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By this time they had walked gently back to the carriage, and now Mrs. Warrener and her daughter made their appearance. The elder woman noticed something strange about Violet's expression, but she did not speak of it, for surely the girl was happy enough? She was, indeed, quite merry. She told Mrs. Warrener she was ready to go with them to the Highlands whenever they chose.
Colonel Warrener said, as the little party sat down on the stairs and waited for a renewal of the attack. "I don't like that shield," Major Dunlop remarked; "it shows that there is some more than usually intelligent scoundrel among them, and he will be up to some new trick." An hour passed, and then there was a noise on the stairs, and the shield was again seen approaching.
Do you think they are real?" Colonel Warrener took one or two articles from the flashing heap of diamonds, emeralds, rubies, opals, and pearls. "I should say so," he said; "some of them are certainly. But have you any idea what these are worth?" "Not the least in the world," Ned said; "if they are real, though, I suppose they are worth some thousands of pounds."
"Quite sure," the boys answered together; "but the house " "Let us gallop on," Major Warrener said, catching the fear which was expressed in each of his sons' faces. Five minutes' riding, and they drew up their horses with a cry of dismay. A large patch of wood ashes marked the spot where the house had stood.
They were now the recognized lovers of Kate and Rose; and although, in those days of tremendous anxiety and peril, no formal engagements were entered upon, the young people understood each other, and Major Warrener gave his tacit approval.
For years I hoped my time would come, but the opportunity was provokingly delayed. How should you feel if Mrs. Warrener should show you all her things but the great Botticelli?" I nodded understandingly. Mrs. Warrener, for a two minutes' delay in an appointment, had debarred me her Whistlers for a year. "That's the way Mantovani treated me," Anitchkoff continued.
Warrener with a malicious smile, "if a certain young lady I know were to be ill in crossing, she would be a good deal more civil to her native country when she reached the other side." But in good truth, when they got down to Portsea there was a pretty stiff breeze blowing; and the walk out on the long pier was not a little trying to an invalid who had but lately recovered the use of his limbs.
He was impatient of all reproof now, and would listen to no talk; but Nellie was years her junior, more years than she would admit except at such times as these, when she meant to admonish; and Nellie had to take it. Two weeks after their arrival at Warrener the burden of Mrs. Rayner's song morn, noon, and night was, "What would Mr. Van Antwerp say if he could but see this or hear that?"
Warrener and Amy surely cannot mean to come to the wedding in black." "Surely not, Violet. But come, dear, to your breakfast." She took her place quite calmly and humbly; but her mind was still wandering toward that picture.
At the end of the day's journey they halted in front of a great mosque- like building with a dome, the tomb of some long dead prince. The doors stood open, and Colonel Warrener proposed that they should take up their quarters for the night in the lofty interior instead of sleeping in the night air, for although the temperature was still high, the night dews were the reverse of pleasant.
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