He had seen Lord Augustus who, though he could tell him
nothing else about his daughter, had not been slow to inform him
that she was going to the house of her noble uncle. When Morton had
spoken to him very seriously about the engagement he declared that
he knew nothing about it,--except that he had given his consent if
the settlements were all right. Lady Augustus managed all that.
Morton had then said that under those circumstances he feared he
must regard the honour which he had hoped to enjoy as being beyond
his reach. Lord Augustus had shrugged his shoulders and had gone
back to his whist, this interview having taken place in the
strangers' room of his club. That Lord Rufford was also going to
Mistletoe he heard from young Glossop at the Foreign Office. It was
quite possible that Glossop had been instructed to make this known
to Morton by his sister Lady Penwether. Then Morton declared that
the thing was over and that he would trouble himself no more about
it. But this resolution did not make him at all contented, and in
his misery he went again down to his solitude at Bragton.
And now when he might fairly consider himself to be free, and when
he should surely have congratulated himself on a most lucky escape
from the great danger into which he had fallen, his love and
admiration for the girl returned to him in a most wonderful manner.
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