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And now, before Eton goes in, we must climb on to the Trent coach. Fluff and his brother Cosmo, the Eton bowler, are lunching in other company, but we shall find Colonel Egerton and the Caterpillar and Warde; so the Hill slightly outnumbers the Plain, as the duke puts it. Next to the duchess sits Mrs. Verney.
'Yes, do try not to come, I mean. And will you do everything I tell you? 'I suppose it will please you if I dine with Hyacinth Verney this evening? She asked me yesterday. I said I was half-engaged, but would let her know. 'Yes, it would please me very much indeed, said Mrs Raymond. 'Please do it, and try to know her better. She's sweet. I don't know her, but 'All right.
The interview was shaping itself very differently to what she had expected. Elaine turned her bandaged head towards her in surprise. "But John tells me you've offered to release him!" "Offered to release him! My dear Miss Verney, Clifford must have been saying pretty things to soothe you.
"Verney," said the Countess, "I need not recommend this dear girl to you, for your own sake you will preserve her. Were the world as it was, I should have a thousand sage precautions to impress, that one so sensitive, good, and beauteous, might escape the dangers that used to lurk for the destruction of the fair and excellent. This is all nothing now.
Come and have tea, Miss Verney. Hyacinth did not speak a word to Anne on their way home, nor did she refer to the afternoon, nor answer any remark of Anne's on the subject till that evening, when Anne came into her room to complain of the electric light and make fun of Lord Selsey's guests. Then she found Hyacinth sobbing, and saying 'I shall get over it. I shall be all right tomorrow.
For the present, you are my guest." The Governor choked down his passion, though with difficulty. "Till to-night then " he began, when Colonel Verney interposed. "Neither to-night, nor at any other time," he said sturdily. "Gadzooks! have not his Majesty's servants enough on hand without employing their time in pinking one another?
"Don't try to be funny with me, Verney." "Oh no, sir, as if I should dare!" "Well, well, we are wasting time. Trieve sent you to Lovell's room to fetch Scaife?" "Yes, sir." "And what was Scaife doing when you went into the room? Be very careful!" John considered. "He was laughing, sir." "Laughing, was he?"
She was lavishly but not indiscriminately interested in the evidences of her host's industry, and as the other guests assembled, straying with vague ejaculations through the labyrinth of scale drawings and blue prints, Mrs. Peyton noted that Miss Verney alone knew what these symbols stood for.
The toast was drunk with fervor, and the party broke up. The Governor, with Colonel Ludlow and Captain Laramore, was to sleep at Verney Manor, and Mistress Betty Carrington was left by her father to bear Patricia company for a day or two. One by one the remainder of the company rode or sailed away, those who had an even keel beneath them being in much better case than their brethren on horseback.
"I should be sorry to think your admiration unintelligent," she said. "I like to feel that my boy's work is appreciated by people who understand it." "Oh, I have the usual smattering," said Miss Verney carelessly. "I think I know why I admire his work; but then I am sure I see more in it when some one like Mr. Darrow tells me how remarkable it is." "Does Mr.
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