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By sheer perfection of mechanical energy it had bridged the gulf that lay between the millionaire's daughter and the hired man, since there could be no question that Cynthia Vanrenen placed Viscount Medenham in no other category.
What would Miss Vanrenen have thought had he continued: "I sent my chauffeur to England, and, on receipt of his report, I had this car shipped within a week?" There are problems too deep for speculation when a man is guiding a ton of palpitating metal along a hedge-lined road at forty miles an hour. This was one.
This Maria Vanrenen, as it happened, was a remote collateral ancestress of the Vandrifts, before they emigrated to the Cape in 1780; and the existence of the portrait, though not its whereabouts, was well known in the family. Isabel had often mentioned it. Dr. Polperro talked a good deal after that about this valuable find.
How splendid you were!" "Please don't. I haven't said a word to you, and I don't mean to." "But " "Well, say it, if you must." "I am not going to compliment you in the ordinary terms. Just this nature intended you to be a soldier's bride, Miss Vanrenen." "Nature, being feminine, may promise that which she does not always mean to carry out.
In any event, it was doubtful whether she would wish her father to hear of the escapade until she told him herself at the close of the tour. "I am sure Miss Vanrenen felt safe while in my care," was all he dared to say, but Cynthia promptly understood his perplexity and came to his aid. "Mrs. Devar thinks far more of our adventure than we do," she broke in.
Marinny off your track. Simmonds is no fool, my lord, an' he guesses that the Frenchman brought Mr. Vanrenen hot-foot from Paris so as to to " Dale grinned, and sought inspiration in the bottom of an empty glass. "Well, my lord, excuse me," he said, "but you know what I mean." Medenham completed the sentence. "So as to prevent me from marrying Miss Cynthia."
"I have done you a good turn, Simmonds are you prepared to do me one?" "Just try me, sir." "Put your car out of commission. Stick a pin through the earth contact of your magneto and jam it against a cylinder, or something of the sort. Then go to Miss Vanrenen and tell her how sorry you are, but you must have another week at least to pull things straight.
Of what else should they whisper on this midsummer's night, when the gloaming already bore the promise of dawn, and the glory of the sea and sky spread quiet harmonies through the silent air? Perhaps he sighed as he turned away, but his own evidence on that point would be inconclusive, since the first object his wondering eyes dwelt on was the graceful figure of Cynthia Vanrenen.
"Is George in it? that would be unusual." Fairholme suddenly bethought himself. "Something to do with a motor," he said vaguely. "The Vanrenens are Americans, friends of Mrs. Leland's. You remember her, Arthur, don't you?" "Perfectly. Is 'Vanrenen' the Peter of that ilk?" "I think so. Yes that is the name Peter Vanrenen." "Oh, he's all right.
The real Maria Vanrenen, he declared and swore, was the one he offered us. "Success has turned the man's head," Charles said to me, well pleased. "He thinks we will swallow any obvious lie he chooses to palm off upon us. But the bucket has come once too often to the well. This time we checkmate him."
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