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Even so the Scythian Amazon might have spurned the livid head of Cyrus the Great King. "I will not stir till I see if no one will come who can take my part. Ah! I would give " "Don't be rash, Miss Tresilyan. You might be taken at your word."
"I should not have liked you worse for knowing that you had been unhappy once," she whispered; "but I ought never to have been vexed at not being taken into confidence. I don't think I am wise or steady enough to keep secrets; only I wish I do wish that you had told Cecil Tresilyan."
The light tone and manner of her last words might have deceived a closer observer than honest Dick Tresilyan. He lapsed into silence; but, after some time, his meditations assumed a cheerfully-roseate hue, as they resolved themselves into the fixed idea that Royston was lingering behind "to have it out with the parson."
When Cecil was alone she put something away with a very unnecessary carefulness, for surely nothing can be more valueless than a glove that has lost its mate. I am almost ashamed to confess how deeply the scene she had witnessed affected Cecil Tresilyan. The exhibition of Keene's fierce temper ought certainly to have warned, if it did not disgust her.
The lips that under the thrusts of Russian lances, and through all subsequent tortures, had guarded so jealously the secret of his agony, could not repress a groan as they syllabled the name of Cecil Tresilyan. It was so.
Fancy how useful he would be in an Arctic expedition. They might save his salary in Arnott's stoves: I'm certain he radiates." Miss Tresilyan knew that it was wrong to smile. But she had an unfortunately quick perception of the ridiculous, and the struggles of principle against a sense of humor were not always successful. She would not give up her point, though.
"I don't wonder at any one who has seen that not looking at a nautch-girl afterward." And he quickened his pace toward Mr. Molyneux's house. He met them before he reached their door. "I am going to Miss Tresilyan," Fanny said. "Isn't it lucky, her first morning here being such a delicious one?" "Ah! I thought that was your point," answered Keene.
As a rule, if one wanted to discover the one person about whose approval the fair cantatrice is most solicitous, it would be well to look not immediately behind her ivory shoulder. At all events, he had made his peace with Miss Tresilyan on this point long ago.
"As Macdonough always says when he has lost the first two rubbers, 'the night is young and drink is plenty. Admiration will develop itself if you only give it time. I have serious thoughts already of adding another to the many little poems that must have been written about Miss Tresilyan. Shall I send it to the 'United Service Gazette? It would be a great credit to our branch of the profession.
His first act, when he rose, was to send a note to Cecil Tresilyan, begging her to meet him at a named place and time: she did not answer it, nevertheless he felt certain she would come.
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