Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-08-21
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breakfast with you this morning; but If z
presume"
"Oh, Sir Philip" cried the old lady,
"you have such lot Of foreign palaverl L
wonder that you don't forget how TO speak
English. You cannot utter q sentence OF
good old Cumberland, know. lima, run
round and tell Robert to take Sir Philips
horse TO the stable. You have superb
horse, Sir Philip"
Giles a jewel In every way, Miss Durn-
ford" replied Darrell; and lima begged
to be allowed TO lead uassan to the stable
herself.
"Old darlingv she said, as Sir Philip
resigned the bride to her; and she would
have enyied Robert the charge of him il
the society Of the lord of the soil had not
been stronger attraction.
She ran back to the breakfast-room, and
went up to her aunt with a halEpenltont,
half-mischievous look
"Please forgive me for being late, auntie.
did not know how the time was going;
and should not have been here at all may
DO but for Sir Philip"
amy dear child, what do you mean?"
Darrell explained, and Miss Durnford
looked as Mortified rs If lima had actually
tumbled into the river.
"IIow did you leave the house this MORN
ing? There was not a bolt withdrawn"
81 got out of my window, auntie, and
cruwled down the creeper."
Darrell burst out laughing. Miss Durn-
ford was obliged to laugh too, though she
tried to look grave.
"You'll break limb some day, child"
she said. "Now sit down to breakfast"
81 won't do IL again till next time"
said lima, in an undertone, us she took her
seat.
Sir Philip sat opposite to her; and from
time to time she scanned him covertly,
watching him while he talked to her aunt.
and marking every change of feature,
and every infection of a singularly sweet
voice.
Sir Philip was as dark as q southern
Italian; his rich curly locks were Of the
blue-black hue not often seen In Italy, and
the delicate and statuesque chiselling of
his features was Italian rather than Eng.
lisli. Every line of his striking counten-
ance indicated strong passions and intense
pride; but pride seemed not inappropriate
to a man who bore so strongly the marks
Of gentle blood. But deep in the dark
eyes lay the shadow of the vague unrest
that overcast a life which nature and for
tune ought 10 have combined to make
bright and glorious.
lima thought that this man looked as II
he had stepped out Of some frame at the
Pitt Palace; He seemed to belong more
properly to an age in which swords right
ed wrongs. IL was no wonder that the
people considered him almost an alien; 10
one, could be more unlike the usual repre-
sentatives of great county families. Sir
cla
with the hues Of an Italian, clean-shayed
save for the soft moustache that shaded
the resolute lips, man OF courts and
cities, all but stranger in his native
country, his very speech giving, neither in
tone nor accent, the faintest indication OF
his birthplace. lie neither hunted nor
shot, or took any part in county doings,
being indeed an absentee. 1t was no Won
der that some Of the most superstitious
shook their heads and said that some
strange influence had presided at the hour
OF his birth.
'And do you intend" asked Miss Durn-
ford, after n short pause In the CONVERSE
tion, "to give lis your company for little
longer time, this time, than you did last,
Sir Philip"
lie shrugged his shoulders and answer
ed
al can hardly tell, Miss Durnford; 1
have no settled plans. am a rolling
stone, you know, and shall be us long as
live"
81 hope not"
ado you? Do you cherish the idea that
1 shall settle down and become a country
gentleman at agricultural shows? Miss
Costello, you see is laughing at the bare
notion"