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Christabel seized the opportunity, and took up the thread of conversation before any one else had time to come forward. "Mr Talbot, I've been waiting to ask you a question. Do you know anybody called Vanburgh? The Grange is let at last, and the gentleman's name is Vanburgh. We are simply aching to get to know something about them.
The appearance of the old butler in the doorway did indeed evoke a thrill of nervousness, but then, what mattered? Visitors were never admitted, and she would certainly be dismissed, even as the others had been before her! She quite prided herself upon the sang-froid with which she made the usual inquiry "Mr Vanburgh is at home, I presume? Will he be able to see me this afternoon?"
A word from Lilias had introduced him to this heir of the Mr Vanburgh of whom he had heard so much, and now he eyed him narrowly, forming his own swift conclusion. "Dandified! Affected! Fine face, though; good expression! Decent fellow, I should say, if the nonsense were knocked out of him. Uncommonly pleased to see Nan, too. This must be looked into!"
"Et puis vous savez, elle peut dit: `J'espere, Madame Vanburgh, que vos mademoiselles seraient tres grand amies avec mes filles. Voulez vous permittez qu'elles venez a the mercredi prochaine?" "Oui, et puis elles nous inviteraient en retourn." Christabel tossed her mane over her shoulders and smiled in anticipation.
"I am so pleased to meet you, for I know all about you. `Gervase Farrington Vanburgh'," she checked off each word on uplifted fingers, and nodded her head with an air of triumph at the completeness of her information. "`The Boundaries, Lipton, Devonshire. I have posted ever so many notes to you, and once I addressed an envelope.
That seems to me very hard to be unselfish and take up uncongenial work, and then to meet with nothing but failure and disappointment! I should expect to be rewarded by making piles of money, but poor old Ned has lost almost all he has. Dear, sweet, kind Mr Vanburgh, find him another opening do!" The old man smiled, and laid his worn fingers caressingly over the girl's hand.
"I beg your pardon," drawled the stranger, and stared back out of a pair of handsome, sleepy eyes, "You er you expected to see Mr Vanburgh; I am sorry to say he is not very well " "Not well? Oh dear, I'm sorry! And are you the doctor? Have you come from town?" "Oh no!" The tall man smiled, as if, for some reason, the idea seemed quite preposterous to his mind. "I am not the doctor.
It was not only I, but every one who met him said the same thing: that they had never seen his equal. All that I did was for him, to prepare for the time when he should succeed me. He was so strong, so full of life; it seemed impossible that he could die." "Mr Vanburgh, how did you bear it? How can people go through such trials and live?
"That Vanburgh fellow, for instance, is, I suppose, better-looking to the casual glance than I am myself, but I don't need to point out to you the infinite superiority of my character. Whenever, my estimable Katherine, you meet with a man who is popularly styled handsome, take my word for it, he is a wolf in sheep's clothing, and ought to be avoided.
I wouldn't be like you for the whole wide world!" she declared; and Gervase Vanburgh fixed his melancholy eyes upon her, and said tragically "And I would give the whole wide world if I could once more care and hope like you!" This was disconcerting.
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