She listened.
One footstep was heavier than the other--heavier and a little stumbling;
she recognised them, Frank and Richard. In that moment her heart
hardened. Frank Armour must tread a difficult road.
CHAPTER XI
UPON THE HIGHWAY
Frank visited the child in the morning, and was received with a casual
interest. Richard Joseph Armour was fastidious, was not to be won at the
grand gallop. Besides, he had just had a visit from his uncle, and the
good taste of that gay time was yet in his mouth. He did not resent the
embraces, but he did not respond to them, and he straightened himself
with relief when the assault was over. Some one was paying homage to
him, that was all he knew; but for his own satisfaction and pleasure he
preferred as yet his old comrades, Edward Lambert, Captain Vidall,
General Armour, and, above all, Richard. He only showed real interest
at the last, when he asked, as it were in compromise, if his father would
give him a sword. No one had ever talked to him of his father, and he
had no instinct for him so far as could be seen.
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