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Being in good spirits, after a dinner to the ecclesiastics, he said, as soon as his guests had gone speaking in the tone of one who believed he was doing a great thing for me "Mary, matters are not quite settled yet, but you might as well know right here what we're trying to fix up for you." Then he told me. I was to marry the young Lord Raa! I was stunned.
She'll walk over the mistress herself before long mark my word but she will." It would be about a week after our arrival at Castle Raa that Price came to my room to say that a priest was asking for me, and he was such a strange-looking thing that she was puzzled to know if his face was that of a child, a woman or a dear old man.
"At the end of the performance the Lord Bishop, who was present in person and watched every item of the programme with obvious enjoyment, proposed a vote of thanks in his usual felicitous terms, thanking Lord Raa for this further proof of his great liberality of mind in helping a Catholic charity, and particularly mentioning the beautiful and accomplished Madame Lier, who had charmed all eyes and won all hearts by her serpentine dances, and to whom the Church in Ellan would always be indebted for the handsome sum which had been the result of her disinterested efforts in promoting the entertainment.
A few minutes afterwards we sailed in the dark past the two headlands of Port Raa, and, looking up, I saw the lights in the windows of my husband's house, and the glow over the glass roof of the pavilion. What would happen there to-morrow morning when it was discovered that I was gone?
That . . . Good G But surely you know. . . ." He did not finish what he was going to say, so I told him I did not know anything, not having seen Lord Raa since I came to school, and everything having been arranged for me by my father. "Not seen him since . . . everything arranged by your father?" "Yes."
Eastcliff was so handsome and their tastes were so similar that she hoped I would invite him to Castle Raa as soon as I came back. "Mary, my love," she said, catching my eye, "I'm just telling her ladyship I don't know in the world what I'll do when you are gone."
I was feeling a little sick, nevertheless, and standing by the tire with one foot on the fender, when Lord Raa came up to me at the end, and said in his drawling voice: "So it's done." "Yes, it's done," I answered. After a moment he talked of where we were to live, saying we must of course pass most of our time in London.
This led me was it some angel leading me? to think again of Martin and to remember our beautiful and sacred parting at Castle Raa. "Whatever happens to either of us, we belong to each other for ever," he had said, and I had answered, "For ever and ever." It was a fearful shock to think of this now.
He was drenched through, but steaming with sweat as if he had ridden long and hard. Shouting above the roar of the storm, he said: "Doctor Conrad is here, is he?" "He is what of it?" said my father. "Tell him he's wanted and must come away with me at once." "Who says he must?" "Lord Raa. His lordship is dangerously ill. He wishes to see the doctor immediately."
I met him last night at the 'Horse and Saddle. 'Grand doings at the Big House, they're telling me, says Johnny. 'I won't say no, I says. 'It'll be a proud day for the grand-daughter of Neill the Lord when she's mistress of Castle Raa, says Johnny. 'Maybe so, I says, 'but it'll be a prouder day for Castle Raa when she sets her clane little foot in it."
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