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"Well, you can't ask her now," he said gently. "Hadn't we better make the best of it?" She scorned to reply. He opened the door for her, and she swept through it. Left to himself, Buntingford gave a great stretch. "That was strenuous!" he said to himself "uncommonly strenuous. How many times a week shall I have to do it? Can't Cynthia Welwyn do anything? I'll go and see Cynthia this afternoon."
Nobody was bold enough to suggest that young Lawton should commence the petition, "To the Most Noble the Marquis of Welwyn, K.C.B., May it please your Lordship," and end it, "And your petitioners will ever pray!" and insert between those phrases a simple appeal for the reprieve, with a statement of reasons. No! the formula consecrated by tradition must be found.
Cynthia Welwyn took but little share in it. She was sitting rather apart from the rest, under a blue parasol which made an attractive combination with her semi-transparent black dress and the bright gold of her hair. In reality, her thoughts were busy with quite other matters than the lady of the yews.
Prosper himself was the stupidest ass! At Welwyn people smelled of the City. At Stevenage the parsons' set began. Baldock was a caput mortuum of dulness. Royston was alive only on market-days. Of his own father's house, and even of his mother and sisters, he entertained ideas that savored a little of depreciation.
Welwyn and his daughters returned for a short time to the country; then left home again to spend the latter part of the autumn and the beginning of the winter in Paris. They took with them excellent letters of introduction, and saw a great deal of the best society in Paris, foreign as well as English.
And I have heard so little of you your mother never seemed to know. When will you come and see me or shall I come to you? I can't stay now, for we were just going; my daughter, Ermyntrude Welwyn, has to take some one to a ball. How strange" she broke off "how very strange that you and he should have met to-night! He goes off to Italy to-morrow, you know, with Lord Maxwell."
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