Gowran.
CHAPTER XXIII
FRANK GREYSTOCK'S FIRST VISIT TO PORTRAY
Had Frank Greystock known all that his cousin endured for his comfort,
would he have been grateful? Women, when they are fond of men, do think
much of men's comfort in small matters, and men are apt to take the good
things provided almost as a matter of course. When Frank Greystock and
Herriot reached the cottage about nine o'clock in the morning, having left
London over night by the limited mail train, the pony at once presented
itself to them. It was a little shaggy, black beast, with a boy almost as
shaggy as itself, but they were both good of their kind. "Oh, you're the
laddie with the pownie, are you?" said Frank, in answer to an announcement
made to him by the boy. He did at once perceive that Lizzie had taken
notice of the word in his note in which he had suggested that some means
of getting over to Portray would be needed, and he learned from the fact
that she was thinking of him and anxious to see him.
His friend was a man a couple of years younger than himself, who had
hitherto achieved no success at the bar, but who was nevertheless a
clever, diligent, well-instructed man.
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