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I will make this nefarious conspiracy of yours, for money, known. You have made money by it, but you have at the same time made an enemy by it. YOU will take good care that the money sticks to you; I will take good care that the enemy sticks to you. Then said I finally, 'Lady Fareway, I think my heart is broken.
After his departure, Lady Fareway wrote to me, representing the justice of my returning half my fee, as I had been of so little use to her son. Within my knowledge a similar demand had not been made in any other case; and I most freely admit that the justice of it had not occurred to me until it was pointed out. But I at once perceived it, yielded to it, and returned the money Mr.
Without such reason, to repeat it would have been mere boastfulness. Among those who had read with me was Mr. Fareway, second son of Lady Fareway, widow of Sir Gaston Fareway, baronet. This young gentleman's abilities were much above the average; but he came of a rich family, and was idle and luxurious.
He was well-looking, clever, energetic, enthusiastic; bold; in the best sense of the term, a thorough young Anglo-Saxon. I resolved to bring these two together. SAID I, one night, when I had conquered myself, 'Mr. Granville, Mr. Granville Wharton his name was, 'I doubt if you have ever yet so much as seen Miss Fareway.
Said I, with my utmost earnestness, 'Thank you, Lady Fareway, thank you, thank you! I should be deeply hurt if I thought I bore the character. 'Naturally, said my lady. 'Always detestable, but particularly in a clergyman. You have not said whether you will like the living? With apologies for my remissness or indistinctness, I assured my lady that I accepted it most readily and gratefully.
'For, said he, without my having spoken, 'I think the interview may tend to the advancement of your prospects. It put me to the blush to think that I should be tempted by a worldly reason, and I rose immediately. Said Mr. Fareway, as we went along, 'Are you a good hand at business? 'I think not, said I. Said Mr. Fareway then, 'My mother is. 'Truly? said I.
You have thwarted them, and overreached me; but I am not one to be thwarted and overreached without retaliation. Do you mean to hold this living another month? 'Do you deem it possible, Lady Fareway, that I can hold it another hour, under your injurious words? 'Is it resigned, then? 'It was mentally resigned, my lady, some minutes ago. Don't equivocate, sir. IS it resigned?
We had but a little way to walk, and I was soon in his mother's company. I saw in my Lady Fareway a handsome, well-preserved lady of somewhat large stature, with a steady glare in her great round dark eyes that embarrassed me. Said my lady, 'I have heard from my son, Mr. Silverman, that you would be glad of some preferment in the church. I gave my lady to understand that was so.
I had previously so contrived as to keep them asunder; for while I loved her, I mean before I had determined on my sacrifice, a lurking jealousy of Mr. Granville lay within my unworthy breast. It was quite an ordinary interview in the Fareway Park but they talked easily together for some time: like takes to like, and they had many points of resemblance. Said Mr.
Said I, in self-extenuation once for all, 'Lady Fareway, I have but to say for myself that I have tried to do my duty. 'For yourself? repeated my lady. 'Then there are others concerned, I see. Who are they? I was about to answer, when she made towards the bell with a dart that stopped me, and said, 'Why, where is Adelina? 'Forbear! be calm, my lady. I married her this morning to Mr.
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