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DARRELL. " Ay, and still be young enough to catch a butterfly in Lady Adela still be bold enough to chain a panther in Flora Vyvyan. Let the world know your world in each nook of its gaudy auction-mart that Lione: Haughton is no pauper cousin no penniless fortune-hunter. I wish that world to be kind to him while he is yet young, and can enjoy it.
Even his home life was without a cloud. Two stories which he told at this time paint him. One was about his two boys, Vyvyan and Cyril. "Children are sometimes interesting," he began. "The other night I was reading when my wife came and asked me to go upstairs and reprove the elder boy: Cyril, it appeared, would not say his prayers.
I liked it but I never dared to venture on the name." "And since then," said Mr. Gay, "the names of the heroes and heroines in magazine-stories are really astonishing. The favorite letter, now is 'Y. They have 'y's' in the most unexpected places. Such names as 'Vivian' and 'Willis, for instance. They spell them 'Vyvyan' and 'Wyllys'" The meal over, the company dispersed through the woods.
And yet it was not easy, in that stooping figure, with the pale cheek and dimmed eye, to recognise the bright and audacious Vyvyan Bruce, who had been captain of Harton barely three years before. Poverty, ruin, disappointment, confinement, guilt, and sorrow had done their work with marvellous quickness.
Flora turned her back on the Colonel, looking out of the window, and her small foot beating the ground with nervous irritation. "It was given out that Darrell intended to marry again," said Mr. Vyvyan. "A man of that sort requires a very superior highly-educated woman; and if Miss Carr Vipont had been a little more of his age she would have just suited him.
He expected that very likely some party would be going on, and quite looked forward to an agreeable dance. When he arrived, however, Vyvyan House was quite silent; a dim light came from a single window, but that was all. "Sir Rollo and my mother not at home, I suppose," he said to the plushed and powdered footman. "Yes, sir, they're in the library."
He did not return till late in the evening, and continued for some time to spend the days in this manner, seeing next to nothing of his wife and son, but sternly forbidding any festivities or balls. One morning he called Vyvyan into his study before starting. Bruce laid aside his novel, yawned, and followed. "Pray, sir, do you intend to spend all your time in reading novels?" said Sir Rollo.
Was it not possible that he had really felt for one of them a deeper sentiment than a man advanced in years ever likes to own even to his nearest friend hazarded a proposal, and met with a rebuff? If so, Alban conjectured the female culprit by whom the sentiment had been inspired, and the rebuff administered. "That mischievous kitten, Flora Vyvyan," growled the Colonel.
At last the young lady and her satellites shot off, and the Colonel said cautiously, "Miss Vyvyan is alarming." DARRELL. "Alarming! the epithet requires construing." COLONEL MORLEY. "The sort of girl who might make a man of our years really and literally an old fool!" DARRELL. "Old fool such a man must be if girls of any sort are permitted to make him a greater fool than he was before.
The concert was half over; but Flora Vyvyan had still guarded, as she had promised, a seat beside herself for Darrell, by lending it for the present to one of her obedient vassals. Her face brightened as she saw Darrell enter and approach. The vassal surrendered the chair.
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