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Aylmer and Miss Florence Aylmer," and then shut the door behind the two ladies. The widow walked nervously up the room and then stood confronting her sister-in-law. The elder Mrs. Aylmer had just risen from a sofa on which she had been lying. Mrs.
'He seemed rather carried away, I thought. There's a fascination about Aylmer. There are so many things he's not, said Vincy. 'Tell me some of them. 'Well, for one thing, he's not fatuous, though he's so good-looking. He's not a lady-killing sort of person or anything else tedious. She was delighted at this especially.
He could well understand that such a visit on her part would give a mortal offence to all the Aylmers. That tyranny of which Clara spoke with so much dread would be exhibited then without reserve, and so there would be an end altogether of the Aylmer alliance. But were she once to start for Aylmer Park, then there would be no hope for him. Then her fate would be decided, and his.
He could not bring himself to marry a wife out of Mrs Askerton's drawing-room, nor could he expect his mother to receive a young woman brought into the family under such circumstances. And Plaistow Hall was almost as bad. It was as bad to him, though it would, perhaps, be less objectionable in the eyes of Lady Aylmer. Should Clara go to Plaistow Hall there must be an end to everything.
After hours of absence, Aylmer reappeared and proposed that she should now examine his cabinet of chemical products and natural treasures of the earth. Among the former he showed her a small vial, in which, he remarked, was contained a gentle yet most powerful fragrance, capable of impregnating all the breezes that blow across a kingdom.
She need not go to Aylmer Castle to look for a home. 'You mean you would lend her the house? 'It is hers. 'I do not understand you, Mr Belton. 'It does not signify we will say no more about it. 'And you think she likes going to Lady Aylmer's? 'How should I say what she likes? Then there was another pause before Mrs Askerton spoke again.
'I think it safer to allow myself a little margin, aunt, because one has so many things to do. 'I suppose it is so with a gentleman, said Mrs Winterfield. After which Clara looked at Captain Aylmer, but did not betray any of her suspicions. 'But I knew Clara would come by this train, continued the old lady; 'so I sent Tom to meet her.
Whether malt, the franchise, or teetotalism be his rallying point, of course he is full of it when among his constituents. But it is not desirable that he should be full of it also at his club. Had Captain Aylmer become Prime Minister, he would no doubt have made Low Church bishops. It was the side to which he had taken himself in that matter not without good reasons.
'Then on what footing, Miss Amedroz, do you do us the honour of being with us here at Aylmer Park? 'On a very foolish footing. 'On a foolish footing! What does that mean? 'It means that I have been foolish in coming to a house in which I am subjected to such questioning. 'Belinda, did you ever hear anything like this? Miss Amedroz, I must persevere, however much you may dislike it.
But if any shifting emotion caused her to turn pale, there was the mark again, a crimson stain upon the snow, in what Aylmer sometimes deemed an almost fearful distinctness. Its shape bore not a little similarity to the human hand, though of the smallest pygmy size.
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