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You are better without him, Viviette, and are now just the limb for doing something for yourself, notwithstanding the threadbare state in which you seem to have been cast upon the world. You might make a position for us both by some such alliance; for, to tell the truth, I have had but in-and-out luck so far.
Esau could not have raged more against Jacob, the supplanter, than did Dick, when Austin carried off Viviette from beneath his nose. Until this visit of Austin he had no idea that he would find a rival in his brother. The discovery was a shock, causing his world to reel and setting free all the pent-up jealousies and grievances of a lifetime.
"I really don't see why you're so angry, Dick," she said, lifting candid eyes. "I explained why we had gone in my note." "I didn't read the note," said Dick wrath-fully. "A thousand notes couldn't have explained it. I tore the note into little pieces." Viviette rose. "If that's the way you treat me," she said, piqued, "I have nothing more to say to you."
When he returned to the country he again offered her his title, and being rejected a second time, again called her a little devil, and went back to the fashionable supper-room. A third and a fourth time he executed this complicated manoeuvre; and now news had reached Viviette that he was in residence at Farfield, where he was boring himself exceedingly in his father's scientific library.
The Devil entered into her. "We must get to Witherby and back before lunch. You drive me over instead of Dick." They exchanged glances. Austin was young. He was in love with her. Dick had committed the unpardonable offence of being late. It would serve him right. "I'll come," said he, disappearing in search of cap and gloves. Viviette went into the hall and scribbled a note.
It was easy to go there now: by a cross path he could be at the mansion almost as soon as by the direct road. And yet Swithin did not turn; he felt an indescribable reluctance to see Viviette. He could not exactly say why. True, before he knew how the land lay it might be awkward to attempt to call: and this was a sufficient excuse for postponement.
Now, it came to his knowledge that Lord Estcombe had been using blackguard means to win away the girl's affections. And one day they were here" he moved a pace or two to one side "just as Austin and I are now. And the girl over there " Viviette, with a gay laugh, took up her position on the spot to which he pointed. "Just in this identical place. I know the story it's lovely!"
Torkingham was horrified at the irreverent and easy familiarity of Louis Glanville's talk in the presence of a consecrated bishop. As for Viviette, her tongue lost all its volubility. She felt quite faint at heart, and hardly knew how to control herself. 'I have never noticed anything of the sort, said Mr. Torkingham.
So much the less could Viviette, child of a freer, franker day, hide her just indignation under the rose-leaves of maidenly modesty. "Happy!" she echoed. "I've known you since I was a child of three. I know the meaning of every light and every shadow that passes over your face except this shadow now. What does it mean?"
Now the trouble would be saved in a very delightful way, by the exercise of a little hospitality which Viviette herself would not have dared to suggest. Dinner-time came and with it Swithin, exhibiting rather a blushing and nervous manner that was, unfortunately, more likely to betray their cause than was Viviette's own more practised bearing.
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