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Something of the truth leaked out, you comprehend nothing provable, thank God! but while I lay abed Captain Audaine was calling daily to inquire when would my wound be healed sufficiently for me to have my throat cut. I found England unsalubrious, and vanished." Ormskirk nodded his approval. "I have always esteemed your common-sense.
Ormskirk Emerald's head was of good length and well balanced, the skull sufficiently flat; his eye was almond-shaped and dark-brown in colour, his expression keen and wise, entirely free from the soft look which we see on many of the faces to-day.
"I beg your pardon?" said the Duke. " that it disfigured him dreadfully," said she, with firmness. She had colored. His Grace of Ormskirk was moved to mirth. "Child, child, you are so deliciously young it appears a monstrous crime to marry you to an old fellow like me!" He took her firm, soft hand in his. "Are you quite sure you can endure me, Marian?"
And Dorothy will get over it in time, as one gets over everything in time. But I wish it were not necessary, sweetheart. "I wish.... I wish that I were not so happy when I think of you. I become so happy that I grow afraid. It is not right that anyone should be so happy. "Bah! I am probably falling into my dotage." Ormskirk struck upon the gong. "And now, Mr. Langton, let us get back to business."
I comprehend that you cannot with agreeability marry an Englishwoman. You are too much the personage. Possessing, as you notoriously possess, your pick among the women of gentle degree for none of them would her guardians nor her good taste permit to refuse the great Duke of Ormskirk, any choice must therefore be a too robustious affrontment to all the others.
"I had in mind," said the other, "my sister, the Demoiselle Claire de Puysange, " It was a day of courtesy when the minor graces were paramount. Ormskirk rose and accorded de Puysange a salutation fitted to an emperor. "I entreat your pardon, sir, for any gaucherie of which I may have been guilty, and desire to extend to you my appreciation of the honor you have done me."
The Prior smiled quietly at the thought of the sturdy, dirty-faced boy working among crucibles and retorts. However, he only said: "Do you think of undertaking his education yourself?" "By no means," Mr. Ormskirk said, hastily.
What Vanringham carried was a petition from some two hundred Scotch and English gentlemen that our gracious Prince Charlie be pleased to come over and take back his own from the Elector. 'Twas rebellion, flat rebellion, and the very highest treason! Had Ormskirk seen the paper, within a month our heads had all been blackening over Temple Bar.
Ay, in spite of reason, my Lord Duke, restore to me these papers unread, that I may destroy them. For otherwise, I swear to you that without gain to yourself without gain, O God! you wreck alike the happiness of an innocent woman and of an honest gentleman. And otherwise O infatuate!" she wailed, and wrung impotent hands. But Ormskirk shook his head. "I cannot leap in the dark."
He possesses the same too-perfect complexion, his blue eyes have the same spick-and-span vacuity; and the fact that the right orb is a trifle larger than its fellow gives his countenance, in repose, much the same expression of placid astonishment.... Very plump, very sleepy-looking, immaculate as a cat, you would never have accorded him a second glance: covert whisperings that the stout gentleman yonder is the great Duke of Ormskirk have, I think, taxed human belief more than once during these ten years past."
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