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With a whispered, "Don't let the cat out of the bag till I bid you, or you're not worth a cent," she stepped over to Lady Esmondet and Vaura, saying: "I'm sure you're too awfully surprised for anything to see me." "Not at all, Miss Tompkins," said Lady Esmondet. Here Sir Tilton came up, lifted his bat, while both ladies shook hands with him.
"I thank you for your sympathy, Lady Esmondet; but I fear yours would be the only vote recorded in my favor, so the 'Sphynx' must needs make us her own." "As she did many an unhappy mortal in days of yore, in her Theban home. I wonder if they looked as resigned in their martyrdom as poor Capt. Trevalyon does," said Vaura. "I used to think Oedipus finished her," said Trevalyon.
As for Vaura, she looked forward with intense pleasure to a lengthened sojourn in the immortal city; knowing life at Haughton under the present regime would be distasteful to her. "The gentleman from London, my lady," said Somers, entering and presenting the card of Mr. Huntingdon. "Very well; he is, I suppose, in our sitting room?" "Yes, my lady."
"Happy thought, my dearest boy; at my birth, Cupid, being short of hearts, sent word by Mercury that Vaura Vernon would have to go without, until such time in her life as she was able to win the hearts of some half dozen men; as it would take so many to make a good-sized womanly organ called a heart.
"He is just the fellow," said Douglas "to hail as a godsend disestablishment, when he will be compelled to graze in more palatable pastures." "Oh, when Church and State are severed, primogeniture will follow; then he will get a slice of the estate of the pater," said Vaura. "And for the younger sons a more comfortable dinner than of herbs," said Bertram.
On returning from a long ride one morning Vaura and Lionel found a gay party of callers chatting with Lady Esmondet; amongst them was Vaura's old friend, Robert Douglas.
"But 'tis hard for her," said Vaura, "a stranger in a strange land; can I do anything for her, write some of our friends to call upon her, anything, only tell me, the Claytons, are kind," and she is beside him in a moment. "You are very thoughtful, but Judith is extremely self-reliant."
"How changed the dear old place must be," said Lady Esmondet, as Vaura ceased reading, "I would that the place could have been restored by some other means, but if your uncle is content, I, needn't moan." "Whatever else may be said, one thing is sure: that Lincoln Tompkin's gold could not have been put to better use," said Lionel. Here Somers knocked and informed her mistress the carriage waited.
"Fie! Sir Tilton," said Vaura merrily, "acknowledge the compliment paid you, though our gay friends have had the Sphynx, they also have had time to long for our society," and as she drew near a few paces, Everly had time to say softly: "One thing to be thankful for, we did not miss them." "Small men make large boasts," thought Vaura amusedly.
Lionel had roamed about a good deal during the evening thinking much of a letter he had received that morning from Colonel Haughton, and of the love he was battling against in his own breast, for Vaura.
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