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Shall I stop and persuade him to go back home to bed?" "Oh no," said Mabyn, who was all for getting on at any risk. "Oh no," Wenna said, fearing the result of an encounter between the two men. "I must stop," Trelyon said. "It's such precious hard lines on him. I shall easily persuade him that he would be better at home."
She felt all over the dark ground for it, but her search was in vain. "Well, here's a nice thing! Upon my " "Mabyn!" "Upon my trotting pony: that was all I was going to say. Wenna, will you stay here for a minute, and I'll run down to the foot of the hill and get a match?" "How can you get a match at the foot of the hill? You'll have to go on to the inn.
"Lord and Lady Amersham have already come to the Hall." "Oh, indeed!" "Yes. They said some time ago that there was a good chance of Mr. Trelyon marrying the daughter the tall girl with yellow hair, you remember?" "And the stooping shoulders? Yes. I should think they would be glad to get her married to anybody. She's thirty." "Oh, Wenna!" "Mr. Trelyon told me so," said Wenna sharply.
"She will be very sorry we did not get away altogether," Mabyn answered. "And of course it was Mr. Roscorla who spoiled it. Nobody knew anything about it but himself. He must have run on to the inn and told some one. Wasn't it mean, Wenna? Couldn't he see that he wasn't wanted?" "Are you talking of Mr. Roscorla?" Trelyon said: George Rosewarne was a bit ahead at this moment.
"No, no," said the young girl good-humoredly. "You make Wenna happy, and don't consider me." During the whole glad evening Wenna had been queen of the feast, and her subjects had obeyed her with a joyous submission.
You'd better take your sister's opinion on that point, and don't squabble with me. Mother, what's the use of sitting here? You bring Miss Wenna with you into the wagonette, and talk to her there about all your business-affairs, and I'll take you for a drive. Come along. And of course I want somebody with me: will you come, Mrs. Rosewarne, or will Mabyn? You can't? then Mabyn must.
Trelyon has sent and taken all our spare rooms; and father says Wenna must come back directly, for it's always 'Wenna, do this, and 'Wenna, do that; and if Wenna isn't there, of course the sky will tumble down on the earth Mother, what's the matter, and where's Wenna?" Mabyn was suddenly brought up in the middle of her voluble speech by the strange expression on her mother's face.
Well, it does not matter now: all this must come to an end. Mabyn, I should like to see Mr. Trelyon, if just for one minute." "What will you say to him, Wenna?" her sister said with a sudden fear. "Something that it is necessary to say to him, and the sooner it is over the better."
One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear, When they reached the hall-door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! 'She is won! we are gone over bank, bush and scaur! They'll have fleet steeds that follow, quoth young Lochinvar. That was a lover now!" "I think he was a most impertinent young man," said Wenna.
No sooner had Wenna Rosewarne fled to her own room, there to think over in a wild and bewildered way all that had just happened, than her heart smote her sorely. She had not acted prudently; she had forgotten her self-respect; she ought to have forbidden him to come near her again at least until such time as this foolish fancy of his should have passed away and been forgotten.
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