"When the scoundrel knew I could lift my
pistol arm," Barnes said, "Lord Highgate fled the country;"--thus hinting
that death, and not damages, were what he intended to seek from his
enemy.
After that interview in which Ethel communicated to Laura her farewell
letter to Lord Farintosh, my wife returned to Rosebury with an
extraordinary brightness and gaiety in her face and her demeanour. She
pressed Madame de Moncontour's hands with such warmth, she blushed and
looked so handsome, she sang and talked so gaily, that our host was
struck by her behaviour, and paid her husband more compliments regarding
her beauty, amiability, and other good qualities, than need be set down
here. It may be that I like Paul de Florac so much, in spite of certain
undeniable faults of character, because of his admiration for my wife.
She was in such a hurry to talk to me, that night, that Paul's game and
Nicotian amusements were cut short by her visit to the billiard-room; and
when we were alone by the cosy dressing-room fire, she told me what had
happened during the day.
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