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_Miss Cayley's adventures_ (1899)

by Grant Allen

Chapter V

THE ADVENTURE OF THE IMPROMPTU MOUNTAINEER

THE explosion and evaporation of Dr. Fortescue-
Langley (with whom were amalgamated the Comte de
Laroche-sur-Loiret, Mr. Higginson the courier, and
whatever else that versatile gentleman chose to
call himself) entailed many results of varying
magnitudes.

In the first place, Mrs. Evelegh ordered a Great
Manitou. That, however, mattered little to the
firm,' as I loved to call us (because it shocked
dear Elsie so); for, of course, after all her
kindness we couldn't accept our commission on her
purchase, so that she got her machine cheap for L15
from the maker. But, in the second place--I
declare I am beginning to write like a woman of
business--she decided to run over to England for
the summer to see her boy at Portsmouth, being
certain now that the discoloration of her bangle
depended more on the presence of sulphur in the
india-rubber bottle than on the passing state of
her astral body. 'Tis an abrupt descent from the
inner self to a hot-water bottle, I admit; but Mrs.
Evelegh took the plunge with grace, like a sensible
woman. Dr. Fortescue-Langley been annihilated for
her at one blow: she returned forthwith to common-
sense and England.

'What will you do with the chalet while you're
away?' Lady Georgina asked, when she announced her
intention. 'You can't shut it up to take care of
itself. Every blessed thing in the place will go
to rack and ruin. Shutting up a house means
spoiling it for ever. Why, I've got a cottage of
my own that I let for the summer in the best part
of Surrey--a pretty little place, now vacant, for