United States or Antigua and Barbuda ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Tod says there are a good many hidden hereabouts. They used to find shelter at Luxmore." And that name set both our thoughts anxiously wandering; so that not until we reached the foot of the hill did I notice that the person had followed us almost to the mill-gates. In his empty mill, standing beside one of its silenced looms, we found the master.
"I can scarcely call it an election," returned John. He had been commenting on it to us that morning rather severely. An election! it was merely a talk in the King's Head parlour, a nomination, and show of hands by some dozen poor labourers, tenants of Mr. Brithwood and Lord Luxmore, who got a few pounds a-piece for their services and the thing was done. "Who is the nominee, Lady Caroline?"
Where is my mother?" The return of the son whom she had given up for dead brought joy again to the heart of Ursula, and her health seemed to revive, but it was clear that her days were now uncertain. Scarcely less than the delight in Guy's return was the discovery that his partner was none other than the new Earl of Luxmore, who, as plain Mr.
"Yes, yes; but that does not signify. I know nothing of Lord Luxmore I want to know what she is herself." John hesitated, then answered, as he could with truth, "She is said to be very charitable to the poor, pleasant and kind-hearted.
Also the baronet, whose ancestors were all honourable men and stainless women, found it hard to overlook a certain royal bar-sinister, which had originated the Luxmore earldom, together with a few other blots which had tarnished that scutcheon since.
"No, Lord Luxmore, allow me to introduce my husband." And, I fancied, some of Miss March's old hauteur returned to the mother's softened and matronly mien; pride, but not for herself or in herself, now.
In truth, there was no one unto whom we could appeal. Lord Luxmore, immediately after his father's funeral, had disappeared, whither, no one knew except his solicitor; who treated with and entirely satisfied the host of creditors, and into whose hands the sole debtor, John Halifax, paid his yearly rent.
"Love, perhaps another subject than our own affairs would be more interesting to Lord Luxmore." "Not at all not at all!" And the earl was evidently puzzled and annoyed. "Such extraordinary conduct," he muttered: "so very ahem! unwise. If the matter were known caught up by those newspapers I must really have a little conversation with Brithwood."
Lord Luxmore slightly frowned. Such transactions, as common then in the service of the country as they still are in the service of the Church, were yet generally glossed over, as if a certain discredit attached to them. The young lord seemed to feel it; at sound of his name he turned round to listen, and turned back again, blushing scarlet. Not so the earl, his father.
It was years and years before any one beyond ourselves knew what a near escape our little Maud had had of becoming Viscountess Ravenel future Countess of Luxmore.
Word Of The Day