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Although advised that they could be sold to advantage if haste were not imperative, Gwynne, who had a large balance in the bank, determined to continue the experiment. Many acres of the ranch were profitably let, although by the month only, as pasture both for cows and horses.
Gwynne wondered if he should ever shake off the pall-like memories of the past week: the testimony before the coroner, in which every word had to be weighed as carefully as if life instead of the honor of the worthless dead were at stake, the reporters from the less dignified of the British newspapers, and the American correspondents, two of whom dodged the vigilance of the servants, entered the Abbey by a window, and took snap shots of the lower rooms and of the coffins in the death-chamber; the painful scenes with the women of the family, who had descended in a body; the wearisome interview with the family solicitor, in the course of which he had learned that he was heir to little more than the entailed properties; which must be let in order to insure an income for his three unmarried aunts, Zeal's five girls, and himself; the hideous reiteration of "your lordship" by the obsequious servants, that reproduced in his mind the slow deep notes of the passing bell, tolled in the village for his grandfather and cousin.
The three of them went on to London together, and there they remained a week, to the great disgust of Mrs. Grantly, and most probably also of Mrs. Gwynne. The minister was out of town in one direction, and his private secretary in another. The clerks who remained could do nothing in such a matter as this, and all was difficulty and confusion.
Her heart inclined chiefly to her niece, as being a woman, struggling alone through the world; whereas Harold, firmly settled in his curacy, would not need additional fortune. "Oh, but he does need it; you little know how sorely!" cried Olive. "Eh, my dear? He, a minister!" Olive drew back, afraid lest she had betrayed too much of the-secret so painfully shared between her and Harold Gwynne.
It was the drifting smoke that seemed to bind all together and make the city fit for humanity. Gwynne pointed to a spot far to the southeast, in the valley between Market Street the wide diagonal highway that cut the city in two, and ran from the ferries almost to the foot of Twin Peaks and the high mound known as Rincon Hill.
But Gwynne, in the depths of his swimming brain, had wanted something more, and Isabel knew that if he had slept as ill as herself, the doubt had more than once assailed him if she were anything more than a charming beautiful and clever creature, save perverse and egotistical; who would keep him distractedly in love with her, but leave the best part of him unsatisfied.
'She is a clever young woman, said Mr Jonathan. 'I was surprised the other day to find how much history she knew. As to Wales, she has it by heart, and is not wholly unacquainted with the antiquities of the country. It was quite a pleasure for me, Miss Gwynne, I assure you, to meet with any one who took so much interest in ancient lore.
Gwynne. "No, I guess I am buttin' in a thing I don't often do but I am off my stride to-night anyway, and I am doin' what I never did in all my life before. I guess it was them kids of yours and your missis. I know it ain't my business, but what are you goin' to do with yourself?" "I don't know yet," replied Mr. Gwynne, declining to be confidential. "Not goin' into business, I hope.
He also agreed that it was important to the success of the scheme both that Mr. Gwynne should be the president of the company and that young Switzer should be its secretary. Mr. Gwynne's earnest request that he should become the treasurer of the company Mr. Waring-Gaunt felt constrained in the meantime to decline. He already had too many irons in the fire.
"I shall get married when and where I please, and to whom I please, Mr. Gwynne." "In view of the fact that I am your brother, Viola, I would suggest that you call me Kenneth." "I have no desire to claim you as a brother, or to recognize you as one," said she. He smiled. "With all my heart I deplore the evil fate that makes you a sister of mine." She was startled.
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