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"I shan't think of politics for the next ten years, and so I don't trouble myself about the Duchess's parties, but I suppose I should go if I were asked." Sir Alured felt that he had not as yet begun even to approach the difficult subject. "I'm glad you don't like that man," he said. "I don't like him at all. Tell me, Sir Alured; why is he always going to Manchester Square?" "Ah; that is it."
But Alured lived, and every time she saw him she half hated him, half loved him; hated him as standing in her son's light, loved him because she could not help loving Trevor's shadow.
And then she sent a message to Arthur Fletcher. It so happened that Sir Alured Wharton was up in London at this time with his daughter Mary. Sir Alured did not come to Manchester Square. There was nothing that the old baronet could say in the midst of all this misery, no comfort that he could give.
He had a great ox in the Smithfield Cattle Show, and met our Lupton uncles there not as an unsuccessful man. And I? I had a dim feeling that Alured would soon cease to need me, and Jaquetta would not be claimed for a long time; and if But in the midst of that I saw a haggard face driving in the park by the side of a little, over-dressed, faded woman.
If ever there was a modern version of St. Dorothy's roses it was there. That boy's kiss and his gift touched the place in her heart. She caught him passionately in her arms, and held him till he almost lost breath, and then she held him off from her as vehemently. "Boy Trevorsham what do you come to me for?" "He told me," said Alured, half dismayed. "Besides, you are my sister." "Sister, indeed!
The men could not be kept waiting; and I heard Alured awake from his sleep, pattering about and shouting; and as we began to gather up our apples one of the maids peeped in with a table-cloth over her arm. Mr.
During the whole of that evening there was a forced attempt on the part of all the party at Wharton Hall to be merry, which, however, as is the case whenever such attempts are forced, was a failure. There had been a hay-making harvest-home which was supposed to give the special occasion for mirth, as Sir Alured farmed the land around the park himself, and was great in hay.
It was dreadful to him that the happiness of a Fletcher, and the comfort of the Whartons generally, should be marred by a man with such a name as Ferdinand Lopez. "She'll never marry him without her father's consent," said Sir Alured. "If she means it, of course he'll consent." "That I'm sure he won't. He doesn't like the man a bit better than you do." Fletcher shook his head.
I thought he was constant only out of honour and pity, and I did not choose to open my heart to understand his pleadings or accept them as earnest I was harsh. Oh, how little one knows what one is doing! Too proud to be grateful that was actually my case. I was enamoured of the blue-spectacle plan; I had romances of watching Alured day and night, and pouring away dangerous draughts.
The one idea that her boy was ousted by Alured, and the longing to see him the heir, seemed to drive out everything else from Hester almost feeling for her husband. Fulk had written to Francis Dayman, and he intended to come and see after his sister as soon as he could leave his business; but this rather precipitated matters.
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