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After holding the Celebrity up to such unmeasured ridicule as she had done, ridicule not without a seasoning of contempt, it was difficult to believe Miss Thorn so inconsistent as to go alone with him to Indian rock; and she was not ignorant of Miss Trevor's experience. But the fact was attested by trustworthy persons.
In like manner Tolly Trevor's acquaintance with the native tongue consisted of the little that had been imparted to him by his friend Paul Bevan.
Then we did the rest of him, and after about half an hour, when we thought we'd done about enough, we got into our boat again, and came back." "And what did you do till half-past seven?" "We couldn't get back the way we'd come, so we slept in the boat-house." "Well I'm hanged," was Trevor's comment on the story. Clowes roared with laughter. O'Hara was a perpetual joy to him.
But I won't choose for him he can go if he likes he can go if he likes." In the end Paul "liked," since Stephen refused to influence him by so much as a word. Paul thought Stephen didn't seem to care much whether he went or stayed, and he was dazzled by Miss Trevor's charm and the lure of books and knowledge she held out to him. "I'll go, I guess," he said, with a long sigh.
When I lunched with the Trevors, at Romsey, the day of Brian's return, Mrs. Trevor's sister, Lady Micheldever, was in a state of anxiety about governesses. Her old governess was to be married in a few weeks, such an inestimable treasure that Lady Micheldever thought it would be impossible to replace her, so sweet, so ladylike, so accomplished.
Much I cared then what happened. Then came Miss Trevor's reply, and it seemed to shake the very foundations of my wits. "But, Marian," said she, "you can't have him. He is engaged to me. And if it's quite the same to you, I want him myself. It isn't often, you know, that one has the opportunity to marry a Celebrity."
And an added pang of shame and regret was given to the proud, high-spirited child when, at the conclusion of Miss Trevor's rambling tale, her aunt turned to her, and said: "Why, Lena, that gold must have been those cherished sovereigns which Hannah destined for her monument and 'epithet. Why should she have sent them to Percy?
Trevor dashed downstairs in his energetic way, and overtook the youth referred to. Clowes brooded over them from above like a sorrowful and rather disgusted Providence. Trevor's liking for Ruthven, who was a Donaldsonite like himself, was one of the few points on which the two had any real disagreement.
Pratt and his ghastly gratitude. She put her stiffest bow into practice and walked on. For the rest of the day she tried to account for young Trevor's mid-week appearance. Her curiosity was soon satisfied, though she was at a disadvantage in having no male to bring her news from the Woolpack.
He was one for whose indiscretions there might be some excuse; nor had anything ever transpired which could induce us to believe that Baron von Konigstein could be guilty of anything but an indiscretion. At this period a relation and former ward of Mr. Trevor's, a young man of considerable fortune, and one whom we all fondly loved, resided in our family. We considered him as our brother.
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