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But, not before the astute lady of the world had contrived to impress me with the consideration that Mrs Clyde moved in a very different circle to that of Mr Lorton; and, that, if I had the assurance and audacity to aspire to the hand of "her daughter," I need not nurse the sweet belief that she would lend a favourable ear to my suit.
It was not quite easy to speak at once. "She liked me at King's Lorton, when she was a little girl, because I used to sit with her brother a great deal when he had hurt his foot. She had kept that in her memory, and thought of me as a friend of a long while ago. She didn't think of me as a lover when she met me." "Well, but you made love to her at last.
His words encouraged me: and, my face imperceptibly brightened. "Ah, ha! dat is bettaire," he said "I likes you, Meestaire Lorton; and it does me pain to sees you at deespair like dese! Cheer oop; and all will be raite, as our good friend, ze vicaire, all-ways tells to us. We will go and sees him now!"
This room seemed to bring back to me a host of old recollections; and, each moment, I was expecting to see the ghost of "Old Jack," my head instructor at Queen's College School in days of yore, and hear him exclaiming in his well-remembered stentorian tones "Boy Lorton you are detained for inattention!
I may be singular in the fancy, but, do you know, I prefer civil words to be accompanied with civil deeds, and contrariwise: the "poison of asps" does not go well with honied accents! "Pray take a seat, Mr Lorton," said Mrs Clyde. "I was expecting you to call; and waited in, on purpose not to miss seeing you.
"I don't feel at all as Tom does on that subject," said Maggie, rising and going to the window as if she wanted to see more of the landscape. "I've always liked Philip Wakem ever since I was a little girl, and saw him at Lorton. He was so good when Tom hurt his foot." "Oh, I'm so glad!" said Lucy. "Then you won't mind his coming sometimes, and we can have much more music than we could without him.
I knew what sundry kindly-natured persons would say, in the event of my returning to England empty-handed, were I to lead the steadiest life possible. "Here is Frank Lorton back again like a bad penny!" they would sneer. "Reformed from all his wild ways, eh? Really, Mrs Grundy, you must not expect us to believe that!
"Very well, Mr Lorton," she said, "I accept your proviso; but, when you make your fortune it will be time enough to talk about it!
Lorton, I asshaw you I only meant to say ah that Miss Clyde sang my songs most divinely ah and that she's ah a vewy nice gahl ah!" Confound him! What business had he to say or think anything of the sort? I could faintly hear his voice exclaim "Bai-ey Je-ove!" in the distance, after some seconds' interval, during which we had become widely separated.
I will diligently try to deserve it; and you will never regret it, you may be assured." "I cannot give it, Mr Lorton," she replied in a decisive way. "And if you meet my daughter again, you must promise me that it shall be only as a friend." "And, what if I refuse to do so?" I said defiantly. "I should leave the neighbourhood," she said promptly.
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