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With your leave, which is the more symbolical?" "You are a reprobate man, Captain Vyell," was the answer, "and I have no relish for your talk. I will only say this, When her punishment is done, my cart shall be ready for her; and you, if you would vindicate an action which for I'll give you that credit sprang from a generous impulse, will go your ways and let this child live down her humiliation."
One can never be sure of the canaille." "What does that mean?" Captain Vyell explained. The canaille, he said, were the common folk, whose part in this world was to be ruled. Dick perpended. He found this exceedingly interesting the more so because it came, though in a curiously different way, to much the same as Miss Quiney had taught him out of the catechism.
Miss Quiney wishes to communicate to you some news I have had the honour to bring in a letter from Captain Vyell or, as we must now call him, Sir Oliver." "Sir Oliver?" echoed Ruth, not understanding at all.
Sir Harry laughed outright; and after a moment Parson Jack laughed too he could not help it. But Clement Vyell frowned, having no sense of humour. "I patch it up, you know after a fashion." Parson Jack's tone was humble enough and propitiatory; nevertheless, he glanced at his handiwork with something like pride. "The windows, for instance " The younger man turned with a shudder.
We're Vyells. And here's my point Oliver is a Vyell. He may be strong-willed, but did mamma happen to talk at all about the 'Family'?" "I think," answered Ruth with another faint flash of mirth, "it was I who asked her questions about it." Diana threw out her hands, laughing. "You are invincible! Well, I cannot hate you; and I've given you my warning.
To lose everything " She paused again. "You make it more alluring, somehow, than the prospect of endless London seasons Diana Vyell, with a fading face and her market missed that's how they'll put it and, pour me distraire this side of the grave, the dower-house, a coach, a pair of wind-broken horses, and the consolations of religion! If we were capable of it. . . . But where's the use of talking?
"Is that how Captain Vyell how your husband feels it? No, please keep looking towards the gate. I mean no harm by these questions, and you will not mind answering them, I hope? It gives me just a little more chance of fair play." "To tell you the truth," said Mrs. Harry, pretending to study the jump, "I looked at you because I could not help it. You are an extraordinarily beautiful woman."
She held the boy at arm's length, lovingly as Captain Hanmer came and stood by the tent door. So life might yet sound with honest laughter; ay, and at the back of laughter, with the firm tread of duty. The story of Ruth Josselin and Oliver Vyell is told.
Nevertheless it appeared certain that Captain Vyell had a right to be tried and punished; and the Clerk's threat to set down the hearing for an adjourned sessions was promptly countered by the culprit's producing His Majesty's Commission, which enjoined upon all and sundry "to observe the welfare of my faithful subject, Oliver John Dinham de Courcy Vyell, now travelling on the business of this my Realm, and to further that business with all zeal and expedition as required by him" a command which might be all the more strictly construed for being loosely worded.
Away to the left in the wintry sunshine a speck of scarlet caught his eye against the blue-grey of the towans. He watched it as it came slowly towards him, and his heart leapt yet not quite as he had expected it to leap. For it was George Vyell. George had lately been promoted to "pink" and made a gallant figure on his strapping grey hunter.
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