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She had a good many cousins, among whom were several beardless undergraduates and callow subalterns in smart regiments, who would think it no end of fun to scare 'Cousin Maud. There was no mistaking the official paper on which the document was written, and it bore the seal of the Chancery of the Russian Embassy; but in Lady Maud's opinion the mention of the Patriarch of Constantinople stamped it as an egregious hoax.
"Why you call dis fader, when dat fader. Nick know fader and moder. Major no broder." Notwithstanding the sensations that nearly pressed her to the earth, the tell-tale blood rushed to Maud's cheeks, again, at this allusion, and she bowed her face to her knees.
Lady Caroline, who was no devotee of the royal and ancient game, interrupted the recital. "Never mind what you did this morning. What did you do yesterday afternoon?" "Yes," said Lord Belpher. "Where were you yesterday afternoon?" Maud's gaze was the gaze of a young child who has never even attempted to put anything over in all its little life. "Whatever do you mean?"
I held fast by the tall back of my heavy chair to save me from falling, on my knees; but a firm hand thrust it aside, and I was clasped in a pair of old yet strong arms to a faithful heart, and when I heard Cousin Maud's voice in mine ear, though half-choked with tears, crying: "My poor, poor, dear good Margery!" meseemed that somewhat melted in my heart and gushed up to my eyes; and albeit none had told me, yet knew I of a certainty that I was a widow or ever I was a wife, and that Cousin Maud's tears and my own were shed, not for Herdegen, but for him, for him....
There came to me across the years Maud's announcement of their ejection from the Beacon, and dimly, confusedly the same explanation was in the air. This time however I had been on my guard; I had had my suspicion. "He has made it too flippant?" I found breath after an instant to inquire. Mrs. Highmore's vacuity exceeded my own. "Too 'flippant'? He has made it too oracular. Mr.
Aunt Maud's own face for that matter met the enquiry with a consciousness in which he saw a reflexion of events.
He groped for it blindly. "Hello!" he said. "Don't say 'Hello! It sounds so abrupt!" "What did you say then?" "I said 'Don't say Hello!" "No, before that! Before that! You said something about getting married." "Well, aren't we going to get married? Our engagement is announced in the Morning Post." "But But " "George!" Maud's voice shook.
Then we'll bring 'em here an' Maudie can give 'em all she has. But first" her little sharp eyes rested discontentedly upon Genevieve Maud's family six dolls reposing in a blissful row in a pansy-bed "first we mus' remove those pomps an' vanerties." Grace gasped. "Take away the dolls?" she ejaculated, dizzily. "No, not edzactly. Jus' take off all their clothes.
"Well, when she came to Maud, at Maud's home, in the North, she was still in agony about Mingo, who'd been recaptured. So Maud wrote South, to her aunt, who wrote back: 'Yes, he had been brought home, and at creditor's auction had been sold to a slave-trader to be resold here in New Orleans. So then Sidney begged Maud, who by luck was coming here, to bring her here to find him." "Brave Sidney.
Marischal got up and went off to his own quarters, saying something vaguely about seeing if his letters had gone. "What a touching story!" said Gladys Lloyd. "I am afraid, after all, it has been more painful than he realised for Mr. Marischal to tell it. Did you know anything of Maud's husband, dear Lady Denholme? Was he kind to her? Was she happy?"
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