tailieunhanh - Lady Rose's Daughter A Novel

"Hullo! No!--Yes!--upon my soul, it is Jacob! Why, Delafield, my dear fellow, how are you?" So saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab, which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street, and hastily went to meet a young man who was at the same moment stepping out of another hansom a little farther down the pavement. | Lady Rose s Daughter A Novel BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD Author of Eleanor Robert Elsmere etc. etc. ILLUSTRATED BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY 1903 ILLUSTRATION AS THOUGH SHE LISTENED STILL TO WORDS IN HER EARS Frontispiece LADY HENRY LISTENED EAGERLY Facingp. 30 INDEED I WILL CRIED SIR WILFRID AND THEY WALKED _ _ 52 ON LADY HENRY GASPED. SHE FELL BACK INTO HER CHAIR 100 HE ENTERED UPON A MERRY SCENE 242 FOR MY ROSE S CHILD HE SAID GENTLY 254 HER HANDS CLASPED IN FRONT OF HER 356 SHE FOUND HERSELF KNEELING BESIDE HIM 480 LADY ROSE S DAUGHTER I Hullo No --Yes --upon my soul it is Jacob Why Delafield my dear fellow how are you So saying--on a February evening a good many years ago--an elderly gentleman in evening dress flung himself out of his cab which had just stopped before a house in Bruton Street and hastily went to meet a young man who was at the same moment stepping out of another hansom a little farther down the pavement. The pleasure in the older man s voice rang clear and the younger met him with an equal cordiality expressed perhaps through a manner more leisurely and restrained. So you are home Sir Wilfrid You were announced I saw. But I thought Paris would have detained you a bit. Paris Not I Half the people I ever knew there are dead and the rest are uncivil. Well and how are you getting on Making your fortune eh And slipping his arm inside the young man s the speaker walked back with him along a line of carriages towards a house which showed a group of footmen at its open door. Jacob Delafield smiled. The business of a land agent seems to be to spend some one else s--as far as I ve yet gone. Land agent I thought you were at the bar