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Between gasps, his voice growing fainter and fainter with each word, poor Lester told his story, of his love, his wooing and the climax which was to have taken place in two hours' time. Kendale listened with bated breath. To say that he was amazed, dumfounded, scarcely expressed his intense surprise. Armstrong, his poor plodding cousin, to strike such luck as to be about to marry an heiress!
In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game. Neither her father nor her mother nor anybody else either considered her feelings or consulted her wishes about the proposed marriage, except so far as it was to their own personal interest to do so.
"I became acquainted with her for when did a lover ever fail to discover the place which contained his mistress? and I found that this young girl whom I had fallen so deeply in love with was a great heiress." "Unhappy chance!" exclaimed the boy; "I understand easily that this threw an ignoble obstacle in the way. Her friends "
Had Walter and Richard taken equal care of their souls, and their estate, the first might have been as safe as in the hands of a priest, and the last, at this day, have been the property of that ancient, and once noble race of Arden, long since in distress; who, in 1426, married the heiress of their house. Thus, a family, benefited by the hammer, was injured by the church.
"Your newspapers are, no doubt, in the mail-bags," he said. "We had a good passage, and are a full ship. Of passengers I have two and ladies. One, by the way, is the heiress of Mattei Perucca over at Olmeta, whom you doubtless knew." The colonel turned, and looked towards the steamer with some interest. "Is that so?" he said reflectively. "Yes; a pinched old maid in a black dress.
The door was opened, and I found myself in the presence of Mrs Culpepper and her daughter, the heiress, as I afterwards discovered, to all Mr Culpepper's savings, which were asserted to be something considerable after thirty years' employment as purser of various vessels belonging to his Majesty.
She accordingly went to call on Madame Tiphaine, of whose reprobation she was conscious, in order to impart the fact of Pierrette's approaching arrival, deploring the girl's unfortunate position, and posing herself as being only too happy to succor her and give her a position as daughter and future heiress.
But Irène was already in her saddle. The governess continued: "The Comtesse expected " "Never mind that! And now, John, to the Château at once," said Irène, galloping off. "Who is that lady?" asked Bobichel. "Mademoiselle de Salves," a peasant replied, "the wealthiest heiress in the neighborhood." "A handsome girl!" muttered Bobichel. "She is too haughty to those beneath her," said some one.
Be it so. I suspect that I know where to look for her on what noble thresholds to set my daring foot; what fair lady, mindful of former days of girlish friendship of virgin love wraps in compassionate luxury Guy Darrell's rejected heiress? Ah, your looks tell me that I am hot on the scent. That fair lady I knew of old; she is rich I helped to make her so. She owes me something.
And fondly, jealously, selfishly as he loved this darling daughter of his age, he wished to see her safely married before he should be called from the earth. And certainly the beautiful heiress had suitors enough to select from suitors drawn no less by her personal charms than by her great fortune.
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