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"Pevensey!" he stammered; "the Earl of Pevensey! the man you are going to marry!" "Dear me, no!" Miss Stapylton answered, with utmost unconcern; "I would sooner marry a toad. Why, didn't you know, Olaf? I thought, of course, you knew you had been introducing athletics and better manners among the peerage! That sounds like a bill in the House of Commons, doesn't it?"
It may conservatively be stated that everyone was surprised. Old Stapylton had half risen, with a purple face. The colonel viewed him with a look of bland interrogation. There was silence for a heart-beat. Then Stapylton lowered his eyes, if just because the laws of caste had triumphed, and in consequence his glance crossed that of his daughter, who sat motionless regarding him.
"So Parkinson has gone the way of Pevensey, . and of I wonder how many others? Well, may Heaven be very gracious to us both!" he said. "For I am going to do it." Then composedly he took up the telephone upon his desk and called Roger Stapylton. "I want you to come at once to Dr. Rabbet's, yes, the rectory, next door to St. Luke's. Patricia and I are to be married there in half an hour.
"They were a rude and barbarous nation, proverbially addicted to piracy and intemperance." "My goodness gracious!" Miss Stapylton observed, and now, for the first time, he saw the teeth that were like grains of rice upon a pink rose petal. Also, he saw dimples. "And does one mean all that by a viking?"
Patricia was allowed to see no word of it until the first ten copies had come from the printer's, very splendid in green "art-vellum" and stamped with the Stapylton coat-of-arms in gold. She read the book. "It is perfectly superb," was her verdict. "It is as dear as remembered kisses after death and as sweet as a plaintiff in a breach-of-promise suit.
He had obliged the country gentlemen of England, and ensured the return, at the next election, of Lord Mounteney's brother for the county. At this general election, also, Stapylton Toad's purpose in entering the House became rather more manifest; for it was found, to the surprise of the whole country, that there was scarcely a place in England; county, town, or borough; in which Mr.
In fact, the matter had been settled; and Colonel Musgrave had received from Roger Stapylton an exuberantly granted charter of courtship. This befell, indeed, upon a red letter day in Roger Stapylton's life.
But confound it, sir, the boy's a fool! Now I put it to you fairly, ain't he a fool?" said Mr. Stapylton. "Upon my word, sir, if his folly has no other proof than an adoration of your daughter," the colonel protested, "I must in self-defense beg leave to differ with you." Yes, that was it undoubtedly.
Indisputably the man was well-to-do already; and from this nightmarish topsy-turvidom of Reconstruction the fellow visibly was plucking wealth. Also young Stapylton was well enough to look at, too, as Lichfield flurriedly conceded.
"Yes," he said, wearily, "it is too late now." Thereupon Miss Stapylton tossed her head. "Oh, very well!" said she; "only, for my part, I think you acted very foolishly, and I don't see that you have the least right to complain.
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