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If the man that she loved was good and true why should he not marry her, although he was a kinsman of the Vanes and the brother of a woman whom Westwood held in peculiar abhorrence? For accident had revealed to him many years before the relation between Sydney Vane and Florence Lepel, and she had seemed to him then and ever since to be less of a woman than a fiend.
And, when the busybodies heard that Westwood had not objected to his child's marriage with Hubert Lepel, and had actually appeared to be friendly with him, they concluded that all parties concerned must be equally devoid of the finer qualities of human nature, and that a painful revelation of baseness and secret vice had just been made.
Then, after a pause, he said more calmly: "The light dazzles me! the place seems on fire now! Perhaps you will be kind enough to lend me your arm, Lepel." Mr. Lepel led him out; he had one hand before his eyes, which he gradually withdrew while speaking. He found himself in the middle of a group with a sly sneer on their faces mixed with some curiosity.
Nothing seemed easier to her just then. "But, dear me, Mr. Lepel," said Mrs. Rumbold, "there's no place for a child like that but the workhouse." Hubert stood before the Rector's wife in a pretty little room opening out upon the Rectory garden. Jenny had been left in the hall, seated on one of the high-backed wooden chairs, while her protector told his tale. Mrs.
"I have no idea, unless it was to see what it is like." "Well, but I like that!" said Hawes. "That is entering into the system. Let us see how he comes on." Mr. Hawes, Mr. Lepel and Hodges went to the dark cells; on their way they were joined by Evans. The governor took out his own keys, and Evans having indicated the cell, for there were three, he unlocked it and threw the door wide open.
What the world says is a very important thing, Cynthia." "I don't care for what it says!" cried Cynthia impatiently. "But I care not for myself, but for you. And we've got to pay some attention to it you and I and the man you marry, whoever he may be." "It will be Hubert Lepel or nobody, father." "It may be Hubert; but it won't be Hubert Lepel with my consent.
"Will you come in?" said Cynthia. "Mr. Lepel is in his room; but he means to get up this afternoon. If you will kindly wait for a few moments in his sitting-room, I am sure that he will be with you before long. I will speak to his man Jenkins." She had ushered Enid into Hubert's front room, from which the untidiness had disappeared.
The gossips were as is nearly always the case quite wrong, for one of the first men to extend a friendly welcome to Aberigh-Mackay when he arrived at Lahore on the 13th August, 1869, to take up his appointment of "Manager of the Government Zoological Collection" was Mr. Lepel Griffin, then the Deputy-Commissioner of the City and District.
'Tis women for quick thinking and quick acting where men are concerned; and, indeed, the look of astonishment Mrs Gunning gave as the three entered was inimitable, though already she had every particular set down in her mind. She swept the stateliest curtsey, and cast a rebuking maternal eye on her daughters, ere she addressed Mr Lepel.
The amiable and other idiosyncracies -personal and official of the late Sir Lepel Griffin, K.C.S.I., who, born in 1840, died on March 9, 1908, having retired in 1889 from the Bengal Civil Service, which he entered'in 1860 by open competition, and of which he was a distinguished ornament, are very well pourtrayed in this article.
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