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Give Lady Calmady a great part and she will play it nobly. Let this come upon her from a mean, wet-nurse, hospital-ward sort of level, and it may break her. What we have to do is to keep up her pluck. Remember we are only at the beginning of this business yet. In all probability there are many years ahead.
But in redressing one wrong it too often happens that another wrong or something perilously approaching one must be inflicted. To save pain in one direction is, unhappily, to inflict pain in the opposite one. Honoria was aware how warmly Lady Calmady desired this marriage. She loved Lady Calmady. Therefore her loyalty was engaged, and yet
Thus did the bitter winds of truth, which blow forever across the world, first touch Richard Calmady, cutting his poor boyish pride as with a whip. But he was very young. And the young, mercifully, know no such word as the inevitable; so that the wind of truth is ever tempered for them the first smart of it over by the sunshine of ignorant and unlimited hope.
But his outlook was circumscribed, his desire to please abnormally large, and his sense of relative values slight. While that Lady Calmady should give birth to a son and heir was, after all, a matter of no small moment locally considered at all events. Brockhurst House rejoiced also, yet it did so not without a measure of trembling.
I am going to have just all that my money and position, and even this vile deformity for, by God, I'll use that too what people won't give for love they'll give for curiosity can bring me of pleasure and notoriety. I am going to lay hold of life with these rather horribly strong arms of mine" he looked across at Lady Calmady with a sneering smile.
Lady Calmady greeted him very gladly, but abstained from inquiry as to his doings or from comment on the lateness of the hour, since experience had long ago taught her that of all known animals man is the one of whom it is least profitable for woman to ask questions. He was here at home, alive, intact, her eyes were rejoiced by the sight of him, that was sufficient.
She walked on across the paddock rapidly, while the fillies, forming up behind her, followed in single file treading a sinuous pathway through the grass, the foremost one still pushing its black muzzle, now and again, under her elbow and nibbling insinuatingly at her empty jacket pockets. If only that horrible misfortune had not befallen Richard Calmady!
It was about this period that two pieces of news, each proving eventually to have much personal significance, reached Lady Calmady from the outside world.
"I desired enormously to see you," she continued. "But when you came in I grew shy. It is so with one sometimes." "You should use your influence, Lady Calmady," Mr. Cathcart was saying. "Unquestionably the condition of the workhouse is far from satisfactory. And Fallowfeild is too lenient. That laisser-aller policy of his threatens to land us in serious difficulties.
I should want just that myself, shall want it, when it comes to the last. He whimpered when Chifney carried him back into the Gun-Room." Honoria turned her head and looked Lady Calmady in the face. Her own was more than commonly white and very gentle in expression. "He died in the gray of the morning, with his great head on my lap.
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