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Updated: June 10, 2025
Colonel Honnor so ably handled the protecting troops, that he kept the enemy at bay for some time. In about half an hour, however, after the first shots had been fired, the Persian cavalry advanced in great numbers, and the entire force was enveloped in a skirmishing fire.
He could not help acknowledging to himself that Miss Honnor Cunyngham and Lord Rockminster formed a remarkably handsome couple as they sat together there on a couch at right angles with the fireplace; but the distinguished appearance of the audience did not console him for the consciousness that the performers were making themselves absurd. He was impatient, ashamed, of the whole affair.
So, you see, there will probably be no questions asked; but, if there should be, you have what is quite enough of an explanation." "Well, Miss Honnor," said he, "I never heard of such a friendly act in all my life such a gratuitous sacrifice; here you have risked getting your death of cold in order to save my childish vanity from being wounded.
"Oh, ay, if there's a chance at ahl Miss Honnor will be out," said Roderick, and he added, with a demure smile, "even if the chentlemen will be for staying at home." However, Lionel had soon to consider his own attitude towards this swollen stream, when it became necessary to ford it on the hither side of the Bad Step.
Had he not been more fortunate than he could have hoped for? He had met Miss Honnor and her mother in the morning, and had been with them all the way down; they had been most kind to him; he had spent the best part of the day with them; they had parted excellent friends; looking back, he could not recall a single word he would have liked unsaid.
Here was a pleasant predicament! "Mr. Moore," she called out, "take the rod and wade in! I daren't give him more line quick, quick, please!" Her entreaty was quite pathetic in its earnestness; but old Robert was less excited. "If Mr. Moore was not here you would be in the watter yourself, Miss Honnor," the old man said, with a smile.
His answer to that was one of this young lady's strangest experiences of the stage: Lionel Moore had suddenly left her, and, indeed, quitted this scene, in which he was supposed to be a chief figure. He walked down the wings until he found himself close to Miss Honnor Cunyngham. "Miss Cunyngham," he said. She turned her eyes somewhat bewildered by the glare of light on the stage.
When he was shown into the drawing-room, he found only one occupant there it was Honnor Cunyngham herself, who was standing by a big portfolio set on a brass stand, and apparently engaged in arranging some large photographs.
A sudden rush down-stream, followed by a wild splashing and thrashing on the surface, was only the first of a series of performances that left Miss Honnor not one single moment of breathing-space.
"Honnor!" called Lady Adela, "Come away at once breakfast is in." So that Lionel had no proper opportunity of thanking the young lady for her friendly counsel and the interest she took in his small affairs.
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