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This Wyvis of yours, contessa, has no doubt discovered that I have had many friends among his brethren, so that there is nothing strange in his making so much of me."
"A strain inherited from my ploughman father, I suppose," said Wyvis, rather grimly. "And you got into scrapes innumerable; for which he liked you all the better. And you well you know, old boy, you were never a reproach to him, as the sight of me was!" Cuthbert's voice dropped.
"So Wyvis has been shot?" I said, abruptly. She gave a slight shudder. "Oh, yes; is it not sad? But I was compelled to have it done. Yesterday I went past his kennel within reach of his chain, and he sprung furiously at me for no reason at all. See!" And holding up her small hand she showed me three trifling marks in the delicate flesh.
"Not altogether, because Wyvis had a strong head, and drew back in time; but his father did him harm untold harm. His father was a bad man. I do not scruple to say so, although he was my husband; and there is a taint, a sort of wild strain, in the blood. Even the boy inherits it; I see that too clearly. And Wyvis Wyvis will not hold himself in for long.
They did not betray her, and Wyvis scarcely listened to what she said. He broke into a short, harsh laugh, more hideous than a sob. "Are not all women like her?" he said. "Then they are worse. She was innocent, at any rate, if she was weak.
"And pray where is your mother?" "Gone back again. She told me to find my father. Are you my father?" said the child, with the utmost fearlessness. "What is your name?" asked Wyvis, utterly disregarding the question. "Julian Wyvis Brand." "He's got the name pat enough," said Wyvis, with a sardonic laugh. "Well, where did you live in Paris? What sort of a house had you?"
And when Janetta tried to soothe her, and said that she must now make haste to be well and strong when Wyvis was returning, she answered only in about the self-same words "never thought it, my dear, indeed, I never did. But if he is coming back, so soon, I must be quick I must be very quick." And Janetta could not persuade her to say why. It was the night before Wyvis' return.
"Indeed, I would not have come if there had been any other way of letting Wyvis know. They made me promise not to write to him, not to meet him in the wood where we met before you know, and they watched me, so that I could not get out, or send a message or anything. It has been like living in prison during the last few days."
I own I was aggravating own in your turn that you were tyrannical now and then! You witness that he owns up, Janetta why, the girl's gone! Never mind: give me a kiss now we are alone, Wyvis, and take me to the Riviera to-morrow if you want to save my life." Wyvis kissed his wife and promised to do what she asked him, but he did not look as if he expected to have an easy task.
And is is your father with you?" "I am here, mother," Wyvis answered. He could say nothing more. "But your father " Then something a gleam of reawakening memory seemed to trouble her; she looked round the room, knitted her brows anxiously, and murmured a few words that Wyvis could not hear. "I remember now," she said, in a stronger voice.
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