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She knew now that Penny had refused Ralph solely on her account so that she might not be left alone. If she could go to her and tell her that she herself was about to marry Trenby, then the only obstacle which stood in the way of Penelope's happiness would be removed.
"But it's very bad luck on the fox. I wouldn't mind so much if he had fair play. But even if he succeeds in getting away from you beating you, in fact and runs to earth, you proceed to dig him out. I call that mean." Trenby was silent again for a moment. Then he asked suddenly: "What would you do if your husband hunted?"
"There is no power in any mortal's curse that prayer cannot wither. Keep it to yourself you, who believe in it. As for me " "As for you, I will give you some advice. When the new minister is placed, go and tell him what Liot Borson told you at his death-hour. For I know well he did not die without boasting of his revenge on Bele Trenby.
Sometimes Liot sat with dry eyes, listening to Karen's sweet hopes of their reunion; sometimes he laid his head upon her pillow and wept such tears as leave life ever afterward dry at its source. And the root of this bitterness was Bele Trenby.
I will see the minister, and he will call our names in the kirk next Sunday, and the next day we shall be married, and then there will be an end to this trouble. I say nothing of Matilda Sabiston, but Bele Trenby stirs up bickerings all day long; he is a low, quarrelsome fellow, a very son of Satan, walking about the world tempting good men to sin."
She was relying tremendously on Peter's visit to restore Nan to normal, and to prevent her from making the big mistake of marrying Roger Trenby, so that the lukewarm reception accorded to her news gave her a qualm of apprehension lest his advent might not accomplish all she hoped. "Of course I'm pleased!"
You see, Trenby, this ghastly accident of yours makes a difference in " Roger interrupted with a snarl. His arms waved convulsively. "Lift me up," he commanded. "I can't do it myself. Prop me up a bit against the pillows. . . . Oh, get on with it, man!" he cried, as Barry hesitated. "Nothing you do can either help or hurt me. Lift me up!"
And your coming down to Mallow will rather ease things." "Ease things? What things?" "Your meeting with Lady Gertrude, for one. You may have forgotten though you can be sure she hasn't! that you left Trenby Hall rather unceremoniously! And then your illness immediately afterwards prevented your making your peace with her." Nan's face changed. The light seemed to die out of her eyes.
Nan was rather silent as the Fentons' big car purred its way through the crowded streets towards Westminster. For the moment the possible consequences of her flight from Trenby Hall had been thrust aside into a corner of her mind and her thoughts had slipped back to that last meeting with Maryon, when she had shown him so unmistakably that she, at least, had ceased to care.
Trenby took everything quite literally the obvious surface meaning of the words, and the delicate nuances of speech, the significant inflections interwoven with it, meant about as much to him as the frail Venetian glass, the dainty porcelain figures of old Bristol or Chelsea ware, would mean to the proverbial bull in a china-shop.
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