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Last night only, because you were at the ball, it was very, very wrong of me to tell you I was going there, as we went home, Lady Kew Go, sir. I never thought you would have seen in me this humiliation. Clive. Is it possible that I should have made Ethel Newcome shed tears? Oh, dry them, dry them. Forgive me, Ethel, forgive me! I have no right to jealousy, or to reproach you I know that.
"There are some persons who are ashamed of nothing, Madame la Duchesse," cries Lady Kew; losing her temper. "Is that gracieusete for me? How much goodness! This good Monsieur de Blackball is not very well bred; but, for an Englishman, he is not too bad. I have met with people who are more ill-bred than Englishmen in my travels."
It would be better than tossing about in bed, and afterwards he would go calmly to sleep. The difficulty would be to get out of the house. Probably Ah Kew was on the watch for his master, and, if he saw Dick, would remark "no can do", or words to that effect. Dick went to the edge of the balcony and looked over; it was not very far from the ground, but it was too far to jump.
When Galileo directed his telescope to the heavens, when Secchi and Huggins studied the chemistry of the stars by means of the spectroscope, and when Warren De la Rue set up a photoheliograph at Kew, we see that a progress in the same direction as before, in the evolution of our conception of the universe, was being made.
It extends from above Maidenhead through the metropolis to the sea, a distance from west to east of 50 miles, having a width varying from 2 to 9 miles. Fine sections have been exposed to view, at different periods, at Brentford and Kew Bridge, others in London itself, and below it at Erith in Kent, on the right bank of the Thames, and at Ilford and Gray's Thurrock in Essex, on the left bank.
I must get out of the way of paying visits in the country. They make one so discontented with the City afterwards. I've had a feeling lately I should like to have been a farmer.... Too much of the work of the firm has been thrown on you.... But there's lots and lots I want to talk over. I abandon Kew, willingly, and as to Major Armstrong.... However he can always find my address if he cares to..."
"I want your sister; I want dear Ethel for him, Barnes," cries Thomas Newcome, with a trembling voice, and a twinkle in his eyes. "That was the hope I always had till my talk with your poor father stopped it. Your sister was engaged to my Lord Kew then; and my wishes of course were impossible. The poor boy is very much cut up, and his whole heart is bent upon possessing her.
"Upon my word; my dear Colonel," says Lady Kew, after looking at him, and nodding her head shrewdly, "I think we were right." "No doubt right in everything your ladyship does, but in what particularly?" asks the Colonel. "Right to keep him out of the way. Ethel has been disposed of these ten years. Did not Anne tell you? How foolish of her!
There was no need to recall that now; but the Colonel's wrath against his nephew exploded in conversation with me, who was the confidant of father and son in this business. Ever since that luckless day when Barnes thought proper to to give a wrong address for Lady Kew, Thomas Newcome's anger had been growing.
At the same moment he remembered the motor tour. "Promise faithfully?" "Faithfully." "It's a lovely word faithful, isn't it?" she said, wriggling in her chair. "Yours faithfully is a most beautiful ending to a letter. Why is it that faith with a little F is such a perfect thing, and yet Faith, grown-up Faith in Church, is so tiring?" "Perhaps one is overworked and the other isn't," suggested Kew.
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