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'You ought not to let such a talent rust, Miss Garston: the vicar must utilise you for our Penny Readings. I was horrified at this notion, and told him very seriously that nothing would induce me to sing on a platform, but that it was not my intention to let it rust, only I had my own ideas how best to utilise it.
Errington of Garston Hall, intended to offer himself for election to the free and independent. He had had a fatiguing day, but scarcely admitted to himself how much more restful a solitary dinner would have been, with a cigar and some keen-edged article or luminous pamphlet in his own comfortable library afterward, than making conversation at Colonel Ormonde's table.
Garston, he said, paying her a compliment at once, as she sat flushed and fanning herself, 'and Ursula ought to feel herself very grateful to you for your forbearance and acquiescence in her plan. I do not believe he knew any more than myself where the forbearance had been, but he took it all for granted. 'Nothing puts heart into a person more than feeling sure of one's friends' sympathy.
'I don't question you, do I? Giles says women are dreadfully curious. 'I think you are dreadfully mysterious; but, as you are evidently ashamed of your occupations, I will withdraw my question. 'I do believe you are cross, Miss Garston: you are not a saint, after all, though Giles says you sing like a cherub: I don't know where he ever heard one, but that is his affair.
"Valiant looked up, half sneering, half doubtful, I thought, and rejoined: 'Carbine is a valuable horse, and the fences are stiff in the Garston country. "She smiled gravely, then, with her eyes fixed on her husband, said: 'Carbine is a perfect gentleman. He will do what I ask him. I have ridden him. "'The devil you have! he replied.
Hamilton asked me, in rather a surprised tone, why I had not taken off my hat and jacket, so I ran off to my room in a great hurry. As he opened the door for me, he said, in rather an odd tone, 'Do you know you have not wished me good-morning, Miss Garston? I muttered some sort of an answer, but he merely smiled, and told me not to keep them waiting.
Garston and Teal had had a quarter mile walking race up and down the centre aisle, which had ended, to the great delight of the spectators, in Garston nearly tearing his nightshirt off his back by catching it on a broken bedstead, while the other competitor had kicked his toe against an iron dumb-bell, and finished the race by dancing a one-legged hornpipe in the middle of the course, while his opponent won "hands down."
'It haunts me, Miss Garston, and frightens me somehow. I have been saying it over and over in my dreams, that is what upset me so to-day: "if we will not lie still under His hand," yes, you said that, knowing I have never lain still for a moment, "and if we will not learn the lesson He would fain teach us, it may be that fresh trials may be sent to humble us."
'How very fortunate, she began, seating herself with elaborate caution with her back to the light. 'We hardly hoped to find you at home, Miss Garston. My cousin Giles informed us how much engaged you were. We have been so interested in what Mr. Cunliffe told us about it. It is such a romantic scheme, and, as I am a very romantic person, you may be sure of my sympathy.
I am very much obliged to you, Miss Garston, for offering to nurse Gladys, but there was no need of all this explanation; you might have known, I think, that I was not likely to refuse. He spoke coldly, and his face looked dark and inflexible, but I could see he was watching me.
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