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Chapter 10 THE ROYAL OAK.

Word Count: 2844    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

command one of the parks. They were looking westward, where the sky was all a-glow with the fantastic gold and crimson of sunset. It is quite a m

indow, or any other elevation toward the western sky beyond stacks of chimneys, roofs, and steeples, even th

arge, dark, grey eyes were gazing listlessly towards the splendid mists, that were piled in the west, broke the silence by a remark tha

sunset, which is so bea

think, something very pleasant in a good sunset; there must be, for all the li

different, for rather listlessly, and without

won't mope with you about the sky. It is a very odd taste, that fo

se, and deserted by Alice,

you know; I meant only that kind of thing that one feels when reading a bit of

ll understand. I heard a bit of news to-day-perhaps, Mr. Darnley, you can thr

ch I am very proud," answered the yo

t uncle David?" inquired th

derstand, very quietly; I mean, he has chosen to live quite out of the world, so we have no chance of hear

such a good man, or at least, what is better," sh

Mr. Darnley?" i

ove,

like

ike him," answered the young man warmly

who are not ashamed to be gratefu

e large, soft, grey eyes, and long dark lashes, how difficult they are to express! And the brilliant lips! Could art itself paint anything quite like her? Who could paint those beautiful dimple

ry about Uncle David

ou, Mr. Darnley, if it should

going to marry? I think it would

hether by adopting her as a child, or taking her for a wife, I can't tell. Only I never saw any one looking archer than Mr. Bro

he young lady

to meet anywhere a

I think, and very clever-but I don't know-I think she's a little ill-natured, but very amusing. She seems to have a talent for cutting pe

. Darnley, I'm afraid m

ian Darnley, partly to cover

nder-plot can be, where all is so romantic. Perhaps, after all, Mr. David Arden is to adopt the young lady, and s

Darnley laughed; bu

ay, is he still li

y good property. He was some distant relation, also; Mr. Brounker said your uncle, Mr. David A

" said Alice smiling-

ortunate Miss Maubray?" said Lady M

old one. I made her acquaintance at Mr. Arden's house. He is her guard

d Lady May. "I thought her pretty-and

Richard-is not Miss Maubray very pretty? We are making a plot to ma

le! You don't object,

urse, Uncle David need not be consulted, as he ha

y, and said a few words in a low ton

t been here, has he?" he added, as a lit

And what a charming person

mean-and when I was chess-mad, nearly a year ago and beginning to grow conceited, he opened my eyes, I can tell you; and Airly says he is the best musical critic in England, and can tell you at any hour who is who in the opera, all over Europe

s," said Alice Arden, to the secret satisfaction of her brother, whose enthusiasm was, I think, directed a g

yed sneer. "Do you like his style of-beauty, I suppose I should call i

, in a man, I think a great deal better-I mean refinement, and cleverness, and

at had ceased to agitate, but was at once pleasant and melancholy to remember-wrote these words: "She proceeded to read the first stanza, which was nearly to the following purpose. [Then follow the verses.] 'There is a great deal of it,' said she, glancing along the paper, and interrupting the

self agreeable (which he never does to me), it makes a difference, it affects everything-it affects even his looks. But I sh

one could be ugly with so much

ar, for Mr. Longcluse," said Lady May. "I'm s

d Arden. "It would upset him

ld have laughed, probably, and told her how much it became her. But she was, at that moment, going to her chair in the window, and Richard Arden would, of course, accompany her. He did see it, as distinctly as he saw

of which Alice, with a sort of haughty defiance, was consc

gh myself to give an opinion. But he makes his acquaintances ra

im very much. So far as I can see, people are very well pleased at knowing h

now your brother, for instance? Did any one introduce him? Nothing of the kind. Richard's horse was hurt or lame at one of the hunts in War

introduction than a k

no one has a right to push his services u

ed not have taken his horse if

no more about him than any one else. She had her f

ollect; but does it

it down to recover in a confectioner's shop, and so saw her home, and that affair was concluded. I don't say, of course, that he is never introduced in the regular way; but a year or two ago, when he was beginning, he always made hi

early resemble mine," said a clear, deep-toned voice close to them; and looking up, Mi

l, and whose ghost used to be seen pensively leaning on the pulpit from which he used to preach, too much thinking of the one beautiful face among his audience, which had enthralled him. I had left the enamel portrait I told you of at an artist's in Paris, and I wrote for it, thinking you might

You have had a great deal of trouble. It

Lady May had mentioned that he had not been with them till just twenty minutes ago, and Arden had told him that he had dined with his uncle David and Mr. Blount, upon the same business

e it has been to me to get it to show you. May I hold the lamp near for a moment while you look at it?" he said, indicating a tiny lamp which

