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"So you will take these four meetings?" "Certainly!" Delia sprang up. "What are they? One at Latchford, one at Brownmouth Wanchester and Frimpton. All right. I shall be pelted at Brownmouth. But rotten eggs don't matter so much when you're looking out for them except on your face Ugh!" "And the meeting here?" "Of course. Can't I do what I like with my own house?
Naturally, he connected some of the haunting anxiety he perceived with Monk Lawrence, and with Gertrude Marvell's outrageous speech in Latchford market-place. But he himself, on the other hand, was not greatly concerned for Monk Lawrence. Not only he -the whole neighbourhood was on the alert, in defence of the famous treasure-house.
The girl's heavy eyes kindled to a mad intensity, as she stood looking at the hill-side, now almost dark, except for that distant light, which she knew as the electric lamp still lit at sunset, even in Sir Wilfrid's absence, over the stately doorway of Monk Lawrence. But she was not going to the Latchford meeting. "Don't give yourself away. Don't be seen with the others. Keep out of notice.
That would tame the anguish in her, and some day she would be strong again and come back to those beloved ones who had given her up so tenderly. The whole of Maumsey and its neighbourhood had indeed been thrown into excitement by certain placards on the walls announcing three public meetings to be held a fortnight later by the "Daughters of Revolt" at Latchford, Brownmouth, and Frimpton.
For he could see himself, and laugh at himself, ab extra, better than most men. At the station he came across Captain Andrews, and soon discovered from that artless warrior that he also was bound for Latchford, with a view to watching over Delia Blanchflower.
He knows how to manage it better than I." And in spite of protests from the two visitors he ran off again to see what could he done to better the light. Delia turned impetuously on her companion. "I know you think I have no business to be here!" Winnington paused a moment, then said "I was rather astonished to see you here, certainly." "Because of what we said at Latchford the other day?"
"What speech?" Gertrude was sitting erect now with queerly bright eyes. "The speech about Sir Wilfrid at Latchford." "What else does he expect?" "I don't know. But well, I may as well say, Gertrude to you, though I wouldn't say it to him that I I didn't much admire that speech either!" Delia was now sitting on the floor with her hands round her knees, looking up.
But Lady Tonbridge and Delia do their best to lighten the mild melancholy which grows upon her with age; and a little red-haired niece who came to live with her, keeps her old aunt's nerves alive and alert by various harmless vices among them an incorrigible interest in the Maumsey and Latchford youth. Marion Andrews and Eliza Daunt disappeared together.
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