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I wonder what." Soames took out his watch. "We must go," he said, "if we're to catch our train." "Uncle Soames never misses a train," muttered Val, with his mouth full. "Why should I?" Soames answered simply. "Oh! I don't know," grumbled Val, "other people do." At the front door he gave Holly's slim brown hand a long and surreptitious squeeze.
"All right!" he said. "Done!" Holly's face oh! it was queer! He saw her flush, start forward. He had done the right thing her face was shining with wistful admiration. Jolly stood up and made a little bow as who should say: 'You've passed. "To-morrow, then," he said, "we'll go together."
"Oh!" said Jolly in the Christ Church meadows, "I had to ask that chap Val Dartie to dine with us to-night. He wanted to give you lunch and show you B.N.C., so I thought I'd better; then you needn't go. I don't like him much." Holly's rather sallow face had become suffused with pink. "Why not?" "Oh! I don't know. He seems to me rather showy and bad form. What are his people like, Dad?
Winifred thought that "rather nice," and added comfortably: "Well, Holly's sensible; she'll know how to deal with it. I shan't tell your uncle. It'll only bother him. It's a great comfort to have you back, my dear boy, now that I'm getting on." "Getting on! Why! you're as young as ever. By the way, that chap Profond, Mother, is he all right?" "Prosper Profond! Oh! the most amusing man I know."
Such a plunge could not but be as Val put it an outside chance. There was little to be told from the back view of her young cousin's veil, and Holly's eyes reviewed the general aspect of this Christian wedding. She, who had made a love-match which had been successful, had a horror of unhappy marriages.
But there was certainly no lightness in Brent's manner. His arm dropped and he scowled at the far end of the table as he said, "Now, the blood. There was something strange about the blood " The door from Marcia Holly's reception room-office opened and she came in silently, followed by a white-coated waiter who set a tray on the table.
There's a French family over in West Hinsdale two of 'em, I think. What'll ye bet 't ain't one o' them?" "Very likely," acceded Simeon Holly, his eyes bent disapprovingly on David's face. It was plain to be seen that Simeon Holly's attention was occupied by David, not the woman. "An', say, Mr.
Every one of these calm, bright, lengthening days, with Holly's hand in his, and the dog Balthasar in front looking studiously for what he never found, he would stroll, watching the roses open, fruit budding on the walls, sunlight brightening the oak leaves and saplings in the coppice, watching the water-lily leaves unfold and glisten, and the silvery young corn of the one wheat field; listening to the starlings and skylarks, and the Alderney cows chewing the cud, flicking slow their tufted tails; and every one of these fine days he ached a little from sheer love of it all, feeling perhaps, deep down, that he had not very much longer to enjoy it.
Holly was a sort of satellite, and evidently quite in awe of her superior; but Sylvia regarded her as the very quintescence of laziness, and always delighted to set her at some interminable job. It was much more to Holly's taste to look after the cows and pigs, and wander about the premises, than to wash dishes and peel potatoes; but she dared not resist the cook's authority.
Val Dortie, asking if they knew of a farmer near them on the Downs who would take Jon as an apprentice. Holly's answer had been enthusiastic. There was an excellent man quite close; she and Val would love Jon to live with them. The boy was due to go to-morrow.
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