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Harry's countenance fell; tears came into his eyes, and he gazed on Lady Vandeleur with a tender reproach. "My Lady," said he, "what is an insult? I should think little indeed of any one who could not forgive them by the score. But to leave one's friends; to tear up the bonds of affection " He was unable to continue, for his emotion choked him, and he began to weep.
"Good evening, Miss Vandeleur," said Florizel; "you look fatigued. Mr. Rolles, I believe? I hope you have profited by the study of Gaboriau, Mr. Rolles." But the young clergyman's temper was too much embittered for speech; and he contented himself with bowing stiffly, and continued to gnaw his lip. "To what good wind," said Mr.
"What have you done?" cried Miss Vandeleur. "He is dead!" The Dictator replied in a violent whisper, so strong and sibilant that every word was audible to the watcher at the window. "Silence!" said Mr. Vandeleur; "the man is as well as I am. Take him by the heels whilst I carry him by the shoulders." Francis heard Miss Vandeleur break forth into a passion of tears.
You must content yourself with the explanation I have already given you of Sir Ambrose Tester and Lady Vandeleur: they are following hand in hand, as it were the path of duty. This will not prevent me from telling everything; on the contrary, don't you see? His brilliant prospects dated from the death of his brother, who had no children, had indeed steadily refused to marry.
"Your suspicions begin to annoy me, Rolles," said the older man. "I tell you I am doing my utmost; a man cannot lay his hand on millions in a moment. Have I not taken you up, a mere stranger, out of pure good-will? Are you not living largely on my bounty?" "On your advances, Mr. Vandeleur," corrected the other.
The sun shone brightly; the distance he had to travel was considerable, and he remembered with dismay that the General's sudden irruption had prevented Lady Vandeleur from giving him money for a cab.
He recovered himself with a stagger, and in three bounds crossed the intervening space and stood before the door in the verandah. In a small apartment, carpeted with matting and surrounded by glazed cabinets full of rare and costly curios, Mr. Vandeleur was stooping over the body of Mr. Rolles. He raised himself as Francis entered, and there was an instantaneous passage of hands.
Rolles beheld this other fellow-passenger ushered by several porters into his place; certainly, there was not another man in the world whom he would not have preferred for it was old John Vandeleur, the ex-Dictator.
Gerard quite started when he heard the name, which he remembered quite well. Harry said that Mr. Cosmo Vandeleur was grave and quiet, he and Lindsay felt rather afraid of him, but they would know better what sort of person he was when they had spent the holidays with him.
What would be said of her set of old china if she inserted such a piece of new porcelain? What would Miss Lavinia Vandeleur, special oracle on the genealogy of the exclusive families, think, if Mrs. Gouverneur should be so recreant to right principles as to invite a young man without a single grandfather to his back, only because he had virtues of his own?
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