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I shall sink into a dowdy, frowsy, shabby-genteel old maid for the rest of my life! It is detestable!" and she uttered a suppressed small shriek on the word, "It has been a hateful, abominable birthday! Everybody will be laughing at me up their sleeves! Think of Lady Larford!" This suggestion was too dreadful for comment, and Mrs. Sorrel closed her eyes, visibly shuddering.
Sorrel fidgeted uneasily in her chair. Other people were listening. "Really," she mumbled nervously "really, dear Lady Larford! you put things so very plainly! I I cannot say! you see he is more like her father " Lady Larford showed all her white teeth in an expansive grin. "Oh, that's very safe!" she said. "The 'father' business works very well when sufficient cash is put in with it.
I know several examples of perfect matrimonial bliss between old men and young girls absolutely perfect! One is bound to be happy with heaps of money!" And keeping her teeth still well exposed, Lady Larford glided away, her skirts exhaling an odour of civet-cat as she moved. Mrs.
Yet the name of Andrew Yarranton is scarcely remembered, or is at most known to only a few readers of half-forgotten books. The following brief outline of his history is gathered from his own narrative and from documents in the State Paper Office. Andrew Yarranton was born at the farmstead of Larford, in the parish of Astley, in Worcestershire, in the year 1616.
Sorrel sitting among a group of female gossips in a corner, and laid a patronising hand upon her shoulder. "Do tell me!" she softly breathed. "Is it a case?" Mrs. Sorrel began to flutter immediately. "Dearest Lady Larford! What do you mean!" "Surely you know!" And the wide mouth of her ladyship grew still wider, and the black eyes more steely. "Will Lucy get him, do you think?" Mrs.
A copy of the entries in the parish register relating to the various members of the Yarranton family, kindly forwarded to us by the Rev. H. W. Cookes, rector of Astley, shows them to have resided in that parish for many generations. There were the Yarrantons of Yarranton, of Redstone, of Larford, of Brockenton, and of Longmore.
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