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Bellair would not be a suitable friend for Winifred or or for any young married woman." "Mother!" Elwyn only uttered the one word, but anger, shame, and self-reproach were struggling in the tone in which he uttered that one word. "You are wrong, indeed, you are quite wrong I mean about Fanny Bellair." "My dear," she said gently, but her voice quivered, "I do not think I am wrong.
'Lord Valentine tells me that you are going to realise my dream of dreams, that you are going to Jerusalem. 'Ah! said Tancred, kindling, 'you too have felt that want? 'But I never can pardon myself for not having satisfied it, said Lady Bertie and Bellair in a mournful tone, and looking in his face with her beautiful dark eyes. 'It is the mistake of my life, and now can never be remedied.
I suppose he is in the secret too. 'Really, Lady Bellair, I am in no secret. You quite excite my curiosity. 'Well, I can't get anything out of you, I see that. However, it all happened at my house, that can't be denied. I tell you what I will do; I will give you all a dinner, and then the world will be quite certain that I made the match.
"Something different?" repeated the visitor, reverting to Average Jones' last observation. "Well, yes; I think so. Where is Bellair Street?" "Ask a directory. How should I know?" retorted the other lazily. "Sounds like old Greenwich Village."
A little anxious lest Florimel might have wanted him, for it was now past the hour at which he usually waited her orders, he learned to his relief that she was gone shopping with Lady Bellair, upon which he set out for the hospital, whither they had carried the man Kelpie had so terribly mauled.
"You will give me your confidence, then?" "Yes." "Am I to hear a complete history of all that has happened thus far from Mrs. Girard?" "Yes." "And, after hearing it, may I communicate with you?" She glanced up in surprise. "Or," continued he; "better still, may I come down to Bellair and talk things over with you, should I deem it advisable?" "If you wish;" looking glad.
Once more, I pray you to give up this man; to let your true self speak and send him away." "Sir, I go with my Lady Bellair, driven from her father's house by one who calls himself my brother. My lawyer shall make inquiries." She would have left the room, but he intercepted her. "Florimel," he said, "you are casting the pearl of your womanhood before a swine.
He would join her shortly, and proceed with her to Bellair, in his character of brother; see her comfortably settled, and leave her to her new undertaking. And thus it was that in the gray of morning a veiled lady, sweet-voiced and elegant in manner, stepped from a close carriage at a little wayside station, and sped away at the heels of the iron horse.
It was a long way for her to come, she said, and Lady Bellair knew what sort of a place it was; but there was nobody in London now, and if she had nothing more enticing on her tablets, &c., &c. She ended with begging her, if she was mercifully inclined to make her happy with her presence, to bring to her Caley and her hound Demon. She had hardly finished when Malcolm presented himself.
'Have you seen him? enquired Lady Bellair, eagerly. 'Not yet, replied the gentleman. 'Well, then, you will see him to-night, said Lady Bellair, with an air of triumph. 'He is coming to me to-night. Ferdinand rose, and was about to depart. 'You must not go without seeing my squirrel, said her ladyship, 'that my dear funny grandson gave me: he is such a funny boy.
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