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Stanway cares, I will walk down with her, said Arthur Twemlow. 'Yes, do, Twemlow, there's a good chap, he welcomed the idea. And with that he wafted them impulsively into the street. Then Stanway stood waiting by his equipage for Ethel and Milly. He spoke to no one, but examined the harness critically, and put some curt question to Carpenter about the breeching.
And Milly's running was so girlish, simple, and unaffected, that Leonora seemed by means of it to have found her daughter again, the daughter who had disappeared in the adroit and impudent creature of the footlights. She was glad of the reassurance. 'Here's Mr. Twemlow, mamma, said Milly, with a rather embarrassed air; and they looked at each other, while Bran frowned in glancing upwards.
'for so, she says, 'from this night all men shall kneel all men on whom I deign to cast my eyes." His Grace the Duke of Osmonde had listened silently, and throughout with an impenetrable face, but at this moment he put up his hand and slightly swept his brow with his fingers, as if he felt it damp. "And now what does it mean?" my Lord Twemlow asked them, with an anxious face.
Beach appeared in due season, a little distrait, as becomes a man who has just been engaged on important and responsible duties. "Alfred spilled the hock!" Ashe heard him announce to Mrs. Twemlow in a bitter undertone. "Within half an inch of his lordship's arm he spilled it." Mrs. Twemlow murmured condolences. Mr.
"We are quite aware of that" Miss Twemlow came to her mother's relief very sharply "but still they are apt to burst, or to be overloaded, or badly directed, or even to fly back suddenly, as I have heard on good authority." "Very likely, miss, when they are commanded by young women." Eliza Twemlow coloured, for she was rather quick of temper; but she did not condescend to pay rudeness in kind.
Something in the excellence of Meshach's cigars, in his way of calling a woman fine, in the dry, aloof masculinity of his attitude towards Hannah, gave Twemlow to reflect that in the fundamental deeps of experience New York was perhaps not so far ahead of the old Five Towns after all. There was a fluttering in the lobby, and Millicent ran into the parlour, hurriedly, negligently.
Leonora and her three daughters stood in the crowd on the platform of Knype railway station, waiting for Arthur Twemlow and for the London express. John had brought them to the station in the waggonette, had kissed Rose and purchased her ticket, and had then driven off to a creditors' meeting at Hanbridge. All the women felt rather mournful amid that bustle and confusion.
But from time to time it was considered needful to keep up her Majesty's repulsion by serving Erle Twemlow with another dose of that which would have created for the English fair capillary attraction.
'Twas this which was talked of at the clubs and coffee-houses, where her name was known by those frequenting them. "She would be like a hare let loose to be hounded to her death by every pack in the county," my Lord Twemlow had said the night he talked of her at Dunstan's Wolde, and every man agreed with him and waited for the outburst of a scandal, and made bets as to when it would break forth.
They walked down the steps side by side, Leonora in the middle, watched curiously from above and below by little knots of people who still lingered in front of the chapel. 'You soon got to work here, Mr. Twemlow, said Leonora lightly. He laughed. 'I guess you mean that collecting box. That was Mr. Myatt's game. He didn't do me right, you know.
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