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A man with my story is not going to ask your sister to marry him." Philip looked up. Anderson sat composedly erect, the traces of his nights of sleeplessness and revolt marked on every feature, but as much master of himself and his life so Gaddesden intuitively felt as he had ever been.
He lost himself in familiar joy the joy of the Greek itself, of the images of the Greek life. He walked with the Greek ploughman, he smelt the Greek earth, his thoughts caressed the dark oxen under the yoke. These for him had savour and delight; the wide Canadian fields had none. Philip Gaddesden meanwhile could not be induced to leave the car.
Whereupon, with perturbation, Mrs. Gaddesden at last remembered there were other lions in the path. They had not said a single word however conventional of Elizabeth.
Gaddesden who, as Elizabeth had already discovered, was constantly making rather greedy demands upon her father on rations according to her behaviour, to bring in her own poor mother and all her needy relations to reign supreme, in fact, over Mannering and the county nothing would be easier.
And would you please wait for her, and take her to see the place where the emigrants come. She doesn't think Mr. Gaddesden will be down till luncheon-time." Arthur Delaine thanked the speaker for her information, and then sat down in a comfortable corner, Times in hand, to wait for Lady Merton.
'Why, of course girls can't hold their own with older women when the older women are so charming and clever and all that' cried Mrs. Gaddesden, trying desperately to justify herself 'but I've been awfully sorry for Pamela! Very likely it's not your fault you couldn't know, I daresay! 'No, indeed, I didn't know! said Elizabeth, in a low voice, 'and I can't understand now what you mean.
The porter in charge of the cloak-room had run a hostile eye over him as he deposited his bundle. But now no one observed him; while he, gathered up and concentrated, like some old wolf upon a trail, followed every movement of the party entering the Gaddesden car. George Anderson and his French Canadian friend left the platform last.
The irresponsive quiet of the night over the Mannering woods and park, with nothing but the wind for voice, seemed to her unbearable. And it only answered to the apathy within doors. Why, the Squire had scarcely mentioned the war since her return! Neither he nor Mrs. Gaddesden had asked her for an evening paper, though there had been a bad London raid the night before.
Gaddesden before a week was over had become pitifully dependent upon him, simply because Philip was pleased to desire his society, and showed a flicker of cheerfulness whenever he appeared. She was torn indeed between her memory of Elizabeth's sobbing, and her hunger to give Philip the moon out of the sky, should he happen to want it.
And a few minutes afterwards Pamela, passing the open door of the drawing-room, heard him handsomely thanking his elder sisters. He ran into her as he emerged with his arms full of scarves, mittens, and the famous jersey which had taken Alice Gaddesden a year to knit. 'Stuff 'em in somewhere, Pam! he said in her ear.
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