To this, Stephen consented willingly, as he would thus escape, for
a time, his mother's anger. And so when, tired, jaded, cross and
dusty, Eugenia Deane reached Locust Grove, she had the satisfaction
of knowing that her trip to the Springs had been successful,
inasmuch as it procured for her "_a husband such as he was_."
CHAPTER XXI.
THE DOUBLE SURPRISE.
The Deanes had been home about two weeks when Mr. Hastings
returned to Rose Hill, accompanied by the "Old South American,"
who seemed to have taken up his abode there. Being naturally
rather reserved, the latter visited but little in the village,
while at Locust Grove he never called, and seldom saw Eugenia when
he met her in the street.
Mr. Hastings, too, was unusually cool in his manner towards her,
and this she imputed wholly to the fact of her having been rude to
his friend on the night of her introduction. "He was never so
before," she thought, and she redoubled her efforts to be
agreeable, to no effect, as he was simply polite to her and
nothing more.
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