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"Joy must ha' steadied her. . . . Clams, is it? Clams, I hope." The meal over, Ruth took leave of them, reproaching herself for her haste, though troubled to have delayed the grooms so long. She mounted and rode forward thoughtfully. The grooms did not wear the Vyell white and scarlet, but a sober livery of dark blue.
When at length he moved on it was to take, not the path which wound inland to Mendarva's, but the one which led straight over the higher moors to Carwithiel. It was between one and two o'clock when he reached the house and asked to see Mr. and Mrs. George Vyell, They were not at home, the footman said; had left for Falmouth the evening before to join some friends on a yachting cruise.
"Did you know that, believing it, I had done him a great wrong injured his life beyond repair?" "I knew something had happened: that he'd given up being a gentleman and taken to builder's work. I thought maybe you were at the bottom of it. Who was it told you lies about en?" "Must I answer that?" "No; no need. George Vyell was a nice fellow; but he was a liar. Couldn't help it, I b'lieve.
The dinner set before Captain Vyell comprised a dish of oysters, a fish chowder, a curried crab, a fried fowl with white sauce, a saddle of tenderest mutton, and various sweets over which Manasseh had thrown the elegant flourishes of his art. The wine came from the Rhone valley a Hermitage of the Collector's own shipment.
"To tell you the truth, Captain Vyell, you put me in a quandary. I do not like to refuse you " Here he glanced right and left. "But it can't be done," snapped Mr. Trask. Mr. Wapshott, sitting just beyond, shook his head gently and as he hoped unperceived by the Collector. "You see, sir," explained Mr. Bellingham with a sigh, "we sit here to administer justice without fear or favour.
Had it occurred to Oliver Vyell in later life to set down his "Reflections" in the style of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, he might have begun them in some such words as these: "From my mother, Lady Jane Vyell, I learned to be proud of good birth, to esteem myself a gentleman, and to regulate my actions by a code proper to my station in life.
Parson Jack shook his head; he had never asked a penny from Sir Harry Vyell, who was a notorious Gallio in all that concerned religion. He had a further reason, too.
Difficulties in the text of their authors they postponed until the evening, and worked them out at home, after supper, with the help of grammar and dictionary. The boy was not unhappy, on the whole; though for weeks together he longed for sight of George Vyell, who seemed to have vanished into space, or into that limbo where his childhood lay like a toy in a lumber room.
Silk explained that he had ridden over from Natchett to call on Miss Josselin and had but an hour to spare. They insisted, however, that he must eat before leaving, and they led away his horse to bait, leaving him and Ruth together. "Will you come into the house?" she asked. "With your leave we can talk better here. . . . So you guessed that I made one of the party? Miss Vyell told me."
'A son's a son, you said, 'though he was your man." "Did I say that?" Lizzie seemed to muse over the words. "You have suffered?" she asked. "Yes, I have suffered." "Ah, if I thought so! ... But you have not. You are a hypocrite, Mrs. Vyell; and you are trying to cheat me now.
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