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And he broke open the seal of the missive presented to him, and adjusted his gold-rimmed spectacles to read its contents. "Eh what's this what's this? God bless my soul!" And his round eyes protruded in astonishment and dismay "Look here! I say really! You'd better read this, my lord! God bless my soul! She's bolted!" Roxmouth started violently. Mr.
Her sensitive nature was keenly alive to every slight impression of kindness or of coldness; and the intense longing for love, which had been the pulse of her inmost being since her earliest infancy, and which had filled her with such passionate devotion to her father that her grief at his loss had been almost abnormally profound and despairing, made her feel poignantly every little incident which emphasised, or seemed to emphasise, her own utter loneliness in the world; and she was just now strung up to such a nervous tension, that she would almost have consented to wed Lord Roxmouth if by so doing she could have saved any possible mischief occurring to John Walden through Roxmouth's malignancy.
"And sly!" said Miss Tabitha, finishing his sentence for him, "Very sly! The first time I ever saw Miss Vancourt I knew she was deceitful! Her very look expresses it!" "I'm afraid," murmured Roxmouth, and then hesitating a moment, he raised his eyes with an affectation of great frankness "I'm really afraid you may be right, Miss Tabitha!
She had already, during the last few days, been at some trouble to decipher various telegrams which the lady of the Manor had sent down by Primmins for immediate despatch, such as one to a certain Lord Roxmouth which had run as follows: "No time to reply to your letter. In love with pigs and poultry."
"I think I have a friend of yours here to-day, my dear lady!" he said with an expressive chuckle "Someone who is most anxious to see you!" And escorting her with obtrusive gallantry into the hall, he brought her face to face with a tall, elegant, languid-looking man who bowed profoundly; "I believe you know Lord Roxmouth?"
And I am really very glad it is so. No one can spread calumnies about me, or compromise my name any more. And even the harm Lord Roxmouth meant to try and do to YOU, has been stopped. So this time God HAS answered my prayers." John looked up suddenly.
"And there's other news for you this morning" pursued Cicely, a broad smile lighting up her face and eyes "Very amusing news! Lord Roxmouth is married!" "Married!" exclaimed Walden, incredulously "Not possible!"
He had felt a little ailing of late 'the oncoming of age and infirmity, he told himself, and he looked slightly more careworn. The strong restraint he had imposed upon himself since he knew the nature of the scandal started by Lord Roxmouth, and the loyal and strict silence he had maintained on the subject that was nearest and dearest to his own heart, had been very trying to him.
"Why can they not leave me alone!" she thought passionately "How dare they follow me to my own home! my own lands! and spy upon me in everything I do! It is a positive persecution and more than that, it is a wicked design on Aunt Emily's part to compromise me with Roxmouth.
"Upon my word, a very quaint little comedy!" said a coldly mocking voice behind her "A modern Juliet gazing pathetically after the retiring form of a somewhat elderly clerical Romeo! Let me congratulate you, Miss Maryllia, on your newest and most brilliant achievement, the conquest of a country parson! It is quite worthy of you!" And turning, she confronted Lord Roxmouth.
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