Well; I suppose you had
better see it," and with a gesture that was half shy and half defiant she
drew the lace shawl from her shoulders, and turned her back towards him
so that he might see what was inscribed across it.
Eustace stared at the broad line of letters which with the signatures
written underneath might mean a matter of two millions of money to him.
"Thank you," he said at last, and, taking up the lace shawl, he threw it
over her again.
"If you will excuse me for a few minutes, Mr. Meeson," interrupted Lady
Holmhurst at this point; "I have to go to see about the dinner," and
before Augusta could interfere she had left the room.
Eustace closed the door behind her, and turned, feeling instinctively
that a great crisis in his fortunes had come. There are some men who rise
to an emergency and some who shrink from it, and the difference is, that
difference between him who succeeds and him who fails in life, and in all
that makes life worth living.
Eustace belonged to the class that rises and not to that which shrinks.
CHAPTER XV.
EUSTACE CONSULTS A LAWYER.
Augusta was leaning against the marble mantelpiece--indeed, one of her
arms was resting upon it, for she was a tall woman.
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