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No; give me Vizard Court, and plenty of money, and the man of my heart." "You have not got one, I'm afraid," said Zoe, "or you would not put him last." "Why not? when he is of the last importance," said Fanny, flippantly, and turned the laugh her way. They strolled through the village together, but in the grounds of Vizard Court Fanny fairly gave them the slip.
He and Zoe spent Elysian hours, meeting twice a day in the shrubbery, and making love as if they were the only two creatures in the world; but it was blind Elysium only to one of them Severne was uneasy and alarmed the whole time. His sagacity showed him it could not last, and there was always a creeping terror on him. Would not Uxmoor cause inquiries? Would he not be sure to tell Vizard?
"Unfortunately for your little plans of conduct, the heads of this establishment, here present, have sat in secret committee, and your wings are to be clipped by order of council." "La!" said Fanny, pertly. Vizard imposed silence with a lordly wave. "It is a laughable thing; but this divine is in earnest. He has revealed his hopes and fears to me."
The king sat down at his desk, signed the treaty, affixed the Great Seal, returned the parchment to its envelope, and, turning to Frances, said: "Now, the first kiss, my beauty!" "Not now, your Majesty. Please wait till I return," she answered, taking the treaty from the king's hand without his leave. "I do not want to disarrange my vizard till after I have returned the parchment to the Abbé.
But both young ladies were one moment too late. The eagle eye of a terrible old maid had embraced the entire situation, and they saw it had. Harrington Vizard, Esq., smoked on, with his back to the group.
The first interruption, indeed, was a recitativo with chords, followed by a verse from the leading treble. Mr. Ashmead looked puzzled; the Klosking eyed him demurely. Before the anthem concluded, Vizard tapped, and was admitted from the music-room. Ina smiled, and waved him to a chair. Both the men saw, by her manner, they were not to utter a sound while the music was going on.
Vizard, knowing his sister, and entirely deceived in Severne, exercised no vigilance; for, to do Zoe justice, none was necessary, if Severne had been the man he seemed. There was no mother in the house to tremble for her daughter, to be jealous, to watch, to question, to demand a clear explanation in short, to guard her young as only the mothers of creation do. The Elysian days rolled on.
"Curious place for his reverence to be in," hazarded Vizard. "He saw me betting, first on the black, then on the red, till I was cleaned out, and then he beckoned me." "Not a man of premature advice anyway." "He told me he had observed my play. I had been relying on the alternations of the colors, which alternation chance persistently avoids, and arrives at equality by runs.
"Take her to her room, Fanny dear," said Vizard, in a hurried, faltering voice, "and don't leave her. Rosa, help Miss Dover. Do not leave her alone, night nor day." Then to Miss Gale, "She will live? Tell me she will live." "I hope so," said Rhoda Gale. "Oh, the blow will not kill her, nor yet the loss of blood. But I fear there will be distress of mind added to the bodily shock.
"The Court" kitchen and the village bakehouse kept pouring forth meats, baked, boiled, and roast; there was a pile of loaves like a haystack; and they roasted an ox whole on the Green; and, when they found they were burning him raw, they fetched the butcher, like sensible fellows, and dismembered the giant, and so roasted him reasonably. In the midst of the reveling and feasting, Vizard and Mrs.
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