council, and I order every one here to keep his seat and remain silent until the daughter of Natas has spoken." The ten masked and hooded heads instantly bowed consent. Then Tremayne stepped back again, and Natasha spoke.
"But you may rest assured that the Master's way is the best, and will prove the shortest road to the universal peace which can only come through universal war. Courage, my friend, and patience! There will be a heavy reckoning to pay for this sort of thing one day, and that before very long." "Ha!" exclaimed Tremayne. "There goes the other fort. I suppose it will be the turn of the ships next.
"Oh, a clean conscience, I suppose," laughed Tremayne, and he gave his attention to his papers. Frankness, honesty and light-heartedness rang so clear in the words that they sowed in Sir Terence's mind fresh doubts of the galling suspicion he had been harbouring. "Do you boast a clean conscience, eh, Ned?" he asked, not without a lurking shame at this deliberate sly searching of the other's mind.
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