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There is quite a murmur of applause as she rises, and through it there breaks Miss Catheron's soft, sarcastic laugh. The flush deepens in Ethel's cheek the laugh is at her performance she feels. And now the hour of Inez's vengeance comes. Young Captain Varden is leaning over her chair; he is in love with Miss Catheron, and hovers about her unceasingly.
'Varden, said Mr Haredale, after a minute's pause, 'you will be amazed to hear what errand I am on; it will seem a very strange one. 'I have no doubt it's a reasonable one, sir, and has a meaning in it, replied the locksmith; 'or it would not be yours at all. Have you just come back to town, sir? 'But half an hour ago.
"Dear Rickie," she murmured with averted eyes. "How tiresome for you." "I wish that Varden had stopped with Mrs. Orr." "Well, he leaves us for good tomorrow." "Yes, yes. And I made him answer the letter and apologize. They had never met. It was some confusion with a man in the Church Army, living at a place called Codford. I asked the nurse. It is all explained." "There the matter ends."
'I am much obliged to you, I am sure, returned Edward. 'You encourage me to say that I have come here now, to beg your good offices. Mrs Varden was delighted beyond measure.
I am something of an angler, and Sandy knew how to treat a Dolly Varden to divide honors with a rainbow; so while the others were pitching the tents, it fell to me to push up stream with my rod and flies.
'Ah, ma'am humanity is indeed a happy lot, when we can repeat ourselves in others, and still be young as they. You must allow me to salute you the custom of the country, my dear madam your daughter too. Dolly showed some reluctance to perform this ceremony, but was sharply reproved by Mrs Varden, who insisted on her undergoing it that minute.
You found me with this stab and an ugly bruise or two, and without my purse in which he found little enough for his pains. And now, Mr Varden, he added, shaking the locksmith by the hand, 'saving the extent of my gratitude to you, you know as much as I. 'Except, said Gabriel, bending down yet more, and looking cautiously towards their silent neighhour, 'except in respect of the robber himself.
'My dear ma'am, said Mr Chester, 'you embolden me to be plain with you. My son and I are at variance on this point. The young lady and her natural guardian differ upon it, also. And the closing point is, that my son is bound by his duty to me, by his honour, by every solemn tie and obligation, to marry some one else. 'Engaged to marry another lady! quoth Mrs Varden, holding up her hands.
Mrs Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable. Thus it generally happened, that when other people were merry, Mrs Varden was dull; and that when other people were dull, Mrs Varden was disposed to be amazingly cheerful.
Then she laughed heartily. "Well done, Jennie!" she cried. "Why, you are such a fashionable lady, such a Dolly Varden, I never saw who you were. How do you do? Won't you sit down and have a chat? It's just dawning on me that very possibly, from your dress and manner, I SHOULD have called you Mrs. Jardine." "Didn't he tell you?" cried Jennie. "He did not," said Kate. "Your name was not mentioned.
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