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Thus the two girls were left very much to themselves, and were able to talk as they liked, only occasionally giving their attention to some newly-discovered wonder of Vernon's, a tadpole in the act of shedding his horny beak, or some gigantic development of the genus toadstool, which species was just then in full season.

In that hand it almost seemed as if the iron force of the character betrayed itself. But, as we have said, this slight defect, which few, if seen, would hypercritically notice, could not, of course, be perceptible as she moved slowly up the room; and Vernon's eye, glancing over the noble figure, rested upon the face. Was it handsome? Was it repelling?

There is no other way of shunning a marriage she is incomprehensibly but frantically averse to. She is in the toils. Her father will stay at Patterne Hall as long as his host desires it. She hesitates, she is overcome; in spite of a certain nausea due to Vernon's preceding alliance, she yields. Willoughby revolved the entire drama in Clara's presence. It helped him to look on her coolly.

From that hour, Lady Delville who had at first resented, from the deepest recess of her heart, Constance Vernon's accession to rank and wealth, who, had Constance deferred to her early acquaintance, would have always found something in her she could have affected to despise; from that hour, Lady Delville was the warmest advocate, and a little time after, the sincerest follower, of the youthful countess.

'I'll go back to my chambers to-morrow, he said: 'I can have a bottle of Moet there without being under an obligation to anybody. Give me some brandy and soda, he said to the butler; 'I can't drink this verjuice. 'There is no brandy, sir. 'Oh! Sir Vernon's cognac is to be kept sacred, too. I congratulate you, Vernon, upon having two such economical guardians.

Vivian's face was clouding perceptibly when some one laid his hand on Vernon's arm, and drew him aside, apparently not noticing that he was engaged, Vivian had a friend around that time. "Mr. Vernon does not evidently appreciate my partiality for him," Honor says laughingly, looking straight into Vivian's eyes. "And yet you would throw away on him, the favors I crave to obtain."

"Right 'o!" rumbled the cabman, and went lurching from the room as a constable in uniform appeared at the door. "Good mornin', guv'nor. Good mornin'!" The cabman having departed, leaving in his wake a fragrant odor of fourpenny ale: "Here you are, Sowerby!" cried Dunbar. "We are moving at last! This is the address of the late Mrs. Vernon's maid.

Debnam the late Horace Vernon's solicitor placed an absurd construction upon this"... "Do you mean," interrupted Helen in a strained voice, "that he insinuated that Mrs. Vernon"... "He had an idea that she visited Leroux yes," replied her father hastily.

Just off the Ball-room is the State Bed-room, which claims to have had Queen Elizabeth as an occupant. The great bed, fourteen feet six inches high, is considered one of the finest in England, and is finished in green velvet and white satin. They strolled out through Dorothy Vernon's door and along the lovely terrace, over which the solemn yew-trees hang low.

Upon Miss Vernon's departure, I found myself very little satisfied with my own conduct. I had hurled back offered kindness, of which circumstances had but lately pointed out the honest sincerity, and I had but just stopped short of insulting the beautiful, and, as she had said with some emphasis, the unprotected being by whom it was proffered. My conduct seemed brutal in my own eyes.