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Kate saw the succession of events spread out before her like a map, and the astuteness of the girl's policy frightened her. Miss Verney had conducted the campaign like a strategist. She had frankly owned that her interest in Dick's future depended on his capacity for success, and in order to key him up to his first achievement she had given him a foretaste of its results.
'Many thanks, gentlemen; but old Harry Verney was in here just now, and had seen a great jack strike, at the tail of the lower reeds. With this fresh wind he will run till noon; and you are sure of him with a dace. After that, he will not be up again on the shallows till sunset. He works the works of darkness, and comes not to the light, because his deeds are evil. Lancelot laughed.
"I believe you are interested," she said quietly; "and since I suppose you allow others the privilege you claim for yourself, I am going to confess that I followed you here in the hope of finding out the nature of your interest." Miss Verney shot a glance at her, and drew away in a soft subsidence of undulating furs. "Is this an embassy?" she asked smiling. "No: not in any sense."
Uncle Noah did not catch the girl's reply as Major Verney assisted her into the carriage and they drove rapidly away. The old darky beamed happily after the retreating carriage; then, with his hand tightly clasped about the precious roll of greenbacks for which he had so willingly bartered his freedom, he began a tour of the Cotesville stores.
When we came up alongside this morning, the vultures were all ready for him. I took them to his cabin myself. There was no fuss at all. He saw it was all up, and gave in without a murmur. They were only just in time, though. In another thirty seconds, he would have been off. It was a clever piece of work, I flatter myself, to net Mr. Nat Verney so neatly."
The old Demon likes you; he says you got him out of a tight place. Why don't you like him, Verney?" John's mind had to speculate vaguely whether or not Desmond knew the nature of the tight place tight was such a very descriptive adjective out of which he had pulled Scaife. Then he said nervously "I don't like him because because he likes you." "Likes me? What a rum 'un you are, Verney!
Half an hour later, Patricia, rested and refreshed, took her seat behind the oxen, which the owner of the cabin had harnessed up, with much protestation of his eagerness to serve the daughter of Colonel Verney, emptied her purse in the midst of the open-mouthed children, and bade kindly adieu to the good wife.
And the same Mistress Morton did this, and brought me word that her Grace had consented to my said suit, and that I should also send word unto Francis Verney, her Grace's ordinary servant lying in the town of Woodstock, with her cofferer to be messenger. Where I perceive they use as much privy conference to her Grace and from her as they list, even as I advertised your lordships long ago.
It is about a a matter of state upon which his master and I have been engaged. No one here or at Verney Manor must know that he has been at Rosemead." "Very well, my father," said Betty, meekly, "the books can wait some other opportunity." "And," with some sternness, "you will be careful to hold your tongue as to this man's presence here to-night." "Very well, father."
On the bed was spread out her last new dress a charming combination of brown and gold, to be worn with a brown hat lined with yellow. "Why, Pauline, you won't wear that dress this afternoon, will you?" asked Rose, glancing at it. "It will get so crushed." "My Rose, shall you be very disappointed? Madame Verney has asked me to go with her.
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