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Yet even then he knew she was clever enough to extricate herself in some other way than this abrupt and brutal tearing through the meshes. Or was it possible that she really had any intelligence affecting her property? He reflected that he knew very little of the Desboroughs, but on the other hand he knew that Beverdale knew them much better, and was a prudent man.
"Then what what is your name?" said his mouth, while his eyes added, "O wonderful creature! How came you to enrich the earth?" "Have you forgot the Desboroughs of Dorset, too?" she peered at him from a side-bend of the flapping brim. "The Desboroughs of Dorset?" A light broke in on him. "And have you grown to this? That little girl I saw there!"
He was more than ever convinced that mother and daughter had forgotten their lineal Desboroughs, and he resolved to leave any allusion to it to the young lady herself. She, however, availed herself of that privilege the evening after her arrival. "Who'd have thought of meeting YOU here?" she said, sweeping her skirts away to make room for him on a sofa.
We've got a drawing ten yards long, that looks like a sour apple tree, with lots of Desboroughs hanging up on the branches like last year's pippins, and I guess about as worm-eaten.
"Then what what is your name?" said his mouth, while his eyes added, "O wonderful creature! How came you to enrich the earth?" "Have you forgot the Desboroughs of Dorset, too?" she peered at him from a side-bend of the flapping brim. "The Desboroughs of Dorset?" A light broke in on him. "And have you grown to this? That little girl I saw there!"
In compliment to what he understood to be the ancient faith of the Desboroughs he had embraced the principles of Roman Catholicism his motto, by the way, was Thorough and this landed him, shortly after middle age, in an awkward predicament. He had, in an access of spleen, set fire to the house of a client whose payments were in arrear.
"You know," she went on, opening her clear gray eyes on the consul, with a characteristic flash of shrewd good sense through her quaint humor, "we never reckoned where this thing would land us, and we found we were paying a hundred pounds, not only for the Desboroughs, but all the people they'd MARRIED, and their CHILDREN, and children's children, and there were a lot of outsiders we'd never heard of, nor wanted to hear of.
Desborough promptly, "that wouldn't do. You see," she went on with superb frankness, "that would be just giving ourselves away, and saying who WE were before we found out what THEY were like. Mr. Desborough was all right in HIS way, but we don't know anything about his FOLKS! We ain't here on a mission to improve the Desboroughs, nor to gather in any 'lost tribes."
Don't you know he is related to the Donovans?" "Impossible!" "Fact, my dear, I assure you, according to Mrs. Donovan, who told me that the De Novans and the Desboroughs were cognate Norman families, who settled in Ireland together, and have since frequently inter-married." "I suppose," said Mrs. Buckley, laughing, "that Desborough did not deny it."
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