Had Mr. Longcluse

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1 Chapter 1 MORTLAKE HALL.2 Chapter 2 MARTHA TANSEY.3 Chapter 3 MR. LONGCLUSE OPENS HIS HEART.4 Chapter 4 MONSIEUR LEBAS.5 Chapter 5 A CATASTROPHE.6 Chapter 6 TO BED.7 Chapter 7 FAST FRIENDS.8 Chapter 8 CONCERNING A BOOT.9 Chapter 9 THE MAN WITHOUT A NAME.10 Chapter 10 THE ROYAL OAK.11 Chapter 11 THE TELEGRAM ARRIVES.12 Chapter 12 SIR REGINALD ARDEN.13 Chapter 13 ON THE ROAD.14 Chapter 14 MR. LONGCLUSE'S BOOT FINDS A TEMPORARY ASYLUM.15 Chapter 15 FATHER AND SON.16 Chapter 16 A MIDNIGHT MEETING.17 Chapter 17 MR. LONGCLUSE AT MORTLAKE HALL.18 Chapter 18 THE PARTY IN THE DINING-ROOM.19 Chapter 19 IN MRS. TANSEY'S ROOM.20 Chapter 20 MRS. TANSEY'S STORY.21 Chapter 21 A WALK BY MOONLIGHT.22 Chapter 22 MR. LONGCLUSE MAKES AN ODD CONFIDENCE.23 Chapter 23 THE MEETING.24 Chapter 24 MR. LONGCLUSE FOLLOWS A SHADOW.25 Chapter 25 A TETE-A-TETE.26 Chapter 26 THE GARDEN AT MORTLAKE.27 Chapter 27 WINGED WORDS.28 Chapter 28 STORIES ABOUT MR. LONGCLUSE.29 Chapter 29 THE GARDEN PARTY.30 Chapter 30 HE SEES HER.31 Chapter 31 ABOUT THE GROUNDS.32 Chapter 32 UNDER THE LIME-TREES.33 Chapter 33 THE DERBY.34 Chapter 34 A SHARP COLLOQUY.35 Chapter 35 DINNER AT MORTLAKE.36 Chapter 36 MR. LONGCLUSE SEES A LADY'S NOTE.37 Chapter 37 WHAT ALICE COULD SAY.38 Chapter 38 GENTLEMEN IN TROUBLE.39 Chapter 39 BETWEEN FRIENDS.40 Chapter 40 AN INTERVIEW IN THE STUDY.41 Chapter 41 VAN APPOINTS HIMSELF TO A DIPLOMATIC POST.42 Chapter 42 DIPLOMACY.43 Chapter 43 A LETTER AND A SUMMONS.44 Chapter 44 THE REASON OF ALICE'S NOTE.45 Chapter 45 COLLISION.46 Chapter 46 AN UNKNOWN FRIEND.47 Chapter 47 BY THE RIVER.48 Chapter 48 SUDDEN NEWS.49 Chapter 49 VOWS FOR THE FUTURE.50 Chapter 50 UNCLE DAVID'S SUSPICIONS.51 Chapter 51 THE SILHOUETTE.52 Chapter 52 MR. LONGCLUSE EMPLOYED.53 Chapter 53 THE NIGHT OF THE FUNERAL.54 Chapter 54 AMONG THE TREES.55 Chapter 55 MR. LONGCLUSE SEES A FRIEND.56 Chapter 56 A HOPE EXPIRES.57 Chapter 57 LEVI'S APOLOGUE.58 Chapter 58 THE BARON COMES TO TOWN.59 Chapter 59 TWO OLD FRIENDS MEET AND PART.60 Chapter 60 "SAUL."61 Chapter 61 A WAKING DREAM.62 Chapter 62 LOVE AND PLAY.63 Chapter 63 PLANS.64 Chapter 64 FROM FLOWER TO FLOWER.65 Chapter 65 BEHIND THE ARRAS.66 Chapter 66 A BUBBLE BROKEN.67 Chapter 67 BOND AND DEED.68 Chapter 68 SIR RICHARD'S RESOLUTION.69 Chapter 69 THE MEETING. No.6970 Chapter 70 MR. LONGCLUSE PROPOSES.71 Chapter 71 NIGHT.72 Chapter 72 MEASURES.73 Chapter 73 AT THE BAR OF THE "GUY OF WARWICK."74 Chapter 74 A LETTER.75 Chapter 75 BLIGHT AND CHANGE.76 Chapter 76 PH BE CHIFFINCH.77 Chapter 77 MORE NEWS OF PAUL DAVIES.78 Chapter 78 THE CATACOMBS.79 Chapter 79 RESURRECTIONS.80 Chapter 80 ANOTHER.81 Chapter 81 BROKEN.82 Chapter 82 DOPPELGANGER.83 Chapter 83 A SHORT PARTING.84 Chapter 84 AT MORTLAKE.85 Chapter 85 THE CRISIS.86 Chapter 86 PURSUIT.87 Chapter 87 CONCLUSION.88 Chapter 88 No.8889 Chapter 89 No.89