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Lady Bellair had uttered no bad words in her hearing: had softened to decency every story that required it; had not unfrequently tacked a worldly wise moral to the end of one; and yet, and yet, such had been the tone of her telling, such the allotment of laughter and lamentation, such the acceptance of things as necessary, and such the repudiation of things as Quixotic, puritanical, impossible, that the girl's natural notions of the lovely and the clean had got dismally shaken and confused.
Temple entered the breakfast-room one morning, with an open note in his hand, and told Henrietta to prepare for visitors, as her old friend, Lady Bellair, had written to apprise him of her intention to rest the night at Ducie, on her way to the North. 'She brings with her also the most charming woman in the world, added Mr. Temple, with a smile.
It was, she knew, a precious privilege to know a poet, and to see the natural and spiritual worlds through his discerning eyes. It would have seemed to her wonderful to be a poet herself. Ruth Bellair, waiting in unconscious sovereignty for Jerry to seek her out and lay lilies at her feet, was, she knew, the happiest woman in the spring world.
Her soul assured her of it. "To my sister," answered Malcolm, "I will give all the proof she may please to require to Lord Liftore I will not even repeat my assertion: to him I will give no shadow of proof. I will but cast him out of my house. Stoat, order horses for Lady Bellair." "Gien ye please, sir, my lord," replied Stoat, "the Lossie Airms' horses is ordered a'ready for Lady Clementina."
When Malcolm took Kelpie to her stall the night of the arrival of Lady Bellair and her nephew, he was rushed upon by Demon, and nearly prostrated between his immoderate welcome and the startled rearing of the mare. The hound had arrived a couple of hours before, while Malcolm was out.
Lord Montfort, who had arrived before the Temples, approached the ottoman. 'Is the duchess here? enquired Henrietta, as she shook hands with him. 'And Isabella, he replied. Henrietta rose, and taking his arm, bid adieu to Lady Bellair. 'God bless you, said her ladyship, with great emphasis. 'I will not have you speak to that odious Mrs. Floyd, mind.
"It is impossible," said Bellair. "Without previous knowledge, one could not tell them from droves of bullocks and goats going to market at Saint Marc." "Except for their caps," said Euphrosyne. "I see a dozen or two of feathers through the crowd. Do not you, Afra?" "Yes, but where is their music? We should hear something of it here, surely."
She listened with the liveliest concern to his account of all his progress; she even made many admirable suggestions, for Lady Bertie and Bellair had been a frequent visitor at Cowes, and was quite initiated in the mysteries of the dilettante service of the Yacht Club. She was a capital sailor; at least she always told Tancred so.
When at last he has ceased to struggle, because resistance is so utterly useless, he turns his now glaring eyes upon the brave girl whose life he had sought to wreck, and hisses: "Don't forget to mention how you first came to the conclusion that I had wronged you! Don't forget to state that you ran away from Bellair with me; that you lodged in my bachelor quarters; that "
Torrance had now been an inmate of Bellair House some days, and she certainly had no reason to complain that her present outlook was not all that could be desired.
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