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Or how had it happened that, though his heart was Daphne's, and hers alone, he had felt wounded and insulted when his Bias, who was leaning over the railing of the deck yonder, gazing at the glittering waves, had informed him that Ledscha had been accompanied in her flight from her unloved husband by the Gaul whose life he, Hermon, had saved?
"And yet," said Barnes, with emphasis, addressing the English barrister, "by the law of England I am still Daphne's husband and that child's legal guardian?" "Certainly." "And if I could once get her upon ground under the English flag, she would be mine again, and no power could take her from me?" "Except the same private violence that you yourself propose to exercise."
But there was no doubt something in Daphne's personality which made life beside her too full of colour to be lightly abandoned. Daphne presently went upstairs to take off her walking-dress, and Mrs. Phillips, with a rather troubled face, began to tidy the confusion of letters she had left behind her. "I dare say the girls won't mind," said Madeleine Verrier, kindly. Mrs.
"Not to dinner. I will come down for an hour afterwards." He went away, and before he had reached his own room, and while the heat of his sudden passion still possessed him, it occurred to him that Daphne's behaviour might after all prove a godsend. That night he would make his search, with no risk of disturbing his wife. The dinner in the newly decorated dining-room went heavily.
He grasped my hand hard. "You don't mean to say so!" he cried. "Well, that's really very, kind of her! A girl of Daphne's high type! And I, who feel myself so utterly unworthy of her!" "We are all unworthy of a good woman's love," I answered. "But, thank Heaven, the good women don't seem to realise it." That evening, about ten, my new friend came back in a hurry to my rooms at St. Nathaniel's.
Austin grasped his hand, and together they issued out of Daphne's Bower, in the direction of Lobourne. Farmer Blaize was not so astonished at the visit of Richard Feverel as that young gentleman expected him to be.
When a boat which belonged to Daphne's galley was finally given to him, the Biamite girl was no longer at the place appointed for the meeting. Hoping to find her on the Owl's Nest with old Tabus, he then landed there, but had been so uncivilly rebuffed on the shore by a rough fellow that he might be glad to have escaped with sound limbs.
Stupid he might be in the sense that it was of no use to expect from him the kind of talk on books, pictures, and first principles which prevailed in Daphne's circle. But Mrs. Verrier thought she had seldom come across a finer sense of tactics than young Barnes had so far displayed in his dealings with Daphne. If he went on as he had begun, the probability was that he would succeed.
Whereupon Roger lost his temper still more decidedly, refusing to give any account of himself, and the drive passed in a continuous quarrel, which only just stopped short, on Daphne's side, of those outrageous and insulting things which were burning at the back of her tongue, while she could not as yet bring herself to say them. An unsatisfactory peace was patched up during the evening.
And Gyp sat looking up at the apparition of her husband. She could just see his eyes straining after that flying nymph. Miss Daphne's faun! Why, even his ears were pointed! Had she never noticed before, how like a faun he was? Yes on her wedding-night! And she said quietly: "Daphne Wing was rehearsing her new dance. So you're back! Why didn't you let me know? Are you all right you look splendid!"
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